Forcing Moves 2.0
As I mentioned is a previous blog, I recently started a chess club at work. My first challenge was to give a talk at the first meeting that would be instructive to beginners and and interesting to the rest. I chose to lecture on the hi...
I finished my very first online game of chess today. Here is the result: It was touch and go for a while. chess180's style really threw me for a loop. I tried to stick to the basics ...
I just realized this week what my true chess "Style" is. Openings are pretty book. Middle game I build up a material, positional or both advantage. End Game is marked by a blunder that makes the wheels fall off & then I resign....
You only get 8 pawns. Seems like a lot when they are lined up all the way across the board. When you get to the endgame down a pawn, it might not seem like enough. You can get another queen, another knight, but there...
I wrote this for my profile, but it was too many charachters, so I'm bloggin' it. My dad started to teach me chess when I was 6(?) I was bad at it and never won a game. I quickly lost interest. Throughout my chi...