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I played a very interesting game today with a great finish. Yes it's full of mistakes, most notably the pawn push at move 21 (I hadn't noticed that the opposition would be attacking my queen after taking the rook), but the main reason why I'm happ... | Read More
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Here is a puzzle from one of my games. In this case, I happened to see this before the game finished, and for a change, had a strong mate plan ready before the game finished.
Below, I've pasted a small analysis of the various possibilities for ... | Read More
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Note: Annotated games at bottom.
Sometimes when one is in the midst of an event, one can tell it is a special event. Gata Kamsky playing in this year's Marchand Open in Rochester, NY was one such occasion. Naturally, everyone was talking about Ga... | Read More
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Hello, and welcome to the final episode of “How to Make Master In Three Hundred Difficult Steps”. In previous chapters I’ve relived some of my more unfortunate losses, including roughly a half dozen disasters whilst on the brink on 2200 US... | Read More
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There are two types of chess players in my opinion; the ones that like to face weaker opposition and the ones that like to face stronger opposition. The latter often want to know what their first mistake of the game was. In chess as in life, thi... | Read More
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As he often does, Nakamura has incited alot of controversy with his comments in a reddit AMA that Fischer could not compete with today's top players because the game has so changed due to computers.
Both Grandmasters David Smerdon and Ben Finegol... | Read More
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Playing for Team Romania in an unnoficial thematic team match. This game was full of tactics potential and I really enjoyed it. The game started at move 3 at it was quiet until...move 9:
Is a game with a some blunders on my side, so I ... | Read More
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Hello, and welcome to the second to last installment of my increasingly epic saga of one man trying to somehow eek his way to 2200 USCF in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. In this episode I detail my experiences at the Oregon Summer Open of 2... | Read More
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Various vote chess games - public and in groups - are played in different models with different objectives. In this part 1 we will see the models adapted to deal with "drive-by" voting. (In the next part we will discuss certain models which can be... | Read More
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Fun game I had tonight after a bunch of shorter 30min games. I am working my way through re-learning 1.e4 main lines and gambits starting with 1.e4 e5, using the Scotch Gambit and the King's gambit to start. For all others, I am playing the Ki... | Read More
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LAST weekend was the BUCA Team tournament, a competition between teams of 4 players from some of the UK's higher-educational establishments. Durham uni's chess club, having grown a lot since its re-incarnation last year, managed to yield two full ... | Read More
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Okay, so I have not read Book 1 and Book 2 unfortunately as I grabbed this book from a shelf in a shop in Moscow, and they did not have anything other than Book 3. I guess they are popular! I will at some point buy the other books: Endgame Analysi... | Read More
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Today I took an important step – into the local chess club. I have been thinking about this for some time, but have not been able to find the time. More correct is probably that I have not found sufficient motivation. Nevertheless, today I took ... | Read More
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Previous posts: (Apology) (Analysis Board) (Game Explorer) (Game Explorer pt 2) (Losing pt 1)
There is so much to be learned from losing. You don't learn anything from winning. Winning's just a check-up..."Do you know how to beat this guy?""Yeah.... | Read More
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Another outing for the Yugoslav Attack against the Dragon, but this time with success! (See here for a recent loss against a strong opponent where I made a bad mistake midway through.) I was helped, however, by a blunder (albeit an understandable ... | Read More
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That was without a doubt my best win! The only factor that held me back from winning the game by checkmate was the time factor. Those last 20 moves were within the last 15 seconds or less. But how about that? It was truly awesome! (My ... | Read More
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Previous posts: (Apology) (Groups) (Analysis Board) (Game Explorer pt 1) (Game Explorer pt 2)
I passed an important milestone the other day - my 100th defeat! Unless you're one of those expert level players that continually creates new acco... | Read More
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There seems to be a reasonable level of interest in why someone would cheat at internet chess using a computer. To hopefully throw some light on the subject and, perhaps in part, to atone for my sins I'll confess my cheating and shed some light on... | Read More
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Hi. I would like to gather 100 positions with huge blunders in them. I'll start you off with this one (please number the positions):
#1
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In this game I was playing with black peaces, my tipical style is french defence and I used it pretty well. Pay attention how I distorted pown stucture of my oponent and then from move #13. Qa5+ started to attack aggressively.
This is an examp... | Read More