Before talking about things more generally I'm going to put the 3 games that pushed me over the edge of 2200 for the first time! [Scandi Fishing Pole Trap With The Black Pieces] [The Lost Knight] [The Catalan Knight Chase] In the ...
Call it lazy but I'm using the youtube thumbnail for the blog! Peak laziness. Or as I like to call it being efficient and using the resources you've already prepared instead of wasting time! My fellow chess.com enjoyers welcome to another one ...
Hello everyone! And I have some exciting news and some confusing news. I have not blogged consistently this year and for those that have missed reading my riveting words I deeply apologize. I know your time without me has been tantalizing and drea...
Howdy people. It's been awhile since I have last posted anything on chess.com the last time I posted I was a mere 20 year old. A youngling as they say and had yet to experience life to the fullest yada yada. Anyway between now and then I wouldn't ...
Hello one and all, it's been awhile since I've wrote anything new on this. I don't know how long it's been exactly but I know it's been awhile. A couple of days ago I hit a new milestone of hitting 2100. It was my goal ultimately to get to 2100, b...
Good morning men and chicas! Hope you are having a good day here. I ate some food that ended up not being all that great today and am struggling a bit but such is life! I wanted to do a post that would talk about my achievement today, I have been ...
Hello everyone! And welcome back to my newest blog post! Since it has been so long since I last posted this will be a bit of a recap on all I've been able to accomplish in the chess world recently. Back in March I posted my first blog. I had gotte...
Top of the morning to ya laddies! My name is Daylen Branch Haley, I go by Nightlen on stream, and ThatMagnetMan here! And oh boy, do I have a story to tell. While I have gone to a couple tournaments since my last post and haven't wrote anything on...
This is my worst OTB chess game by far! While I did have some fun with fantasy insanity this was just insane missing Bxh3!!! I was fatigued from all the games I had played earlier in the day and was lost in another line that didn't even work so I...
Everyone! My winning streak has sadly been taken! And not only that by a former opponent from another one of my articles. My pride, my dignity, my very humanity slipping away from me! To lose to a 1300 rated club player my heart sank, tears starte...
It was a cold dark night... I found myself grinding something I hadn't grinded in a long time. BULLET chess!!! I had let my skills go down quite a lot. Once upon a time I was 1750, and over the past couple months my skills had vanished. That being...
I started to day a little differently than I start any other. I thought to myself, a conscious thought. "Today, is the day I take a break from chess. I'll take a day to recover before jumping back into the pull as I didn't get a lot of sleep last ...
Here I was, I just went to this place last week for the first time in Brownsboro. And to my surprise I crushed everyone I played like they were nothing. With the exception of the final round, whom I was faced against a very strong opponent. This t...
Hello Everyone! Yesterday I reached the highest rating I have ever been on chess.com Rapid. 1964, for the first time playing chess I have been a HIGH 1900, my previous peak was 1949. After achieving that peak I lost 1900 many times and had to clim...
Here I was, it had been two years since I had been to an over the board tournament. Was I washed up? Would this kid that was sitting in front of me devour my soul? I have played enough kids to know that just because someone is young didn't mean ...
