I have correctly solved 6000 puzzles on chess.com! I have attempted a little over 11,000 puzzles to reach this illustrious level. I started solving puzzles back in January of 2020 when I first became a member of this site. I quickly realized back ...
I cant believe it! I finally reached a 2000 puzzle rating. I'm sitting at 2007 officially. I first started doing puzzles on this site about two and a half years ago and had a rating of about 350. I had no idea how to play chess or how to solve puz...
Happy Independence Day to all of my American friends! Independence Day (also the Fourth of July) is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the Declaration of Independence, which was ratified by the Second Continental Congress on J...
These Memorial Day quotes are dedicated to the brave men and fallen heroes who paid the ultimate sacrifice to keep America free. “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” – General Geor...
Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family or individual, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on different days in many parts of the world, most commonly in the mont...
I want to wish all of my chess.com friends a great Easter! May your day be filled with love and happiness. “Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”― Pope John Paul II
I finally reached 1900 on my puzzle rating! I am currently sitting at 1904. It has been a difficult journey to achieve this rating. I started with a rating of about 350 just over two years ago. I floundered around that level for a while until I fo...
It with great pleasure that I announce that I have successfully solved 5000 puzzles on chess.com. I have my puzzle rating up to 1889 which is also a number that I am proud of. It has taken me 26 months to solve that many puzzles primarily due to m...
What a glorious day! Spring has finally arrived. That means that we managed to power through another ferocious winter. I love Spring. Its a great time of the year. Its not cold anymore, its not too hot, and all of the trees and flowers and grass s...
Happy St. Patrick's Day to all of my chess.com friends! One question that I have always had about this holiday is what do Leprechauns have to do with St. Patrick's Day? So, I decided to do a little bit of research on the subject. St. Patrick’s ...
I would like to wish all of my American friends a happy Presidents Day! Its a sacred day each year that we celebrate the lives and accomplishments of our United States Presidents. It was originally established as a national holiday in 1885 to cele...
After a long hard week of playing many chess games I have been officially promoted to the Crystal Division! I finished third out of a field of 50 strong candidates. You have to finish in the top five of the Silver division to promote to the Crysta...
I was just promoted to the Silver division!! I would like to thank my family, my friends, my sponsors, and my promoters. May the chess Gods continue to give me guidance and determination! For those of you that dont know how the league works you s...
Today is my 2 year anniversary of becoming a Diamond member on chess.com. It all began when I was online casually looking for a site to play chess on. I never realized that I would stumble across a website that captivated my attention so rapidly ...
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." King is the only non- U.S. President to have a national holiday in his name. The Martin Luther King Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C. wa...
I just want to wish all of my chess.com friends a happy new year! The last couple of years has been very rough for most of us due to the worldwide pandemic. Through all of that I believe that chess has allowed me to stay focused and to keep my min...
Today I correctly solved my 4000th puzzle on this site. Thats a lot of puzzles! I first joined this site twenty three months ago and started slowly with the puzzle solving because I wasn't sure if it was of any value to me as a student of the game...
The Knowledge Club like a pack of wolves have defeated the powerful Philippines Finest Chess Club in a vote chess game. It was a heroic performance by our club to come back and gain the victory. The game started on April 28th of this year and ende...
I am very pleased to announce that I have finally obtained a puzzle rating of 1608! I have worked very hard to get here and will continue my efforts to improve going forward. Early last year I took up chess for the first time in my life and had ve...
I am happy to announce today that the Knowledge Club has taken another victory in a vote chess game! We had lost several games in a row, so this victory has got us back on the right track. We defeated the powerful "Chess School" who had 151 people...
I wanted to continue my discussion from yesterday about my favorite opening the Catalan. It starts with a queens gambit and quickly morphs in to a kingside fianchetto. In the sequence of moves that I show on the board below white has several advan...
My favorite opening is the Catalan. I took a 10 part online video lesson from Grand Master Georg Meier on the opening and was captivated by it. The Catalan opens with the queens gambit and then quickly morphs into a kingside fianchetto which creat...
This was the best Christmas I have ever had! Santa stopped by my house about 7 o'clock this morning and asked if he could come inside because he was cold and tired. I said of course Santa come on in. I made us hot chocolate and we sat for about an...
Hello to all of my friends out there on chess.com. Today I want to talk about our new project that we are putting together in the Knowledge Club. We have decided that we want to start having intermediate level blitz tournaments in the near future ...
Wilhelm Steinitz (May 14, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was an Austrian and later American chess master, and the first official World Chess Champion, from 1886 to 1894. He was also a highly influential writer and chess theoretician. When discussing che...
