I have just played a brilliant move. Unfortunately, I am about to play my only blunder of the game to follow my brilliant move. Can you figure out why rook b1 was brilliant but following it with rook d1 was a blunder? See if you can figure out th...
Kenzie and I sat down and played a game with each player having an hour on their clock. The goal was to talk each other through our moves and analyze strengths and weaknesses in each others play rather than being focus on the result. I have taken ...
This was a quarterfinal match between Micah and Grumpah. Micah would ultimately win on time, but failed to exploit a major opportunity that allowed Grumpah to take an advantage later on. Grumpah has just played kxh7. I can see why he thought this ...
This is a game between James and Murphy that ultimately led to a stalemate. If you want to make your brain hurt try and come up how many different moves result in checkmate? Any idea how many moves from this position result in a stalemate? Want so...
Cliff is playing white and Dakota is on black. This is about to be the quickest game of the tournament by move count and time ellapsed. Cliff has used the common tactic of pinning dakotas knight to her queen. Dakota's best response would have been...
Katie was playing black and sarah was playing white in this first round game. Katie has just moved her knight to B4 putting pressure on Sarahs white queen. Sarah plays queen to A3 which proves to be a fatal blunder. Can you see why and find Sarahs...
This is the semifinal game in the B division between P-Dawg and robustdust. Robustdust has dominated the early game and has an 11- point advantage and it is blacks move. While there is a forced mate in 8 from this position for robust dust, we are ...
Noah was playing white in this semi final contest. He has just taken Mackenzies pawn with his Knight. Mackenzie saw this as an opportunity to remove a dangerous attacker and allow him to develop into an even handed endgame. Was this the correct m...
