Recent Games of 2021
Game 2 of World Open Philadelphia.
Southwest Open 2020
Does anyone know how to retrieve games you've manually put into chess.com and saved the analysis for? Game 4 Game 5
Michigan Open
I haven't played a tournament in a long time. My boyfriend Jeremy came to visit me in Michigan so we decided to enter the Michigan Open. I just finished my first game and it...was awful. I blundered so nastily twice. The second time, I already c...
Game 4 - A Najdorf with Tianwen
This is my third time playing Tianwen but our first rapid game. She pointed out that we always get paired in our final round. Once at ACC, once at the Turkey Shootout in San Antonio and then yesterday.
Game 2 of Rapid at Courtyard Austin A French!
Game 2.
A Scheveningen.
This was a fairly uneventful game, in my opinion.
September Has Arrived wi
My first games in a month. First is an awful Scandy. 2 mistakes. Very sloppy game. Second is a very short-lived Ponziani. I haven't played in ages so I couldn't recall even basic responses.
My New Blitz Record - 1351!
This was a messy and odd Sicilian 3/0 game but had none of the usual Sicilian themes or strategy? My Best Move % is 56% which i like. My opponent was 47%. I remain puzzled when an opponent at this rating plays a Sicilian but then doesn't finish ...
4th Austin Chess Club Something or other. 2018
As usual, Lori was a magnificent TD for the tournament. It was a pleasure to see Drew, as always. I had been kind of checked out of chess for the past 4 months. Not quite sure why but I was...on my twitch channel, I had people giggling that I d...
Caution: Tacticals Ahead - Move Order Nightmares that Baffled Me Today and My Self Analysis.
https://www.chess.com/tactics/177587 - 1779 when i did it. This is the type of puzzle I call "Move Order Nightmare". Looked like a hot mess to me. How do you find the first move? https://www.chess.com/tactics/156944 - 1876 This one did n...
My Highest Blitz Rating Since June 2009!
My Jeremy told me to try to beat my highest rating. I was like...what's my highest...and I saw that I was at 1330 and my highest ever was 1335...and then I got itchy...I wanted a new highest ever rating but was a little intimidated. I just got b...
The 3 games to my 1300 Blitz!!
Two of these are miniatures!! After this game...I was like...awww, let's get to 1300!! hehe. I've had a nice day of games. I immediately sent them to Jeremy and Todd and demanded attention for them! hehe. In this last of the 3, ...
Blitzy since getting back from Southwest Classic
My blitz has gone up about 80 points since returning from my last tourney. It's strange and I don't want to get ahead of myself but I think I'm pruning faster. I'm posting this one because it says zero innaccuracies, zero mistakes, and zero blu...
President's Day Southwest Classic in DFW
I've already some painful games...I'm putting the Southwest Classic Games here for posterity. My opponent seemed all too excited after the first game to tell me how rare his Nimzowitsch line was. Apparently this can sometimes transpose into an o...
Bullet!! For those in the know ;)
So...I was having fun fooling around and couldn't help myself. Here are two hilarious bullet games in which I had no business getting any advantage...enjoy!
8th Annual Austin Chess Club Championship 3.5/5
So, I'd like to start with a little personal note. I loved my interactions with little Kalia and Tianwen during and after their games...they are hands down some of my favorite to watch. I've played them both and it was a treat to watch them pla...
I did not execute this 10 move French perfectly but it was still quite fun!
I carelessly premoved early in the game but it worked out thanks to Black's f5. Instead of 8. Bf4, I should have directly played Nc4+ but I only saw it the move after.
North American Open - My first win here...
So, I'm in lovely weather here in Las Vegas...I've successfully harassed Sam Sevian to be my Mixed Doubles partner and then I won my 3rd round. Here it is. Later...
Black gets punishment for lack of development.
The first mistake of the game was mine on move 7. Bf4 should have been h3 instead...which is so much smarter and taking advantage of tempo. But it made the game just even at +0.06 I enjoyed the finish though!
Turkey Shoot.
The rooms are really smelly and in a strange conglomerate of medical clinics. There should be deodorant checks for chess players.
November 2017 3/2 Blitz
Today's little ditty.
English: Final Game of the Houston November tourney
ta da
Some Wildly Played 3 Minute Blitzies
A weird Sicilian? Hey, I loved your endgame technique here, hot stuff. This is a Pirc, whatever that is.
A random Scandinavian that I felt like analyzing 3/2 Blitz
My odd little Scandinavian - randomly chosen for analysis My birthday Scandinavian 3/2 Blitz.
My Very First...this Opening ( 3/2 Blitz).
This is a blitz game and my opponent did have an entire minute more than me when the game ended. I've chosen not to list the name of the opening in case some evil future opponent tries looking up my games/blogs. I played my best move 62% o...
