Although Brewood Chess Circle has never actively advertised it, (although that will be changing in the future) we are happy to help any young person who wants to do chess as their skills activity for the Duke of Edinburgh Award. It is good for th...
Although Brewood Chess Circle has never actively advertised it, (although that will be changing in the future) we are happy to help any young person who wants to do chess as their skills activity for the Duke of Edinburgh Award. It is good for th...
On Saturday 11th January 2020 I went to the local library where the local junior chess club was taking place. I have been before but not for a while and it was a good opportunity to catch up with some people that I know there. As I am the ch...
It is amazing how often this happens, in my games. https://www.chess.com/live/game/3145883312 https://www.chess.com/live/game/2869589907 https://www.chess.com/live/game/2845664049
Some more puzzles.
One of the things we try and do at my local over the board chess club is ensure that anyone has the opportunity to improve their game. The opportunitys for learning new things about the game of chess, never stop even if you have played the game f...
As well as playing chess I like to go through my previous games, regardless of the result. We can always learn something from our past games and although it is never too easy to go through a previous game that you lost and ask yourself and others...
I was black in this game and managed to win within 18 moves.
On move 3, white could have played cxd5, and then if Nxd5 4. e4 and a big pawn center and your Knight on the run. If you take with the Q, he plays Nc3 first and then probably follows up with e4: huge space advantage and your pieces scampering....
On chess.com the computer does not allow you to make illegal moves. But in OTB chess matches, there is no invisible force field that prevents players from making illegal moves, so games at club level sometimes do have illegal moves played in ...
As a very tense game reached its concluson, from the position shown, Roger's notation reads as the move plays. The comments come from Roger's analysis himself. Roger commented that instead of 6... Rf6, that 6... Qxd3 loses to 7 Rd2, although ...
This is the game between our own Mark Keady and Kim A Andrews from Wigan Knights Chess club, at the Blackpool Chess Congress 2014 - Intermediate Section, at the Imperial Hotel, Blackpool, played on Sunday 9th March 2014. This was roun...
This is the game between David C Dunne from West Nottingham Chess Club and our own Mark Keady, at the Blackpool Chess Congress 2014 - Intermediate Section, at the Imperial Hotel, in Blackpool played on Saturday 8th March 2014. This was round ...
My over the board chess "career" continued at the 2014 Birmingham Chess Rapidplay tournament on 12th October 2014. I finished with 2.5 out of 6 (2 wins, 1 draw, 3 losses.) I finished 21st out of 34. I was slightly disappointed to have finished ...
Here is another recent interesting situation that I got involved in, in my OTB chess "career" (please don't laugh.) Basically I am black in this game. The topic title is perhaps slightly true but also slightly misleading. Perhaps the topic...
Here is the chess.com article titled: "The Principles of the Opening - for Beginners!" http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-principles-of-the-opening Here is the chess.com page titled: "Study Plan for Beginners: The Opening!" http://www.ch...
