I'm not a big fan of rapid games on chess.com for kind of a dumb reason. 15-10 is my favorite time control OTB and I'm around 1770, but I played some rapid a while back against Komodo and dropped a bunch of rating and I don't have the patience to...
"My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant' -Henry Blackburne Joseph Henry Blackburne, known as Henry Blackburne, was born December 10th, 1841, and died September 1st, 1924. He was a the best English chess player in ...
This is my very first post on chess openings! If you've read my past blogs, you'll notice how much I love chess players of the past. I've not reached Philidor yet, but I think his chess opening would be a good start. His opening, e4 e5 Nf3 d6, is...
I'm back! Sorry for the long delay, lots of school and stuff like that. Today I'm going to look at some classic e4 e6 traps that are very common. I've premoved into that trap to many times, so when you do it don't feel to bad So the next one ...
Hey guys! Welcome to my new series, World Champions from 1475 to 1850. I hope you enjoyed my past blogs, and if you've missed them they are in the side bar to your right. World Champions before Paul Morphy have not been talked about a lot for so...
This third part of our series on Players of the ancient past we will look at Paolo (or Poalo) Boi. He is my personal favorite of the three that we covered. If you've missed them, the other two blogs on Lopez and Giovanni are here:https://www.chess...
I'm going to interrupt my series on players of the ancient past to share with you some bullet games against a staff member, @pedrobolanos. These are some fun 1-0 games with a lot of opening traps that he fell into. I ended up beating him 4-0-2, or...
Hey guys! I thoroughly enjoyed writing the first part of this blog about Ruy Lopez, inventor of the Ruy Lopez opening, so I decided to write on his main rival throughout his life. If you missed part one here it is: https://www.chess.com/blog/Dunca...
If you love chess as much as I do, you would love to know more about the origins of the game. Some say the game was created in India, others think it was made somewhere in Europe in the early 15 century. Whatever the case, It's a beautiful game ...
I had to write this blog for my ego Yesterday I accomplished my lifetime goal in chess- to become a 1700. In 6 months. I'm honestly still in shock, about half a year ago I was a 900 in an obscure restaurant playing some rated chess, and now I'm ...
I've had to write this blog 3 times because I kept messing up the code. It's a bit shorter because I have school and I'm running out of traps Thanks for reading and have a nice day
Hey guys, this is a special random blog that I wanted to make for standard chess players. I played this over the board at my chess club. In the game before that I had beaten the 5th best player in South Carolina, so I was feeling pretty good about...
Hey guys! This is the first blog I'm doing for both NARWHALS and GMUltraplayer, so I'm going to cover a trap that I've been saving for a special occasion. This is probably the most practical of all of the traps I've covered so far, and will likely...
This blog is specifically on a variation of Nc6. That was just something i had to get of my chest, here's is the meaty part.
The past 3 blogs I've made a blog on bad moves, but this time I'm going to show you guys what I think blacks best defense is to 1.e4, and add a little bonus trap with it. Enjoy! Ok, here's the trap. Thanks for reading and I'll see you next weak!
This is blog number three of the 3 Check series I've been doing This one is extra long on request. Ok, Here's part two: And GMUltraplayer wanted to show everyone me losing to him. This was longer but slightly less in depth. Thanks for read...
Hey guys! here is blog number two in my series of 3 check blogs. Today I'm going to look at how to close out the game if your opponent play d5 a bit to early. I've seen to many games where one player has a won position and doesn't know how to clos...
Hey Guys! I told @GMUltraplayer that I would post a 3 Check blog once a month. I'm a 1900 3 Check player that has beaten @believer22 over 130 times with only 60 losses. I would appreciate some feedback, and if you spot any errors please comment. ...
Welcome to my blog! Some of my personal favorite blogs:
https://www.chess.com/blog/DuncanDoughnuts/players-of-the-ancient-past-part-one-lopez
https://www.chess.com/blog/DuncanDoughnuts/players-of-the-ancient-past-part-two-leonardo
https://www.chess.com/blog/DuncanDoughnuts/players-of-the-ancient-past-part-three-boi
If you have any ideas, feel free to tell me.
Enjoy 
