Hey everyone! This is gonna be a "sequel" (if you will) of this post I wrote uhhhh... a year and a day ago today! However, this will be a little bit more on a positive note, basically a life update for me in case you are curious! ...
Hi guys. I hope all is well and those of you who are in school (shoutout to you) have a WONDERFUL spring break ahead of you! Time for me to "brag" about my tournament games again! Well, most of them are not really "brag-worthy". I p...
Hi guys. Welcome back to my blog! I made a commitment last month to post my tournament games on my blog again. Even though the one post I made was on a tournament game, I'm committed to showing all of my tournament games, the good, ...
Hi everyone. I'm going to start posting my tournament games on this blog! Wait, you might be asking, what(?!) all of a sudden inspired you to post your tournament games after so long of doing so. I will answer your curiosities in th...
Well, hey guys! Who's pumped up for the new year 2020?... heck, the new decade?! I'm sure many of you have, well maybe not necessarily resolutions, more or less at least goals for the new year... I can certainly relate! Two years fr...
Hey, everyone! I may be overdue on this... and that's OK with me! At 1750 USCF, I'm horrible at blindfold chess. I can stay in the game with beginners for about 15-20 moves, though I start to forget where everything is, blunder, and...
Is this title appropriate? Read and discuss in the comments section. Yes, today, I will be bragging about another one of my brilliant games. The "unusual move" was an otherwise unprincipled move at an unexpected time. But it was the...
Hi, everyone. To you Americans, I hope your Thanksgiving and Black Friday weekend was/is going awesome! This post will be a bit unusual to my writing style -- there are many chess videos on the internet, as posting videos are free f...
Hi, everyone! Wow, it's been 20 days since my last blog post -- days can be so disposable at times! Anyway, welcome to my series on unusual chess moves, moments where when you first look at the move played, you think to your...
What's up, everyone! I'm back!!! And hopefully, I will be for a while. I know some of you missed me (at least I assume so!), so here I am with some more content from your typical chess amateur! This series will be on unusual moves --...
What's up, guys and gals? The first post of my series, Breaking Down A Puzzle Step By Step was a surprising success in my opinion. It was a new idea that I came up with, and I anticipated people liking and disliking it. Fortunately,...
Hi, everyone! Have you ever tried the Budapest Gambit? The gambit for Black goes 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5!?. Black is trying to distract White from their harmonious setup in the center while organizing an at...
Hi guys. Even with my life making such twists and turns, graduating high school, preparing for college, and burning out of blogging, I still wish to share some content for you guys! Here is a cool tactic on Chess.com I solved today, and I...
Good evening to all. Check out the position below. I was Black in a 15|10 game. I was suffering the endgame, though managed to "swindle" back into a seemingly good endgame for being down a piece. However, is this really drawn (perhaps a win ...
What's up, guys and gals? As the title may (and technically does) imply, this post is not to brag about myself on how good I am. This is blitz by the way, so it probably does not have much long-term effect on my chess moving forward. I ju...
So... I know it's been a while since I formally wrote to you. I started a series which many (including myself) were expecting good things from, and a second post has not come up. Where have I been? Why have I not been writing to you? ...
What's up, guys and gals? It's been a while since I've written to you. Why have I not been writing? As is the case for many people, "life" got in the way. School, friends, family, prom, chess coaching, etc have been eating up my ener...
Greetings to all of my loyal readers! Ahhhh... I caught you! No, I did not quit this series! I am still working through Chess.com's perspective on the greatest chess games ever played! This game will feature chess...
What's up, guys and gals? Just another "lazy" Saturday for me. I'm coming off a crazy January month as far as tournaments go... which was going fine, though it ended catastrophically. February should be a chill month for me. I...
Merry Christmas, to all of my loyal followers and readers! Magnus Carlsen may have defended his World Chess crown against Fabiano Caruana, once again making his case as the greatest player of all time... however, Mister Magnus, if y...
Merry Christmas! Sorry I've been off for a while. Finals have been keeping me very busy. But with that out of the way, I'm now as free as a bird for the next 2-3 weeks! So prepare for quite a bit of posting! Le...
What's up, everyone? As I write, Magnus Carlsen is defending his title against American challenger Fabiano Caruana. With one more classical game to go (a draw being the most likely outcome), it looks like we will witness tiebreaks fo...
Greetings, fellow Chess.com readers! We will (kind of) begin a new series here. The objective will be to go through Chess.com's perspective on the greatest games of all time. My goal is to have each of those games analyzed in detail ...
What's up, guys and gals? Ready for another swashbuckling game between the two Cars who will certainly collide come Friday? This game dates back to Zurich in February 2014. This was only Carlsen's second ...
What's up, everyone? We are all heavily anticipating the 2018 World Chess Championship come this month. With bloggers like @vinniethepooh, @ddt_ru, @AlexColovic headlining previews of this epic match, I don't think a match has ever b...
