Hi all, I had a slightly random thought yesterday. I'm not sure why, but I found myself wondering "How many consecutive checks is it possible to deliver?" By this I mean, White gives a check and Black responds with a check of his own. My...
Hello all, In my previous blog I mentioned two wins and said that I may show them in a later blog. Well, the time has come! In both games I was a heavy favourite, so I'm lumping them in with yet another game I played as black last Thursday whi...
Hello all, By chance I've had five games in a row with the black pieces recently. It's one of those things that sometimes happens, and I'm absolutely okay with it because I actually scored very well from the run. It started with a first divisi...
Hello all, Looking over the last few blogs I've realised that I've been showing a lot of my wins. I vow to write about some embarrassing defeats next week; I don't want to create a false assumption that I'm a particularly good player. Having s...
Hello all, So I played a major in Harrogate over the weekend, and as the title suggest I ended up in a tie for first for the second time in a few months! I would be temtped to drop the 'lowly' from the blog title, but in the interim I had a co...
Hello all, I'm going to jump backwards in time from my last post. I've only played one game since (a rather disappointing and fairly uneventful draw) since my team got a bye in the cup. So I've decided to go back in time to the 21st-23rd of Oc...
Hello all, I've been toying with the idea of a chess blog for a while now. For the last three years I've played regularly in a local evening league and increasingly often in congresses too and I like to think I'm fairly decent at the game by n...
