Chapter 2: The Early Age Overview (Y1-Y8) At long last, the “game” had begun, as it were, and the various nations began to vie for power. There were two basic ways that this was done. THE LONG TERM The Long Term was a military strategy that w...
Hello, chess.com! My name is hitthepin, and welcome back to the place where time is wasted. In case you couldn't tell from the title, I've decided to write a history book, on the Never-Ending Infinite Sandbox Chess Game. Before we begin, I assu...
Heya. I’m sorry, but I just can’t put out a GOTW this week. I’ve recently slipped below 1500, and my play has just been so god-awful that there’s nothing I can show you guys. Sorry. Sincerely, Me
Hello, chess.com! My name is HTP, and welcome back to another Game of the Week. Style. The concept of a chess style always struck me as rather ridiculous, at least, at my level. There's an old saying from at least one chess.com member that goes,...
Hello, chess.com! My name is hitthepin, and welcome back to another Game of the Week. A quick preview before we begin: I didn't play all that good chess this week. I'm not particularly proud of this game. I'm not particularly proud of any of thes...
Hello, chess.com! My name is HTP, and welcome back to GOTW. Oftentimes, we as chess players take pride in our greatest games. Why wouldn't we? They're the best of us and what we have to offer. We should take pride in them. And in fact, that's wh...
Hello, chess.com! My name is hitthepin, and welcome back to GOTW. Take a moment to go back in the past, and you'll remember one my very first blog posts, GOTW #2. And no, not this season's GOTW #2. The very second GOTW that I had ever created. ...
Hello, chess.com! My name is HTP, and welcome back to GOTW. This week, students young and old alike mourn the end of another winter break, and the return of school. I for one am proud to be a leader of the mourners. Life seems to have piled up...
HELLO, EVERYBODY! My name is hitthepin, and welcome back to game of the week! Yeah. Game of the week. Remember this thing? The old blog series where I'd analyze all sorts of terrible games that I played, and inserted sarcastic commentary in betwe...
Hello, chess.com. It's me, hitthepin. Yeah. No exclamation mark this time. Times have changed. Another year has passed, and this blog has fallen into a defunct, collecting dust along with my account. The glory days have passed. My time has pas...
Today, I got this little notification from chess.com: Oh, boy... Hello, chess.com! I'm HitThePin. You clicked on this post because you're happy that I've been here for a year? Hey, thanks! It's been a whole year since that fateful October eve...
No, of course it’s not my actual birthday today. Did you think I would give the entire internet that deeply personal information? Of course not. However, it’s close enough, so we can celebrate today and act like it’s my birthday. Hello, Chess.co...
Hello, chess.com! My name is HitThePin, and I am here once again to wax philosophical on the tomes of chess. Thank you for joining me. Post-game analysis is a tricky thing. It's almost as important as the game that was played itself. Yet while th...
Hello, chess.com! My name is HitThePin, and as always, welcome to GOTW. We all make mistakes. Some of us more than others. I try and show games where I make few mistakes, but now its time to observe a game where I did make mistakes. @Grandmaster...
Hello, chess.com! My name is HitThePin, and welcome to GOTW. As always, I am very glad that you clicked on the blue letters of the title that brought you here. In a previous blog post, I mentioned that I have not played a 45|45 game. Well, that c...
Hello, chess.com! I'm HitThePin, and welcome back to my blog. Chess is a game of the mind. It is one mind against the other, and the stronger brain will triumph, or so we are told. It stands to reason, then, that the state of mind that you are in...
Hello, chess.com! I’m HitThePin. Happy Labor Day, and welcome back to GOTW. Due to me unfortunately unable to post last week, I’ll make up for that and then some. Multiple games at once. Are you ready? PART 1: Rychessmaster’s revenge You rememb...
This is an announcement: I cannot give a GOTW this week. School has restarted, and so I have unfortunately been bogged down in homework. Thus I have no time this weekend for GOTW. To make up for his, I’ll put two game into the GOTW next weekend...
Now allow me to tell you a story... (mystical air and atmosphere) Three-hundred and twenty-nine days ago, a random kid was desperately bored and downloaded an app called “chess.com”. He set up a little profile and got a gold membership to go alo...
Hello, chess.com. I’m HitThePin. Sorry if the previous message gave you a scare. But my point being is that I’ll have a very high chance of chess.com the app being taken off of my phone. This means that my activity will drop off dramatically. T...
Hello, chess.com! I’m this blog’s host, HitThePin, and welcome back once again for GOTW. Ratings. At times, when we play chess, they seem like everything. Some people play chess solely with the role of increasing their rating. When we see a rati...
Hello, chess.com! It’s me, HitThePin, and here I am with a blog post after so, so long. You are a chess player. And you’re probably a good one. If your rating is at least a mere 900, you can probably defeat any of your casual-playing friends eas...
Hello, chess.com! I’m HitThePin, and whether you’re a longtime friend or clicked on this by accident, welcome to my blog. Ratings. The chess playing community - and that includes me and you - seems to be obsessed about them. Many player’s singu...
Hello, chess.com! I’m HitThePin, and thank you for aiming your eyeballs at a screen and reading my blog. Chess.com, as you probably know, offers a wide variety of time controls, ranging from an ultrabullet 15 seconds for the whole game to the...
Hello, chess.com! I’m HitThePin, and welcome back to the first GOTW in a very long time. If we can think about GOTW #4 for a moment, can you remember he game that I played with Waredude? I emerged victorious after a long, grinding daily game. T...
