I am leaving chess.com. No big deal, not many people will notice. Even less will care. It should be a big deal though — at least for an educated, civilized, human and emphatic society. How can we accept that chess.com places ads for something that...
It is like a dream: Winning against a player who's chess.com ranking is 250 points better than mine? This does not happen too often to me. I guess your experience is not much different. I did some days ago and was kind of shocked: The chess.com an...
Have you ever been affected by cheaters? Did you ever wonder why some players "disappear" from a tournament? Are some players really trying to win a tournament "dead sure"? There are so many questions beyond e4 or d4 in daily chess life! Do I have...
Playing online chess has changed a bit for me since I started here at chess.com. Well, maybe I changed a bit playing online chess? I will try to examine this. The chess.com member Kalunga Davies helped me a lot — but he has no idea about it while ...
It is September 2018 already. I lost touch with chess.com and stopped playing seriously more than a year ago. I only played a handfull of games after May 2017. That was a real surprise to me: Chess was gone from one day to the other after an inte...
As the games will be played at chess.com I will include my experience here, even though things are organized by slowchessleague.org. The Background I want to slightly move away from these long term tournaments. Therefor I joined slowchessleague....
I got my personal wake-up call the other day: Lazy Frank! Go and type something about your chess life! Thanks for waking me up, Frank. :-) So here I go: I have to work through a whole year from January 2016 to January 2017 — and I will stick to ...
I started editing my profile in November 2014. It started with the lines "Sometime in the Sixties and Seventies" and you can guess that it is the boring story of my even more boring chess life. This got longer and longer because I tried to add so...
