Latest OTB FIDE rated game.
A few mistakes by both sides ... but satisfying nonetheless
Two Knights Mate... not a set-up.
This happened in a real game... Chess really is a game of many faucets.
Castle Mate - National Qualifier Tobago 2014
Latest OTB
Final Fate, for the faithful...
It's worth mentioning once more that I post these OTB games in tribute to the many lessons taught by my persecutors on this site. So in the ultimate round (7), of our Thursday "Knight's" 2013 Open Swiss, with several players FI DE rated>2000, ...
Abominably bad loss, suggestions?
To Jimvger20 as requested... For any who have not read the initial post please follow this link:- http://www.chess.com/blog/VuduChile/exceptionally-pleasing--otb-game This is the game-
"Royal Fork" Ends OTB Game
The annual Thursday night OTB tournament in which I participate is on the way, it is a 7 round Swiss if you recall. Several of my club-mates entered this year and one fellow in particular has been carrying away the under 1700 title I previously w...
To Swap Idle Rook for Invading Bishop ending with Mate-in-4 puzzle.
My friend " ruelasker " recently compared "giving up the exchange" to "a bit early resignation". This brought to mind this game from my current OTB tournament when post analysis advised against doing just that.
Chess on the Beach US VI Day5 Rd 9
I cannot remember mentioning it before that the US VI Chess Federation had organised this 'ratings development tournament' for members of their team going to FIDE Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey. If Istanbul is anything as well-kept as Christi...
Chess on the Beach US VI Day5 Rd8
Up until this round my toughest game was the 5th round war versus Niceguy. Until the unfortunate blunder on the 40th move, ...f5. The game was exhausting, both clocks running down in single digits and remained a strategic stalemate. At 5 - 2 -...
Chess on the Beach US VI Day4 Rds 6&7
It had to happen. You could read the omens too if you had been attacked by one of the creatures pictured while on your dawn swim. Seems me and this native 'Cruzan' reef dweller have grown so attached to each other that I'll be taking a part of it ...
Chess on the Beach US VI Day3 Rd 5
Life in a state of nature is full of struggle and sudden hidden danger. Chess imitates life; or is it the other way around? But life can also be a thing of beauty, thankfully!
Chess on the Beach US VI Day3 Rd 4
Dawn on a slightly overcast morning and the accustomed idyllic view from my balcony, normally deserted, was inhabited by an elderly couple. The man, leaning on a cane, appeared exhausted from the beach trek, his lady ...encouraging. After a whil...
Chess on the beach US VI Day2 rd3
Like previously said, life at The Palms Resort on the endless north coast beach @Pelican Cove has been a veritable paradise on Earth. A chess haven in the Virgin Islands Please let that angel, that must be on my shoulder guarding my play, stay ar...
Chess on the Beach US VI Day2
Okay second day of the US Virgins Islands 1st Annual International Invitational and you guessed it... (Oh no you didn't) not a loss yet. Life is a beach for me but some of the other participants are licking wounds in their rooms. Especially after ...
Chess on the Beach 2012 US VI
Woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun, won my first game last night, and I'm walking on the beach, singing sweet songs, pure and true, this is as good as it get get gets. The Caribbean isle of St Croix is the site of my 2012 edition of '...
Streak Broken at 2 Losses thenWIN!
Continuing the homage to my chess.com associates... You who have contributed to my improved play... My last two FIDE rated OTB games following the Just Irritating game, showed that I can err consecutively in the end-games before learning to turn m...
Instructive Lost? or Just Irritating?
The latest OTB tournament game left a bitter taste as my opponent, a >1900 rater(FIDE), is one of those arrogant braggartly repellent types who are the epitome of sore losers but who, not surprisingly, make formidable chess players. Fortunatel...
Another Queens gambit in Paradise
In the money, just barely
This last game got me tied for the 'Best Under -1700 FIDE rated' prize, in the OTB tournament refered to in my earlier blog, The Reason. Games are especially satisfying when they end in checkmate, let me know what you think...
The Reason
The reason I post my OTB (over-the board) tournament games is as a sort of thank you to all my friends, teamates, and opponents on Chess.com who provide convenient practice and a variety of styles and, I dare say lessons :), in the numerous chess ...
Chess on the beach ii
Arrived in Bridgetown for the Umada Cup 2011 last night and had a look at the venue today (Tuesday), here it is...
Chess on the Beach
Hello Everyone, I signed up for the 2011 edition of the Umada Cup prize fund $15,000USD, to be staged this year at the Amaryllis Beach Resort, Christ Church in Barbados! November 9th-13th. Though woefully out of form I am, who could resist the o...
Latest OTB Tournament Game
Hey, I'm playing miserablly in my clubs Swiss tournament this year but my most recent game was satisfying. Drawn against a confident opponent whose stylish play is loaded with attractive mating traps regularly employing numerous well disguised s...
No games in Fritz DB with blacks 2nd move
This interesting game, played last evening at a club tournament, was against one of the clubs virile young upstarts. A fritz database classified it: A04, Unusual lines after Nf3, & Kings Indian Defence; and strangely, found no games in the D...
