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I've just reached a new ratings high, and so I think I will take a break and try blogging for a while, because if I keep playing games I am bound to plummet back to my real rating fairly quickly.
Incidentally, there is definitely an intimidation ... | Read More
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There are many types of chess such as standard, 960, bughouse, blitz, and speed.
My favorite is 960. It is fun and mixes it up. My tactic is free the bishop or queen if they are near the sides.
Standard is fun yet if you play it too often, it is... | Read More
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And I'm off to a flying start which may splotch me on the ground in the next round (Let's not think of the next round). This event will be my ONLY DHLC event next week unless the Medieval Knights starts. How sad. Anyway, I will have to play standa... | Read More
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Alright, so round 4 of this quad, I was paired against DraggonZ, with the black pieces! He had a much lower rating, but with a FIDE rating of nearly 2200, he was clearly a better player than I, and just hadn't played many games in the Standard tim... | Read More
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Two Texas Tech Knight Raider teammates will square off in Chess.com's 14th Death Match this Sunday, May 19th at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, 10 a.m. Pacific.
The match could be the "Modesty Cup" as neither player gives himself a ringing endorsement in blit... | Read More
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I had this ending recently in a blitz game. It occurred to me that my opponent had a clear plan to draw. If he could sacrifice his knight for my g pawn and leave me with only the h pawn and the bishop, then the game would be drawn as I could not g... | Read More
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today has been a great day. i found a sweet cute love song & also defeated a tough player using a suicide variation which em so frickin proud of
uh & btw for those people who dont know, im just a player who in the past strived to get... | Read More
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Thank you for coming back to read my continuing series. The biggest change I have noticed in the last 17 years is that there are now fewer chess clubs and weekend events and participation is much lower. Why is this? There are many reasons includin... | Read More
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Hi everybody, today I'd like to illustrate how to handle time pressure, as well as how to play against it. Once again, I will demonstrate this by showing a few games played by the top level.
This is from the recent Candidates tournament. As... | Read More
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This is an interesting blitz game I played the other day as I tried to remember some of the openings I played years ago.
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I am having a terrible run recently, watching my blitz rating fall like a lead baloon. I have lost almost 100 rating points recently, through a combination of bad opening decisions and some serious blunders. I am hoping I can take some time out th... | Read More
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Well, EP and I played another pair of games of blitz for our battles, and EP has won his first game! I'm so proud of him! Anywho, I had also won another game. This was the first game out of the pair that we had played:
The second game was th... | Read More
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I have decided to make a new series of games called "The Blitz Battles" that I play with a very nice person and friend, Eternal_Patzer. You may know him as the founder of the Dan Heisman Learning Center, a great place to learn new things and talk ... | Read More
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Alright, so here's a change-up from the Slow Swiss! I recently entered a slow quad, which was halfway through, as a replacement for another player. The main thing that attracted me to it was that it was a Thematic Quad, based around the Modern Ben... | Read More
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The king pawn is bound for the middle of the board where an inevitable battle awaits. And, although possibilities for a promotion do exist (mathematically), it is a curse that even the queen pawn knows not how to resolve. So, like a sitting duck, ... | Read More
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Having been around organized chess for over 45 years I believe I am qualified to discuss this topic. It's going to be a pretty wide topic and I don't know yet how many parts this will become. What I do have to say should assist the ultimate goal w... | Read More
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Yesterday I got a trophy from chess.com saying that I had been a member for one year. I decided to make some "next year resolutions" and comment on what I need work on.
Before joining: I had recently gotten back into chess after about a 5 ye... | Read More
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It’s been a rough month for Bulgarian professional players taking part in major chess events held in my home country. The newly-fledged FIDE master Borislav Ivanov has taken on every GM and IM ‘daring’ to enter a chess tournament here in Bul... | Read More
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I want to send a shout out to this book as I was thinking about it earlier today. One of the first books I read when I was a junior trying to improve was GM Murray Chandler's excellent book Sicilian 2c3 and I was smitten. I took to this openi... | Read More