Previous posts: (Apology) (Game Explorer) (Never Surrender) (Losing pt 1) (pt 2) (pt 3) (pt 4) I played at a <1600 rating for about a year and then one day woke to find myself in a higher bracket: the 1600+ world. Surely, I was untouchable by ...
Previous posts: (Apology) (Analysis Board) (Game Explorer) (Losing pt 1) (pt 2) (pt 3) (pt 4) It's just a game, after all. Games should be fun. If a game's not fun; resign and find one that is. Now, if you read my series on losing, you know I can...
Previous posts: (Apology) (Analysis Board) (Game Explorer) (Losing pt 1) (pt 2) (pt 3) (pt 4) I've been inviting people to help me revive a dying group - targeting international players who've been online recently. We've got about 70 members but ...
The Ohio Book Store at 726 Main in downtown Cincy made a purchase of a collection of chess books. This was several months ago. I don't look for chess books there very often because I was quite familiar with the two that they had. This collection ...
Previous posts: (Apology) (Analysis Board) (Game Explorer) (Losing pt 1) (pt 2) (pt 3) (pt 4) I just wanted to share a little cheatsheet that I made for my wife. (Flowers, Ha! Women want chess help!) It's an .odt made with LibreOffice. (I don't ...
Previous posts: (Apology) (Analysis Board) (Game Explorer) (Losing pt 1) (pt 2) (pt 3) I'm very pre-occupied with losing. I have a gift. The great thing about chess and other individual competitions is that you have one winner and one loser. In m...
Previous posts: (Apology) (Analysis Board) (Game Explorer) (Losing pt 1) (Losing pt 2) It's been a year since I lost my first game. 6 moves and I was dead. Let's look at it. It was a real eye-opener.Let's see what the monkey was thinking. Monkey ...
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....
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 account...
Previous posts: (Apology) (Groups) (Analysis Board) (Game Explorer pt 1) You may still be staring at that fantastic treasure of 1.5 million master level games in the Game Explorer. It is beautiful, isn't it? But, there's a catch. The catch is ...
Previous Posts: (Apology) (Groups) (Analysis Board)You may have noticed a button labeled "Explore" in the "Moves" tab or the Analysis Board. Depending on your game, this will take you to the "Game Explorer" for the current state of the game. To...
What has gone before: http://www.chess.com/blog/hop-along/bereshithhttp://www.chess.com/blog/hop-along/and-now-the-newb-ii So, you've got your game on and you're marveling at the beautiful interface. It really is - very intuitive and configurable...
The first post: http://www.chess.com/blog/hop-along/bereshith When I first joined Chess.com, I had the advantage of joining with someone I knew. This made it easy to learn the interface and get some games under my belt. I recommend talking someon...
I've been a member for almost a year now. I've learned a few things and I'd like to pass them along to other newbies and perhaps save them some grief. So, you griefers that just surf from blog to blog looking for someone to argue with - just surf ...
