Hey chess fans, I got back from the World Open a few days ago, so I want to share a quick recap of my experience there. Overall I did incredibly well at this tournament, with a result that might have been one of the best performances I have ever...
Hey guys, If you told me four months ago that by summer time I'd quit my job and start planning my departure from Seattle, I would tell you that you must be objectively insane. A number of unexpected events happened in the last few months, which ...
Hey chess fans, I want to present to you guys an endgame problem that arose from a game I played against Seth Talyansky, an Oregon master, at the Washington Class Championships that I find extremely instructional, both for the actual winning tech...
Sup chess fans, In my chess career, I've played chess in two main places: my hometown in the Bay Area California and Seattle, Washington where I moved up here to work for the last couple of years. When I moved up here, I thought the chess scene...
Sup chess brahs, This past weekend I went to one of the monthly G/60 Sunday Tornados that the Seattle Chess Club holds. I was excited for this event, as I had finished analyzing my two games in the last quads I went to, and I wanted some extra ma...
Sup chess fans, The last couple posts have been kind of heavy on the chess theory/improvement side, so I wanted to break it up with a lighter post this week. This summer I went on a two week vacation to the east coast. I started off in Washington...
Hey chess.com, Here's an exercise for y'all. List out the last 10 tournament games you played. Out of those 10 games, how many of those games did time trouble affect the quality of the moves you played? I think for a lot of people that answer wi...
Sup chess fans, On Saturday I went to one of the monthly quads that the Seattle Chess Club holds. I don't normally go to these because the tournament is so small, G/2 is too long, and Saturdays I'm usually busy. However, it had been 3 weeks since...
Hey chess.com, Welcome to my first blog post! After a long period of sporadic play after getting my master title, I have decided to make a return to serious chess. I know, I know, how many times have you heard people say that and never follow thr...
