I spent some time yesterday reviewing a few games from the 2016 World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin. One specific moment from one game in particular stood out to me, inspiring me to compose this puzzle: Hopefull...
Against one of the best teams in the Pan American Live Chess League (LCPAL), Team USA stood tall, came from behind and beat Team Brazil, 16.5-13.5, in the Quarterfinals of the LCPAL GM Bullet Cup. They will play Team Peru in the Semifinals on Sund...
This is a great game I played at the 2013 WA Class. Expect two more blogs coming soon on the WA Class and some more games I played at the Class. Enjoy the game and my comments: After this game, I went on to draw the last game, scoring 3/6 in ...
Recently I participated in the Seattle Chess Club's Sunday Tornado. This is a four round, Game in 60 minutes tournament which is in just one big section. My USCF Rating was 1932 at the start. In the first round, I played August Piper, a 1500 ...
Who will be the World Champions after the age of Anand, and now the age of Carlsen. Here is my list, and I'll try to be extremely controversial :-) (This is a list of future POSSIBLE World Champions) 1. GM Wei Yi CHN 2. GM Richard Rapport HUN ...
I played in the 2013 Oregon Open and did a blog post about it here: http://www.chess.com/blog/Dare-Dare/2013-oregon-open. I went to analyze my games and this third round game stood out. It is a tactical game with blunders from both sides: ...
I participated in the 2013 Oregon Open and I took a half point bye the last round. This tournament was a great tournament for me, as I gained many points to go from 1845 to 1932. I played 2000+ rated players in all of the five rounds I pla...
Recently I played in the SCC Sunday Tornado. NM Michael Lin (2204) won the event with a perfect 4/4 score. The tournament had a time control of G/60 with a five second delay, and the event was USCF Classical Rated and USCF rating Quick Ra...
My debut at the WA State Blitz Championship was much the same as last year- I scored 7/14 both years. However this year, I played two masters, while for the comparison, I played no masters the year before. But, my rating this year was 1800, and...
From July 20-21 I played in the Seattle Seafair Open at the Seattle Chess Club. Normally attendance is about 60 people, but magically this year 80 people showed up for the event. The event included FM Tian Sang, FM Curt Collyer, FM David ...
Fighting Chess With Hikaru Nakamura is the second book in the "Fighting Chess" series, the first being Fighting Chess With Magnus Carlsen. The book includes interviews with Hikaru Nakamura as well as Second Kris Littlejohn and is equipped with ...
20 years ago, the top humans in the world could still compete with top computers. But now, everything has changed. Humans are no match for the top computers anymore. Fritz's rating is estimated at 3110, hundreds of points above even Magnus ...
The Grandmaster title is one of the best titles in the world, as are IM and FM. But are these titles really worth what they used to be? When FIDE first created the GM title, they awarded it to the World Champion and all players who had played in a...
The Internet Chess Club and Chess.com are two of the awesomest chess servers in the whole world. In this blog I will compare my experiences on both servers, as I also have a account on ICC. First, I'll start with good things on both servers. ...
What would happen to you if you were leading a tournament with a great score, then lost, leaving you tied for or behind first place? This has happened to me a lot, once where $2000 was on the line, and also recently happened to Super-GM Hikaru Na...
This will just be a result overview of the recent Washington Open I played in. Games and all the other juicy stuff will come in Part 2. So sit back, remember my USCF rating is 1870, and enjoy my bad performance. Round 1 was against NM Joshua...
