It's been a while since I have done one of these. This one is tricky for sure. "I find it quite fun to search a chess board to see if a certain position is legal or not. And by legal, I mean it is a something you can find in a normal game. Is th...
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It's a race! It's a triathlon! Go go go! Which opponent can push their pawns hard enough to be promoted first? The fast pawns get the promotion! But seriously. I have seen way too many games go by where either me or my opponent overlook the posit...
Hi! Let's go over the most coolest, most funniest, most amazingly awesomesaucy chess opening names in the entire 3000 year history of chess! I picked my top ten after going to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_openings and going through...
When I was just starting out in chess, I was barely able to beat people rated 900 on this chess site. 900! Thats very very low. But slowly, and with much practice, after about 1000 games of chess with little opening/defense knowledge, I was able t...
So you guys have figured out every one of my puzzles so far! It's impressive, so I might need to step up my game! But for now, lets keep it cool and fresh with a natural puzzle. Should be easy to find the missing legal move, even for beginners. H...
So I was flicking through my apps on my iPod, just wondering what amazing application I could play with next, and I stumbled upon my prized board game app: Mastersoft. It's a nifty lil chess app that has mucho features and plenty of extra's includ...
An extremely simple puzzle, yet slightly offsetting. It will be a bit of a challenge for some to figure out how this position is either legal or illegal, but I bet someone will solve this conundrum. Just gotta figure out the correct sequence, bec...
Last puzzle, you guys were able to spot the mistake quite quickly, and even though it had a small flaw, it was not exactly realistic. But nonetheless, I made a mistake, so I have come back with a newer, more difficult challenge! I have now perfect...
I find it quite fun to search a chess board to see if a certain position is legal or not. And by legal, I mean it is a something you can find in a normal game. Is this position able to happen in an actual game? In other words, is this position leg...
You know what to do! Solve it with tactical and logical analysis! This is one of those puzzles that will help those who are 1200-1500 rating and wishing to improve to higher ratings. This is a beginner-intermediate puzzle. It is slightly tricky, b...
Well, I have went though plenty of analysis and searched through dozens upon dozens of games with 2 rook v. 1 queen games. And I have come to a slightly undazzeling conclusion... The position is equal! Literally, perfectly equal. Like, you could ...
Below is a game I literally just played 5 minutes ago. If you go through my live game archive, you will know which player fell to my almighty lightning fast reflexive prowess. I don't want to mention any names, due to "embarrassment. However, I ...
Chess is all about strategy and tactics. Any experienced chess player can tell you that! So it is important to keep your tactical skills sharp and your logical puzzle solving active at all times during a game! I have studied chess, played chess,...
I was quite intrigued at the thought of blindfold chess. I was viewing YouTube videos about chess, and something caught my eye: Blind Fold chess. I was watching GM's playing chess with a blind fold on! It was incredble! For the first time in my li...
First time in my analyzed game collection, I finally snatched a rarity from my Live Chess games Archive. A game that has no blunders! Almost always, a game of mine has at least one blunder. Just one, usually in the endgame. Sometimes I have dozens...
They say chess is war between two human minds, clashing enormous amounts of mental energy with every single move on an epic scale of proportions. Now, step it up to bullet chess. Bullet chess is, by definition, chess played within very strict s...
"You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one." - Mikhail Tal (The video above is sufficient evidence of Mikhail Tal's hilarious/destructive psychological ...
I recently bought a chess app on my iPod Touch for just 99c. The app was called Mastersoft Chess (V1.30) and I bought it the moment I had the money. Not to promote anything, but this app is amazing. It has many features, yada yada yada, and I had ...
My second blog post on a chess opening. I would of easily chosen to write about King's Indian games or the various Sicilian variations. But today, I would like to indulge in an opening I saw that really hit home. This opening is very sneaky, seemi...
Happened a few days ago. I beat someone with the title CM. Over 2000 rating. Bullet chess. I am strong ^^ I was fed up with the amount of times I lost games due to time, so I enabled auto move I was done with horrible openings that I developed, s...
It's CuzinVinny again, and tonight I would like to share an interesting match, perhaps my strongest game of chess. Not my strongest in my entire history, but definitely my strongest game of chess with the control time of 10 minutes. I usually play...
Hello all. Writing to you live during the Lunar Solar Eclipse of December 21st, 2010 in the midst of the Winter Solstice, I bring you the weirdest game of chess I ever played tonight. Perhaps it was caused by...the Lunar Eclipse! For those readi...
