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My league games from 2022/2023

My league games from 2022/2023

CM GaborHorvath
| 11 days ago

This blog was on hold for a while, as I had a lot of work with my students, the garden, the house - so something had to give way. Well, at least I can post all my league games in one go, as the team championship has ended meanwhile. Our team ...

My first league game

My first league game

CM GaborHorvath
| Dec 7, 2022

Well, better late than never: this is my first league game from the 2022/2023 season, played three weeks ago. Our opponent was Nagyatád, one of the strongest teams in our division. After signing a couple of new players for this year, they l...

Playing in a team again

Playing in a team again

CM GaborHorvath
| Nov 2, 2022

In my last post I wrote about how we moved to a little town close to Pécs, and it turned out that this little town, Szentlőrinc, has a chess team which plays in the second league of Hungary. The way I found the team was actually quite int...

Back on track - chasing titles

Back on track - chasing titles

CM GaborHorvath
| Oct 25, 2022

It has been a while since I updated this blog. It has always been my intention to continue it, but life got in the way. So this is just a quick update on what happened to me while this blog was in coma.  The most important thing is that me ...

The power of cross-pins

The power of cross-pins

CM GaborHorvath
| Oct 22, 2019

I decided to write a post about cross-pins because quite a few of my students said that they never heard about the idea before our lessons. Of course, there is nothing new under the sun: while I was collecting material for this post, I discovered ...

Bangor Chess Congress 2019

Bangor Chess Congress 2019

CM GaborHorvath
| Oct 18, 2019

The weekend before last I participated in the Bangor Congress 2019, a 6 round rapid tournament which has been revived after a 14 year break, thanks to the energetic organiser, Brendan Jameson and his team. Tournament Organiser/Arbiter Bre...

Game analysis #9 - Running from a winning endgame

Game analysis #9 - Running from a winning endgame

CM GaborHorvath
| Sep 30, 2019

This is a game from userfriendly2, who posted it on the forum, asking for help with the analysis. I think the game is quite instructive, and White's mistakes are rather typical, so I decided to write a post about it. I added my comments to userfri...

My win against IM Tibor Károlyi

My win against IM Tibor Károlyi

CM GaborHorvath
| Aug 19, 2019

In this post I would like to show you an old game of mine, which I played  in 2013 in Dublin in the Irish National Club Championship. I was playing for Galway, and my opponent was another Hungarian, IM Tibor Károlyi, who happened to ...

Principles explained #2 - Why do we castle?

Principles explained #2 - Why do we castle?

CM GaborHorvath
| Aug 14, 2019

There are a lot of chess principles we hear all the time, but don’t necessarily understand, or never really investigate. The purpose of these posts is to take a closer look of those principles, and examine the logic behind them.  One ...

Game analysis #8 - Losing the unlosable

Game analysis #8 - Losing the unlosable

CM GaborHorvath
| Aug 6, 2019

This is a game from Giasira, who posts his games regularly under the topic "Road to 1600 Rapid, trying to improve after every game". His last game was a loss, and must have been a painful one, as he had such an overwhelming advantage at one poin...

My first online student's progress

My first online student's progress

CM GaborHorvath
| Jun 28, 2019

I just checked recently the old tournament games of my very first online student, and wanted to share some of them with you.  My student is a ten years old little girl from England. I started to give her face to face lessons two years ag...

A miniature in the Morra gambit

A miniature in the Morra gambit

CM GaborHorvath
| Jun 6, 2019

In this post I would like share with you a nice attacking game which I played recently in the Morra gambit. Although the Morra is not my main weapon against the Sicilian, I teach it to my young students, so I have to play it from time to time...

Game analysis #7 - Losing a playable endgame

Game analysis #7 - Losing a playable endgame

CM GaborHorvath
| May 7, 2019

Freehealthcare published this game on the forums, asking why he lost the endgame, as it did not look so bad. Well, the main reason was apparently a misplaced rook on b2 that got into trouble.  We all have heard that we should develop our...

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