Punishing the early Queen move
A Special Moment in Timing
One day while visiting the Chess Emporium's library of books for sale, I noticed that a chess tournament was about to start. As usual, I had no money with me and was unable to join the tournament, but I decided to stick around and see if I could ...
Fishing Pole game by Joel Johnson
Enjoy the following game involving the infamous Fishing Pole used with stunning results by Brian Walls in many games, here used with destructive precision by Master Joel Johnson, author of many great chess books.
The Passion of a Broken Heart
Saturday evening I hustled down to the Carl's Jr. on Bethany and 19th Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona to catch the end of the weekly 25 minute Game with 5 second delay tournament there put on by Rick Smouse. I was able to witness tragedy strike two yo...
Tournament Play on Chess.com
I just finished up my first round play of the 15th Chess.com Tournament, tied for 2nd place with over 1300 competitors. My 10th game was my toughest of the tournamet as I was under the constant threat of being mated by White's Bishop pair. I fou...
Chess from Brazil
I am currently in Brazil on a three week missionary trip. God has been good so far, the people are being blessed. In a rare moment of free time I came online at Chess.com to see if any of my friends were online, and yesterday after many months o...
Chess at Stanford
I visited Stanford University last week while attending the California Open in Concord, CA (no I did not play, just watched, and it was a GREAT experience). I played a bright young Stanford student by the name of William Chidyausiku. We played f...
An Attacking Game
Well it has been a while since I have posted... Mostly because I have been receiving beating after beating on the chess board... My son Jonathan, has really cranked his game back up after realizing I had posted his losses, and is really battling...
Saturday Practice = Sunday Success
Saturday I had my 2nd ever lesson from Life Master Joel Johnson. Man, is he a brutal teacher LOL... I tried to show him some games that I was proud of, and he just tore through them, finally telling me not to show him any more because the chess ...
Observing London Chess Classic 2010
Yesterday I saw one of my favorite players from ICC (handle Smallville) a.k.a. Hikaru Nakamura battle World Champion Viswanathan Anand. The live comentary was so awesome and was made available by translation. However, the comments are separate f...
Results of Preparation
I played a few games against my friend Joseph Carrillo the other day. It was a blast. The best part about playing Joe is that he is so supremely confident in his mental superiority over the rest of the human race that his face expressed the tota...
Nifty mate
Well today I was operated on... That took all day. I was asleep for a long time with whatever the Anesthesiologist gave me to put me out... So I woke up around midnight.. I missed the Le Bron James return, I missed the Suns Game, and I missed th...
Quest for Grand Master
So here I am, at 45 years old, with a crazy goal in mind. I have decided to become a Grand Master in chess... I know I am crazy. Sure kids have done it in three years at the age of 10 ! But they did not have to overcome 30 years of ingrained h...
