Opening: Welcome my dear reader! Over the last weekend, I played both in the Berlin Rapid Individual Championship and Team Championship. The events were a blast, and featured some interesting chess, which I want to share with you all today! But ...
Hi all! A quick mini-blog because it’s taking me some time to write my recap of the Berlin Rapid Chess Championships. I wanted to highlight a spectacular piece of chess content by GM Sam Shankland and FM James Canty III; Chess960 has skyrock...
Intro: Hello my dear chessplayers! Today, I’m going to go over some of the rapid games (time control 12 min with no increment) I played at Schachfreunde Berlin in Germany’s beautiful and historic capital. Established in 1903, t...
Intro: For the first time in this series, choosing a game as miniature of the week took me only a couple of seconds - in fact, I didn’t even have to actively search for the game! That’s because I’ve been following the UzChess C...
So Close… Like every honest chess player, I despise cheaters - and it would give me no greater pleasure than taking advantage of the fact that they intentionally make errors to mask their use of engines to absolutely obliterate them. In o...
Intro: Welcome to the second edition of MOTW! Sorry, I’ve kind of fallen behind on blogging due to tournaments and traveling… hopefully I can start posting more regularly again over the coming weeks! This week’s game was playe...
Intro: Between 1993 and 2006, the title of “World Chess Champion” was split, with concurrent PCA (the Professional Chess Association) and FIDE players holding the illustrious crown. While the drama and stories of chess politics in th...
Miniature of The Week: Welcome to the first-ever edition of Miniature of The Week, and to my first-ever blog post on chess.com! My intention is to use this platform to highlight the rare “modern” miniatures - games under 25 moves - a...
