I have eyes but am blind. Not by choice or lack of effort. Blind by birth defect, not of the eyes themselves but by the brain that can not see these pathways. Ten thousand efforts at the combinations left here for us to try... And try an...
This game was finished today for round 5 of the local chess league. When they (the “they” that are the “they”) say that it is “Just a matter of technique,” what exactly do “they” mean? Do they mean that it is just sooo elemen...
What a time I am having. After almost 2 years of playing many games every day, I have stopped playing my 2 minute games. I reached the magic number of 4000 games. I know, of course, that many people have played many more. And of course I have...
Well, it really was the final today. Last game of the season and nowthe emotional letdown. Mr. Tosova was a brutal opponent. He was tenacious. Every thought, every attempt on my part to distract and lure him into an abyss was met. Until I faltered...
OTB Maybe the final for the year Captain, my captain! Do we have any chance at all to win our division? This is something I...
Since there was no OTB this month, I borrowed an idea from Sim, and decided to bring you my one and only true postal game. ...
Okay. So I’m only a bottom feeder. It’s not my fault. I’m not picking my opponents. The Fates and my team’s inability to win one of these things is picking for me. My team captain, like Professor Farnsworth, keeps telling me, “Good news...
OTB III There are things that happen in life that are big things and there are things that happen in life that are little. Sometimes even the littles...
Okay. So it’s going to be easy to tell the truth. But what I really want to do is rail against my opponent. I feel like the rabble in the Frankenstein movies .. Don’t get me wrong. I liked Mr Flohr. But I thought the game ended a...
A return to the game. Against my better judgement, I’ve decided to chronicle my return to OTB play. Not having played more than two OTB games in the last 25 years, I believe qualifies as saying I haven’t play OTB in 25 years. My las...
I just watched several 3 minute games as a match between two FM's both of whom were rated above 2400. They were playing various d4 openings that I am unfamiliar with. Out of three games, that I sat in observance, I saw no less than two m...
The little green, leaf like bug that has been in my ear, my whole life. It's been twisting me into a knot at all the wrong times; emotions. Because the game mattered to me. I took it personally. I took it as an affront to my intellect ...
Allow me to begin by saying, while the link to the game is located at the bottom, I do not seek to embarrass my opponent, That is the reason I do not in the body of this missive identify them. Neither would I wish that anyone think that I c...
