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Hi,For my second blog entry I had a look at my very first major upsets (not counting timeouts/blunders etc). They are almost two years old and my chess.com rating was around 1550.While browsing my games I noticed that I almost exclusively scored a... | Read More
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[Blog History]
It's been a while since my last blog. There are several reasons for it, one being the struggle with my own health issues; the other has just been the ugly head of Steam and my computer games always coming to the forefro... | Read More
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Curiously, the first two selections both see the winning player as Ian Nepomniatchi as the beneficiary of unexpected blunders by GM opponents...in the same tournament. Obviously some of that is due credit to the pressure he exerted, but still, it... | Read More
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See what the computer analysis came back with in respect of my 'Knight Tour' game (see previous blog) . Pretty nearly all my 'brilliant' moves turned out to be blunders ! But it was very instructive to see what the 'silicon monster' had to say!
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White Lost on Time
Vanessa’s rating is much better than yours, but you might have tried to resist a little more. Sometimes even the best opponents make blunders.
Game type: Balanced
Equilibrium percentage: 92%, lasting for 78 moves
Opening use... | Read More
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Recently i lost in a game against a friend with which i use to have interesting games. As he said, the game was full of blunders. I played as i like - early attack and pressure on his kingside.
We both did 1 or 2 important mistakes which det... | Read More
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so i played Idrinkyourhealth in a 5 day game with black. the games speaks for itself, the entire thing was riddled with blunders. here it is.
BTW Idrinkyourhealths rating has decreased because of looses on time, and other reasons. I still can't ... | Read More
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No major blunders on my end. enjoy!
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My first ever blog!
I practice with Tactics Trainer and other tactics trainers, but still miss simple tactics . So, I've decided to make use of chess.com's excellent puzzle maker to post tactics puzzles created from mistakes made in my Live Ches... | Read More
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I entered the 'Major' section of the Leicester Congress (H E Atkins Memorial). The last chess congress I entered prior to this was the weekend after the Chernobyl disaster (google it; it really was that long ago!).
The Major is for ECF Grades b... | Read More
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I've been noticing that I'm using the analysis board as a crutch when playing correspondence chess and struggling with calculation. It's just so damn easy to click that Analyze link while playing to get a little help visualizing and calculating th... | Read More
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Thinking ahead is very hard for me, and mabye is for you, so I was thinking that viewers like you could give me and mabye other people advice on how to think ahead accuratly without making blunders. In other words, tips. | Read More
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I always seem to have a problem with blunders. I know some of you reading this have too, so how do you narrow the chances of making these annoying mistakes in a game of chess?
I want you to awnser this question by giving ways to solve this proble... | Read More
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Time to boost our egos and look at Grandmaster blunders.
We do it all the time, those stupid moves that throw away our heroic efforts. All we're left with is apoplectic self-agony and a memory burned into our soul. Fortunately for most of us, the... | Read More
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Lasker ruled the chess world for 27 years. Botvinnik was first among equals from 1948 until losing his title 15 years later with no chance for an automatic rematch, and Karpov and Kasparov dominated chess from 1975 - 2000, a quarter century. Since... | Read More
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An interesting game marred by a blunder - I think black failed to take into account white's move revealing a threat to the knight and visualise the position after castling. | Read More
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On ICC, played an 1840, and won due to an extreme blunder:
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I first published this on my blog today, which can be found here: http://thechesscoachingwebsite.blogspot.co.uk/
Magnus Carlsen with his trusty orange juice- the undisputed 16th world champion.
Finally a new era has... | Read More
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Hello Everyone again! Recently I went on a week long holiday. After returning, I feel that my chess has rotted quite a bit. I can't even hold my own with 1400s anymore. Today I played three 30|0 games with one particular player about my rating, lo... | Read More
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For my first blog, here is an interesting game I played against the Sicilian Defense. According to the computer analysis, this line of the Sicilian is refered to as B49: Sicilian Defense: Paulsen Variation, Bastrikov Variation. Never heard of it... | Read More