Tactics Puzzle #2
Common Blunders I Made
Everybody has been there, even the greats of chess. We often make mistakes, sometimes subtle and other times, quite blatant but that is a fact of life. Here, I look at the common mistakes and blunders I have made throughout my chess experience and...
Losing Sight
Sometimes when you are playing chess and you are so focused on achieving a certain goal in your plan, you forget to look at the board and see what's going on. Sometimes you lose sight and forget which pieces are on which squares. To see the game ...
Subtle Threats
This was my very first chess 960 game and it was crazy. Aside from the fact that I did not know what I was doing in regular chess, I had made a fool of myself in this variant. So here is my analysis of the game. To check the analysis: http://ches...
Beginner's Luck
I would like to do an analysis of my very first recorded online game and how awful I was at playing chess before. I learned how to play the game when I was 4 years old, but only to the extent that I knew how to move the pieces and when the game wa...
Even Strong Players Blunder
I was watching an online blitz game of two relatively strong players and they came to a position where a familiar pattern seems to have emerged but it turns out that there was no mating pattern at all but they both thought that the checkmate was i...
