Hello Chess.com! Just a quick announcement that my YouTube Channel is active again after a several month hiatus. I will be posting both older videos that never made it online as well as new material, mostly rapid games and some game analysis a...
In the first part of this post, I described a night at a local chess club where I missed some chances and only scored 0.5 / 3. It was demoralizing at first, but I think I took the right lessons from it, returned with confidence and won 8 out of 9 ...
This is going to be a two part post, and also probably the last post I will make at this blog. It takes time to write for a blog post, and between my newly expanded family and professional responsibilities, I simply don't have the time to spare. I...
Bullet is evil. I really should stop playing; I am not very good, not quick enough, and have too many connection issues and bad mouses. It's probably terrible for my slow chess, reinforcing tons of bad habits. But I can't stop; it's fun, addicti...
In a previous post, I announced my new youtube channel, in which I posted some videos of myself playing chess on chess.com After taking the time to make a few videos, I gave up, since it seemed difficult to continualy post new material. I didn't ...
A few weeks ago, I made my first trip to the Westchester Chess Club, which holds regular meetings on Thursday evenings (8pm) at the Trinity Lutheran Church on 25 Crane Road, Scarsdale NY, 10583. I went during a casual game night; other nights tak...
I was fortunate enough to see an advanced screening of the new movie "Pawn Sacrifice", based upon Bobby Fischer's life and the 1972 World Championship. (The advanced screening is one of the benefits of being an AMC Stubs Member) Overall, both me a...
After a long break from blogging and only playing sporadically, I am happy to share a game I played in a recent rapid tournament at the Marshall Chess Club. Although it isn't my cleanest win, it is certainly my biggest, taking down a player rated ...
I'd like to announce my new YouTube channel, devoted to 'vlogging' or Let's Play style chess videos. In these videos, I play blitz or bullet on chess.com while recording the game and my own live color commentary. I'll be posting at least one vide...
Below is a Pirc defense game (Holmov variation) that I recently played. It was a see-saw battle against what was at the time the strongest player I think I have faced OTB in regular time controls. Despite the loss, I was happy with the way I playe...
Hello fellow Pawn Pushers, I am relocating this blog to the Blogger service. Chess.com has served me well, but I have decided to take things in a another direction, and wanted more control over my layout. At the new blog, Science on the Squares,...
Recently, I took part in a thematic tournament here at chess.com where everygame started with the Grivas Sicilian. For the uninitiated, the Grivas Sicilian starts with the moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Qb6, leading to the following posi...
Last night, I attended the Bayshore Chess Club, located at the Bayshore-Brightwaters Public Library. The library is small but very elegant, and the club itself is a relax environment with some good players and nice people. The free coffee and prox...
It's been a long while since my last blog post; this is result of both being busy with work and other obligations, as well as a desire not to broadcast over the web my tournament games in advance of the 2012 Manhattan Open. I played in both the L...
Recently, I played a game against marecek7791, who ended up losing due to account closure. It started as an interesting game, going down a main line of the Sveshnikov Sicilian, which I have been trying to learn. The game started thus as 1.e4 c5 2...
Here is the game I played in the 5th and final round of the LICC May Open. I had a clearly winning position out of the opening, but somehow ran into a poor endgame. I think I was on autopilot as the game progressed and failed to sense the danger o...
(For anybody that reads my posts regularly, I apologize for the delay in the updates. I have been quite busy lately.) The LICC May Open was an interesting tournament for me; It started with some confusion, as I took a bye in the first round bu...
Below is the game I played in the 5th and final round of the LICC March Open. Up to this point, it was a pretty good tournament for me, with one win, one draw, one loss, and one win coming in the form of a bye. I stood with 2.5 points, with the po...
It looks like my luck ran out. I played a tough game against an opponent that previously beat me (in the last tournament). Although I wasn't positionally dominated like I was in my first encounter with him, I still lost.
The lucky streak continues, as I win in convincing fashion against my opponent in the third round. This match is featured in a FiOS1 News pieces (I'll link to the video in the comments eventually).
After winning the lower class prize in the LICC Winter Open, I decided to try my luck again and play in the LICC March Open (Similar format). The luck started right away, as I was awarded a point in the first round since we had a odd number of pla...
I have been delayed in analyzing and posting the result from the final round the LICC Winter Open. It is below with light comments. I've become to lazy to input the moves into Scidlet, so I generated the above using Chess.com's own editor. ...
Tonight at the LICC I had a pleasing win over an opponent that I actually played a blitz game against after my game in round one (I won the blitz game on time, but mostly because he became distracted). Apparently I will need to get a meatball her...
Another week, another loss. Hopes for a 3 win comeback have been dashed now. In my first game of the tournament as Black, I reached a decent position out of the opening, and decided to concede a space advantage to White on the kingside for play o...
Hello, Here is my game in the 2nd round of the Winter Open. Despite a head cold, I thought I did OK considering that my opponent was rated in the mid-1900s. However, OK doesn't bring home the bacon against strong opposition, and I eventually lost...
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