I've this friend of mine, which is only playing occasionally, but plays very strong. My overall stats against him are 2 wins, 5 losses. Before this game I mostly forced tactical positions on him, which he handled rather well (like Kings-Gambits o...
When I first hit 1800 on this website, around 2 years back, the first thing I did was enter a 1800-2000 tournament. I believe at that time I had a breakthrough rating-jump in the tactics trainer, and I wanted to really get a good test on my "new a...
In one of his videos GM Yasser Seirawan advised, that the way to get better at chess is to present detailed analysis to stronger player. Thus I present a game where I lost. It's a game in which I didn't perform very well, but its still very much ...
Just finished a sharp game where I learned a lot :). After some fire I ended up with a rook and 6 pawns against two knights and 4 pawns, enjoy. To think that a year ago, I always thought endgames are boring :) The image credit goes to ...
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...
Hi,I started a little over two years ago with a rating around 1300 on chess.com, and I'm quite pleased with my progress so far. Recently I started to analyse my own games and I thought I might as well share my work with others.A lot of players fin...
