This post contains a list of my favourite custom chess positions from other creators (in no particular order). Most of these positions were created in the Custom Positions Club, an online community to create and play custom positions. You can join...
Hello everyone! I have a different post this time! In this post, I outline 17 different ways to win an OTB chess game! To do this, I will be taking you through my OTB chess journey that I have been on in the past few years and highlighting each ...
Hello everyone, A little bit of a different post this time, but I recently completed an 11-round daily chess tournament spanning from late 2017 to 2023 in which I only played 4 games that were not timeouts in the entire tournament! The format was...
Hello everyone. As we reach the end of 2022, I took some time to analyze some of my favourite correspondence chess games completed in 2022. There were some great games here, so let's unpack them. 1. My Best Win In 2022, I defeated the highest ...
This post contains a list of my best custom chess setups which I have created (ordered by creation date). If you want to join a chess community all about custom chess positions, join the custom positions club! https://www.chess.com/club/custom-pos...
At the end of 2020, I analyzed 12 daily chess games (correspondence chess) which I played in 2020. This year, I have decided to do a similar thing. Instead of analyzing 12 games, I have found my 5 favourite daily chess wins of 2021. Also, this yea...
In part 1, I analyzed 6 correspondence chess (daily chess) games that I played in 2020. In part 2, I will analyze the other 6. If you would like to take a look at part 1, please click this link: https://www.chess.com/blog/RALRAL3333/i-analyzed-12-...
As 2020 is nearing a conclusion, I realized that I have not analyzed a lot of my games in depth. I try to make it a goal to analyze all of my interesting correspondence chess games (because I spend a lot of time to think on those games), but I fin...
I would like to share this custom position game with you all due to an amazing tactic I saw in the game. This game came from a custom position tournament where black's pieces start 2 ranks forward and white has a bunch of queens behind pawns that ...
Hello all, Welcome to my blog post about the 2020 Daily Chess Championship's round 2! This tournament has been a very fun and exciting experience for me and I have very much enjoyed my games, especially those in round 2 of the tournament! Round ...
Hello everyone! A lot of great tactics happen in chess, and especially in my blitz games, but some stand out more from others. There are some you remember more than others. In a recent daily game I completed, I was playing in a Sicilian Defense t...
I have not created a puzzle in a while, so here's one for you all! (Also, if someone knows what this theme of puzzle is called, could you leave a comment with the name of this below?)
Hello and welcome to my second blog about my first ever created custom position called "Ral's Trapped Queens Variant!" In this blog post, with the help of the computer, I created some "opening theory" regarding this custom position. Here is my pre...
Hello and welcome to another blog! This blog features seven different pawn endgames from my own games. They start easier, but get harder as they go. Hopefully, these endgames serve as a learning purpose for you! Endgame #1 The first endgame i...
Hello everyone. In this blog post, I show another game I played vs myself, visualizing the game without using a chess board: Diagram 1: Diagram 2: Diagram 3: Diagram 4:
Recently, I was asked by a user on this site about my future goals in chess, and besides rating goals I said that I would also like to improve in very opened and very closed positions. This game, played by @Ginger_GM was a very interesting closed ...
Hello to all viewers. It has been a long time since I posted my last puzzle, but I'd like to change this with a puzzle from a daily game I recently completed. I was playing white, and by leaving my king in the middle endangered, and by missing Ng2...
Hello all readers. In this blog post, I have posted a game I played against myself using only pencil and paper to write down the moves of the game. No chess board of any ind, no drawing the position and no taking notes. Just the moves of the game....
Hello to everyone reading! In the following puzzle, there is a nice tactic that I don't see very often when I do tactical puzzles. It came from one of my chess games with me as black and the puzzle is below. More explanation will be below the puzz...
Hello everyone! While playing in a daily chess tournament, I had the advantage in a game, when I came across this puzzle in a variation I calculated. I was playing as black in this game, and while the puzzle was never actually played, it was in a ...
In this puzzle, tactics, calculation, and finding the fastest mate are skills required to solve the puzzle.
A little while ago, I did The Worst Ways To Lose In Correspondence/Daily Chess which gave me the idea to now do The Best Ways to Win in Correspondence/Daily Chess! This blog hopefully will be much more funny and relate-able than my previous one. T...
Hello to all viewers of this post! Nearly a month ago, I created a custom position where both sides queens were trapped by a wall of the pawns and where there were no knights. I found the position interesting, because it had a few very big, simple...
Hello to all readers! I was thinking that since I post so many original chess puzzles, people might be wondering how I am able to create all of these puzzles, so In this post, I will do my best to show you my thought process as I create a puzzle, ...
