Note: This post was originally made, only to be deleted after I hit the submit button. To anyone making blogs: save every 30 minutes. Game 1: Melanie 1546 Game 2: Shojaie 1696 Game 3: Lan Qian 1784 Game 4: Harry Zhao 1696 Game 5: P...
Time control: 20 minutes per person. Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5: Lessons 1. In time pressure, be extra vigilent to look for those cheap tactics 2. Improve the ability to win won positions in the most efficient way possi...
Changed my match strategy to play for a win in every game. This sort of worked as I did get a lot of winning/better positions. Unfortunetely, it revealed my weaknesses in tactics and endgames. Worst of all was time pressure, which really messed me...
I played a lot of tournaments in the past few months. I got some delicious victories and also rather painful executions. Nontheless, they were experiences from which I learned a great deal. From these games, I wanted to search for patt...
Canadian Open took place from July 13 to July 20. Eventually got 4/7 with 4 losses, 3 wins, and two draws. Round 1: Miladin Djorkovic 2287 Basically a massacre from move 1. White blows his slight opening advantage by missing that critical shot ...
Possibly the worst tournament of my entire life. I start the tournament with a healthy 1.5/2 and end up losing three games in a row. And they were all games I either should have drawn or won. Darn it! It sucks to lose to 1700 players especial...
This tournament took place from July 22-23 at a community centre in Ottawa, Canada. Time control was 90 min + 30 seconds. Eventually tied for first place with a score of 4/5. Many of these games are quite instructive. Game 1: Stanley Wu vs ...
The Ontario Youth Chess Championship took place between April 27-28. I always find that these provincal tournmanets have two types of players, "da experts" and "da nubes". Either you have the top players ranging 2000-2200 or the guys swimming at a...
So I participated in a recent tournament recently. The players pretty much alternate between really strong and really weak. The first two rounds were pretty much just a mop up from something like move 6 on. Round 1 Round 2: And I spent ...
I'm an average 1700 strength player so games against titled players are something to be savoured. Even though these games were played in blitz time control, there were good lessons to be learned in each one. I found out that for unpaid members, ...
Came second in this rapid tournament so I'm guarenteed a palce for the 2013 Canadian Youth Chess Championship. Here are the games Game 1 Game 2 Game 3: The Sicillian Nightmare Game 4: Against le Troll. Guy was a genius at psychological tort...
Greed is bad in life and chess as I learned the hard way on a live chess.com game. The game I played was about equal until move 14 when I made the terrible decison to play f6. This allows white to gain control of all the active squares, leavi...
Really proud for pulling this one off. My opponent played the dragon sicillian which helped me a lot. As numerous players, including Bobby Fisher have said, the dragon yugoslav attack is so easy. The attack is so straight forward that even beginne...
One thing every chess player should know: rapid chess tournaments are very different than standard chess tournaments. For one thing, its so much more tiring. Physical preparation like jogging and swimming is essential if you want to do good in the...
Ever been to a situation where the opponent wins your queen straight off the bat? Most people would resign right? Would you? Funnily enough, in blitz and bullet, chess is run by psychological emotions more than calculations. After your opponent...
Lots of people are cheating on chess.com with computers. However, most of them don't. Many are becoming seriously paranoid about these cheaters, to the point where they accuse people of cheating without real evidence. I've been playing a few gam...
Here are my games in the HartHouse chess tournament in the under 1900 section. They were very fun and instructive. Round 1: Jamie Solis vs Stanley Wu Round 2: Stanley Wu vs Eric Wang Round 3:Wenyang Ming vs Stanley Wu Round 4:Stanley Wu vs ...
This was the first tournament that I found myself in the prescence very strong players. Having a modest rating of 1307 CFC at the time, I found myself in a field in which half of the players were expert level or higher. Naturally, I got roasted in...
