"The King's March"
A famous game from maestro Short:
Evaluation of Material Imbalances Article
Here is a link to a fantastic article I found, on a fascinating chess topic. I'm posting it partially just to keep track of for myself, but I think anyone who reads it will get appriciate it. I was aware of some of the general evalutations in the ...
Bogo-Catalan Game
This blog post falls into the catagory of posting games I'm proud of. In the game, after black's passive opening play, I managed to ignore some materialistic instincts in favor of building an attack and keeping the black king in the center. And it...
Puzzles of Sam Lloyd
Samuel Loyd was a renowned 19th Century puzzle maker, and chess player. Especially stiking were his chess compositions, in which his chess skill combined with creative puzzle-crafting expertise to create some truely beautiful master pieces. Here i...
Petrov Puzzles: Easy to Intermediate
The Budapest Rook
This was a 15 min game played on ICC against an approxiamtately equally rated opponent. As a rapid games usually do, it had its share of innacurracies, but this one had some interesting ideas and possible variations as well. The distinctive featur...
Sicilian Rossolimo Game
I've decided I'm going to start posting random games I've played that I find interesting so here's one
Catalan Game
Hi all, I figured since summer is here, I would try to do more chess blog posts. And so here it is. A while ago, I started playing the Catalan as white for a few reasons. I liked that the Catalan works very similarly against queen's gambit type p...
Plaskett's Puzzle
This is a chess puzzle I found while browsing chess videos on youtube and it is without a doubt the one of the coolest positions I have ever seen. Apperently it was presented at Brussels 1987 (Kasparov and Ljubomir won, Karpov came in second) and...
Just Watch the Pawn Structure
Cochrane Gambit Game
Here's a game I played using an unconventional manner of tackling Petrov's defense/Russian game, the Cochrane gambit. I played this against my dad, who is not a increadibly strong player, but it still shows a lot of the latent sharpness of the va...
Shortest Legitimate Game
Enjoy!
An Interesting Win
This was one of my better online games featuring both tactical and positional elements. I played white.
Blitz/Bullet Chess Openings
When playing speed chess, the element of surprise is obviously much more important than when playing longer games. Another important factor is knowing the positions you will be playing before the game starts because chances are you won't have muc...
Premature Resignations
It really sucks when you resign a game only to later realize you could have drawn or even won. This game was an OTB game I played against an around 1500 player. The game featured mutual mistakes and in the end I resigned because I thought I had ...
Greek Gift (Bxh7) Sacrifices
This second sacrifice may noy have been sound, however, it worked partly thanks to my opponent. Any thoughts? On the openings, in both games I played the Colle-Zukertort opening which I find lends very well to attacking play because of t...
