Online chess community where you can play chess, learn strategies and tactics, read chess news, see book reviews, find rules & tips, get free downloads, and more! http://www.chess.com/ 2007 Chess.com My blog is turning more and more into a personal Modern Benoni blog. Well, I guess there could be worse things. Last week has been one of my worst for a long time - fortunately only chesswise. After losing quite badly in the FICS teamleague, I c...http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/mb-reloadedThu, 09 Feb 2012 08:31:12 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/mb-reloadedThis is meant as a sequel to my former blog post: Defending against 1.d4 - the Modern Benoni If you are planning to take up the Modern Benoni, it is useful to invest some thought into how to arrange your defenses against other Closed Games around...http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/the-modern-benoni-and-your-repertoireThu, 08 Sep 2011 11:05:30 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/the-modern-benoni-and-your-repertoireMany players I have talked to used share a common uneasiness with me: What to play against 1.d4? Whilst everyone has his pet line against 1.e4, it seems hard to decide how to counter 1.d4. This may be partly due to the fact that many so-called clo...http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/defending-against-1d4---the-modern-benoniTue, 06 Sep 2011 02:57:09 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/defending-against-1d4---the-modern-benoniI have posted a rather long overview of the most frequent Anti-Sicilan lines from the viewpoint of a Accelerated Dragon player in a forum thread and thought I might want to share it with you here in my blog as well:   I agree with LavaRook that...http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/anti-siciliansWed, 02 Feb 2011 10:43:50 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/anti-siciliansI am sincerely sorry to everyone who has in some way been let down by my long absence: My opponents who probably expected to play a more or less interesting game with me, and most of all of course for my various team mates who have to cope with a...http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/mass-of-lossesTue, 30 Mar 2010 06:43:13 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/mass-of-lossesHi everyone, this weekend I had my first serious otb game against a strong opponent for four years. Fortunately, online chess practice and ANCL have kept me from getting too rusty, and I even managed to pull off a win to settle the final score of...http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/back-to-otbTue, 26 Jan 2010 15:17:29 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/back-to-otbI guess everybody has heard or read that you shouldn't be grudging your own mistakes, as there is always something to be learnt from them. And consequently playing through your lost games is supposed to yield some improvement as well.   How oft...http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/learning-by-mistakesWed, 21 Oct 2009 04:37:32 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/learning-by-mistakesRecently I posted my first serious game with a long time control for 5 months. On Sunday, 14th of December, this team round finished, and after some heroic defensive deeds of my teammates we managed to turn the tables and moved from being 0-2 behi...http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/team-playing-is-funMon, 15 Dec 2008 02:06:38 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/team-playing-is-funYesterday I played may first online team game for five months. After the long break I was happy to play again, and even got fortunate in that my opponent chose an opening line which has a bad reputation. Consequently I managed to pull of a nice wi...http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/playing-chess-againSat, 13 Dec 2008 11:16:17 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/playing-chess-againThe English Opening 1.c4 is the youngest of the established openings - it was taken seriously only after Mikhail Botvinnik used it with great success in the 1950ies, although it has already featured in the repertoire of world class positional play...http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/english-teaching-tournament2Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:36:10 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/english-teaching-tournament2Hi everybody, this is my first try to post game, so please forgive me if the game in itself is not very substancial. Tonight I played a 16 minute game instead of the usual blitzes, thus producing a game which at least might be suitable for postin...http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/my-first-blog-entryFri, 29 Feb 2008 14:35:42 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Torkil/my-first-blog-entry