Needless to say, I didn't give myself much of a chance going into this game. My opponent, GM Alexander Fishbein, was rated 437 points higher than me and I had the black pieces. The possibility of winning wasn't even on my radar, even though it's w...
Going into the final round of the 2021 Queen of Hearts, my talented young opponent Alex Rutten was the only player with a perfect 4/4. There were several players with 3/4, including myself, Miles Melvin (1973), Isaac Snow (2013), and Drew Justice ...
This past Saturday I played in the Montgomery Challenge, a 4-round tournament with a time control of G/60, d5. I decided to play up to the 1800+ section, which meant that I had a full-point bye in round one because I was the lowest-rated in the se...
On January 14 I partipated in the MLK Classic USCF tournament. I won the reserve section of last year's edition (my profile pic is from that tourney), but this year there were a lot more players (18 in my section alone!). In the first round I was ...
