#jaenisch #ruylopez #quickwins A couple of months ago in New Plans for the Channel, I’d intended to retire my Quick Wins series after 103 videos. However, I’ve come to the realisation that there is a place for a shorter and ...
#englund #queensac #romanticstyle Over the weekend I attended an extended family gathering. I was making some small talk about how I had recently published a chess book (get your copy of Become a Chess Assassin!) when I made an extraordina...
#blitz #romanticstyle #fun Since the beginning of May, I’ve been exclusively playing 5+5 blitz and have been really enjoying it! Prior to this month, I hadn’t played blitz for around four years. For me, I don’t thin...
#blitzchesschat #interview #jaenischgambit Welcome to the first video of this new series, Blitz Chess Chats! Here, I speak to medical academics and researchers about their field of expertise and program of research… and we start ...
#channelnews I’m super excited to announce that my YouTube channel has just crossed over 4,000 subscribers! Wow! Thank you to all my subscribers of my channel, and regular readers of my blog! I thought that I would give a qui...
#travel #chessnutgo #vienna 🔥 Chessnut Store (Affiliate Link): https://www.chessnutech.com?sca_ref=4294516.IoYAy1V8Gt🔥 Or use my coupon code for a discount on checkout: CHESSNOOB64 Earlier in the week, I had a work trip to Melb...
#quickwins #romantic #fun Recently, I’ve had almost a couple of weeks off work: the Easter long weekend, and then attending the WONCA (World Organization of Family Doctors) 2025 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, held this year in Bus...
#chessarama #nintendoswitch #gamereview #chesschats Do you like puzzle games? If so, you might like Chessarama, a cute and very slick production by Minimol Games, a Brazilian indie game development studio with expertise in making chess-...
#romanticstyle #channelnews Recently, I’ve been undertaking some introspection regarding my chess channel and blog. Three-and-a-half years ago, I published my very first video on my YouTube channel with an accompanying bl...
#history #vienna #ohman #omaha I love the Vienna Gambit❣️ And so too do many of you! It’s been promoted by many chess content creators on social media and YouTube, me included. My blog from February 2023 titled, “How T...
#noobvsnoob #unplugged #jazz #casual #vienna CHESS UNPLUGGED | Sometimes, I just like to unwind by not thinking too hard, play a couple of quick casual unrated games, while listening to some slow jazz! 😌♟️🎵 I haven’t been pl...
#tactics #traxler #romantic One of my goals starting last year and continuing into 2025 is to better learn the many and varied lines in the Traxler Counterattack. It was first promoted and described by Karel Traxler (1866-1936), a Catho...
#englundgambit #queensac #romanticstyle I love the Romantic style of chess, and one of the signature tactics of the style are piece sacrifices. And there is no sacrifice more daring, more audacious, than what Spielmann categorised...
#fishingpole #tactics #romanticstyle I only started fishing last year as a middle-aged person, and it has rapidly become one of my favourite hobbies. Mind you, I’m not especially good at it, and am not particularly successful! How...
#napoleon #quickwins #brilliant Well, hello there! Welcome to the first chess noob Quick Wins for 2025, now #103. And for today, I’ve a rather delicious game where I won by checkmate in 11-moves with the black pieces, that was a c...
#viennagambit #brilliant #romantic #fun Happy New Year everybody! I’ve just finished a very lovely block of annual leave of almost four weeks! Before Christmas, we had a few days away in Bundeena chilling on the beach and doing a ...
#chessnutpro #unplugged #otb #englundgambit #casual #fun 🔥 Chessnut Store (Affiliate Link): https://www.chessnutech.com?sca_ref=4294516.IoYAy1V8Gt🔥 Or use my coupon code for a discount on checkout: CHESSNOOB64 CHESS UNPLUGGE...
#friedliver #traxler Do you want to crush opponents who play the Fried Liver Attack? 🫵🤨 I know I do! 🤩 The fearsome Fried Liver Attack is commonly seen at beginner-intermediate level chess. In fact, when we examine the...
#switchsides #fourknights #otb #casualchess #fun I’ve recently been a little less active with making new videos and articles. We’re rapidly heading towards the end of the year, and I’ve been quite busy at work, and hav...
#sicilian #smith-morra #brilliant #quickwins #romantic Today we have another chess noob Quick Wins, and once again in the Smith-Morra Gambit Accepted against the Sicilian Defense (1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 dxc3)! Let’s go! B...
#chessnut #unplugged #jazz #ruylopez #jaenischgambit #confidence 🔥 Chessnut Store (Affiliate Link): https://www.chessnutech.com?sca_ref=4294516.IoYAy1V8Gt🔥 Or use my coupon code for a discount on checkout: CHESSNOOB64 CHESS ...
#tactics #romanticstyle #smithmorra #englund #scandinavian In my last article, I wrote the following summary: The big takeaway is that playing in the Romantic style in the opening is not just about relentless aggression. It is t...
#otb #romanticstyle #french #english #englund Last week I attended an academic conference in Perth. For those who aren’t familiar with Australia, Perth is the capital city of the state of Western Australia and is on the west coast...
#sacrifice #spielmann #tactics I’ve recently been reading The Art of Sacrifice in Chess by Rudolf Spielmann (1883-1942). He was an Austrian from Vienna, and one of the last Romantic chess masters, playing this glorious style long ...
#unplugged #jazz #italian #vienna CHESS UNPLUGGED | Sometimes, I just like to unwind by not thinking too hard, play a couple of quick casual unrated games, while listen to some slow jazz! 😌♟️🎵 I've just played these couple of games...
