If any of you have read my last post, you would think that this one would never exist. So I need to clear something up. Back when I competed in the Idaho Scholastic State Championship, the kid who won would go to the nationals. As some of you know...
The Idaho Scholastic Chess Championship.
Okay, it all begins with me being a kid. Why does that have anything to do with this? Because I can't play unless I'm a kid. And unless I qualified. Which brings me to the next part of this blog post. I ...
Pray for peace in Ukraine.
It all started when I saw that my chess.com friend was online. It happened that he was also a Idaho champion and a 2000+ rated player. I decided to sent him a challenge and he accepted. So now my game.
The game
As you can see he blundered a...
Today we saw an epic game between challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi and current world champion Magnus Carlsen. It was also the longest match in the history of world chess championships. Here it is.
The Game
As you can see, this was a tense endg...
It all began when my dad said that if I got top ten percent in one of the weekly blitz or rapid US chess rated tournaments, he would buy me a pocket chess board. I really wanted one because it would be easier to work through my chess books on the ...
In the beginning of November last year my dad asked me and my brother if we wanted to compete in in the K - 12 scholastic nationals and I said that I wanted to. My brother was a bit skeptical, but I was excited to compete with kids my age over the...
So, basically it all started when Tihon Chernyaev reached 900 subs on Twitch, he was doing a viewers challenge to celebrate as normally he just does arenas and practices. He also said that whoever challenges him will be played for sure.
So I chal...
On September 26th, 2020 I competed in the Eastern Idaho Open, which was my first US chess rated tournament. I had competed in mini tournaments on chesskid.com, but they didn't really tell me how good I was and I really wanted to compete in a rea...