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The local youth chess club

The local youth chess club

blowerd
| Jan 12, 2020
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On Saturday 11th January 2020 I went to the local library where the local junior chess club was taking place.  I have been before but not for a while and it was a good opportunity to catch up with some people that I know there.   As I am the ch...

Back rank checkmates

Back rank checkmates

blowerd
| Oct 16, 2018
| 123
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It is amazing how often this happens, in my games.  https://www.chess.com/live/game/3145883312 https://www.chess.com/live/game/2869589907  https://www.chess.com/live/game/2845664049 

Chess for kids

Chess for kids

blowerd
| Sep 21, 2017
| 282
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One of the things we try and do at my local over the board chess club is ensure that anyone has the opportunity to improve their game.  The opportunitys for learning new things about the game of chess, never stop even if you have played the game f...

Going through my previous games

Going through my previous games

blowerd
| Jun 22, 2017
| 286
| 1

As well as playing chess I like to go through my previous games, regardless of the result.  We can always learn something from our past games and although it is never too easy to go through a previous game that you lost and ask yourself and others...

Rushall v Brewood - Monday 12th December 2011

Rushall v Brewood - Monday 12th December 2011

blowerd
| Feb 17, 2016
| 917
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  On move 3, white could have played cxd5, and then if Nxd5 4. e4 and a big pawn center and your Knight on the run. If you take with the Q, he plays Nc3 first and then probably follows up with e4: huge space advantage and your pieces scampering....

Illegal moves and the touch move rule

Illegal moves and the touch move rule

blowerd
| Sep 6, 2015
| 1,061
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  On chess.com the computer does not allow you to make illegal moves.  But in OTB chess matches, there is no invisible force field that prevents players from making illegal moves, so games at club level sometimes do have illegal moves played in ...

Mark Tallis v Roger Grainger

Mark Tallis v Roger Grainger

blowerd
| Jun 7, 2015
| 1,011
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As a very tense game reached its concluson, from the position shown, Roger's notation reads as the move plays.  The comments come from Roger's analysis himself.  Roger commented that instead of 6... Rf6, that 6... Qxd3 loses to 7 Rd2, although ...

Mark Keady v Kim A Andrews

Mark Keady v Kim A Andrews

blowerd
| Jun 3, 2015
| 1,169
| 0

    This is the game between our own Mark Keady and Kim A Andrews from Wigan Knights Chess club, at the Blackpool Chess Congress 2014 - Intermediate Section, at the Imperial Hotel, Blackpool, played on Sunday 9th March 2014.  This was roun...

David C Dunne v Mark Keady

David C Dunne v Mark Keady

blowerd
| Jun 3, 2015
| 1,418
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  This is the game between David C Dunne from West Nottingham Chess Club and our own Mark Keady, at the Blackpool Chess Congress 2014 - Intermediate Section, at the Imperial Hotel, in Blackpool played on Saturday 8th March 2014.  This was round ...

Danish Gambit

Danish Gambit

blowerd
| Oct 15, 2014
| 2,401
| 2

My over the board chess "career" continued at the 2014 Birmingham Chess Rapidplay tournament on 12th October 2014.  I finished with 2.5 out of 6 (2 wins, 1 draw, 3 losses.)  I finished 21st out of 34.  I was slightly disappointed to have finished ...

An interlocked pawn structure

An interlocked pawn structure

blowerd
| Jun 15, 2014
| 1,320
| 0

Here is another recent interesting situation that I got involved in, in my OTB chess "career" (please don't laugh.)    Basically I am black in this game.  The topic title is perhaps slightly true but also slightly misleading.  Perhaps the topic...

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