I played two online games against a FIDE Master in a thematic Sicilian Defence: Hyperaccelerated Pterodactyl. Both games ended in a draw. The titled player congratulated me before one of the games ended. "All your moves are perfect" was his parti...
In the 1966 film, One Million Years BC, a pterodactyl carried off the scantily clad Raquel Welch. Wikipedia cites pterodactyls as the first identified flying reptiles that existed up to the late Jurassic Period. They were a carnivore and probabl...
I accepted a Let's Play challenge from a player rated over 2100. After he resigned the game on the 45th move, he sent me a trophy and a message he slipped. I'm not sure which move he slipped at or made a blunder/mistake but I think the trophy was ...
The Nimzo-Indian Defence (E20-E59) is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4. This hypermodern opening was developed by Grandmaster Aron Nimzowitsch who introduced it to master-level chess in the early 20th centu...
In the game dubbed Rematch, Gambit Lines defeated for the second time the Vote Chess Assassins. The game is in the Benko Gambit. Failing to push e5, the Assassins had difficulty containing Gambit Line's knight which found an excellent post in the ...
I played two hard-fought matches against two high-rated players. Both games are in the King's Gambit Accepted. The first game is in the traditional King's Knight Gambit, where I chose to play the Explorer's most chosen moves up to move 9.Qd3. The...
This is in 3/0 blitz and the game went into the Alapin Gambit of the Ruy Lopez Exchange. The Killer Trap was again effective and won in only 27 sec. Below is the image I snipped from my desktop. The game finished in 17 moves. My clock stopped at 2...
The Alapin Gambit in the Ruy Lopez exchange (C69: Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation, Alapin Gambit) is characterized by the following moves and position: White however does not take the gambit due to Qh4 intending mate and instead moves 7.d3. In ord...
The Old School defeated the formerly unbeaten Vote Chess Masters (VCM), arguably regarded as the toughest group in chess.com in Team Vote Chess. VCM displays an average rating of over 2000. Among the top rated players in their team are ka64ei ...
This is a TVC game between the Bogolyubov Variations and the Old School. The game is in C33: King's Gambit: Accepted, Bishop's Gambit Bogoljubow Variation. Old School (black) played the opening moves by following Karpov's 1969 game against Castro...
This is a game between my group, the Unit vs the Philippine Finest. It is a long game with advantage shifting back and forth but finally ended in a draw. Chess is a game decided by the opposing players' mistakes or blunders. To a friend of mine...
Gambit Lines win over Team Serbia in 31 moves using the Latvian Gambit. This is a line in the Fraser Variation, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.Nxe5 Nc6!? 4.Qh5+g6 5.Nxg6 Nf6 (Introduced in 1873 by the Scot G.B.Fraser) that remained unrefuted in the Latvian Ga...
Gambit Lines is playing a new TVC in the Benko Gambit against one of the toughest groups in chess.com, the Vote Chess Assassins. The group is administered by Alan_Tudor , also known as the King of Vote Chess and KiNg_ChApO, also known as the sw...
Ludwig van Beethoven's Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C Major, Op. 56, more commonly known as the Triple Concerto, was composed in 1803 and later published in 1804 under Breitkopf & Hartel. The choice of the three solo instruments ef...
A chess.com friend, Jeff Burton or BURT65, likes to open in the Trompowsky. He just finished a game where he sac his queen for a mating attack. We are playing a friendly game where I am again in the attack mode. However I was so careless that I th...
Cheap Trick in Sicilian THE CHESS TRICK and here is the music for this chess trick: THE FLAME Cheap Trick and watch out for the re-release of the video containing your favorite chess tricks!
A more modern interpretation of the Falkbeer is 2...d5 3 exd5 c6!?, as advocated by Aron Nimzowitsch (right image). Black is not concerned about pawns and aims for early piece activity. White has a better pawn structure and prospects of a better e...
I created the following diagram in the Danish Gambit to show the proper way to play the gambit for both the white and the black pieces according to some previous analyses on this opening. The 19th-century Danish Gambit was first popularized by Dan...
The Gambit Lines has started a new TVC game against the Chess Dragons led by The_Chess_Ninja , Alan_Tudor , sjpdna , Teary_Oberon, __vxD_mAte. http://www.chess.com/votechess/game.html?id=21257 The Chess Dragons are playing the white pie...
Boris Vasilievich Spassky born January 30, 1937) is a Soviet-French chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from late 1969 to 1972. He is known as one of the greatest and oldest living chess players. Spassky wo...
The Gambit Lines will open its Team Vote Chess (TVC) in the Cochrane Gambit against the Vote Chess Masters or VCM - a group of 35 vote chess specialists with an average rating of 2045. VCM is regarded as the toughest group in TVC matches at ches...
The Chess n' Cappuccino invited me to join their group and participate in Team Vote Chess (TVC) matches. In my first game with the team, it felt like it was a ceremonial welcome but actually it was just a coincidence having to help them deliver...
I am actively participating now in Vote Chess. I just realized that this game offers not just the game but in a large part socializing as well. You would be able to meet real enthusiastic chess players all over the world, like those members below....
QUEEN OF THE SLIPSTREAM I hope you'll like my youtube music video embedded in this blog. First, some quotes about the queen. You are for me the Queen on d8 and I am the Pawn on d7!! - GM Eduard Gufeld Every Pawn i...
