My trouble, for which there is no solution it seems, is that I can't get going against players who are not challenging enough to get my adrenaline flowing. For a long time I was floating around in the upper 1600's. crossing 1700 4-5 times, and f...
I don't know why I should have to shut down games going clack clack while I'm myself playing. I just pressed the wrong button to shut out the racket, and found I had resigned a winning position to a guy 1399 to my 1568. Chess dot com you got to d...
If you see my blogs, you will note that a couple of them talk about how tough I find it to play so called weak players. In fact, over the last few months, I have been having trouble even with players rated around 1400, whereas I have myself crosse...
Many, many people, even those at the pinnacle, take comfort from astrology. However, in the chess universe, where, perhaps, the inhabitants are too battle-hardened and scarred for such frivolities, it has not been able to find a hold. Although a...
That's the story of my chess career on chess dot com. For some reason, the moment I see 1426 or 1385 against my opponent's rating, I breAK out in a cold sweat, and my instinct almost from the very first move is to try and save my skin. Forget att...
1. Vishy doesn't like to play on in a drawn endgame. Magnus exposed this weakness in Vishy's make-up in their first world championship encounter. Well, I have the same problem. In Vishy's case, it is probably a lack of patience. My problem is slig...
It sometimes happens in chess that a significantly weaker player than you beats you regularly, ie "he has your number". This is true even for grandmaster level players. In my case, I can drop upto 100 plus points at a stretch, losing game after g...
Things move slowly in the world of chess. That is probably why we are not doing anything about the elephant in the room, the real world champion. The chess-playing computer. Unquestionably, it is diminishing the world champions of today, as also t...
To my thinking, there are three world chess champions who belong to the exclusive but highly discreditable club of champions who refused to face a legitimate contender for the title they were holding. Staunton of Great Britain and Andersen of Ger...
The 1984 title match between challenger Kasparov and reigning world champion Karpov started off in September, with Karpov winning at regular intervals, until after game 9, he was leading 4-0. Needing just two more wins to register victory, Karpov ...
Something happened today that made me realize that you don't have to be a grandmaster to be absent minded, it's quite enough to be a 1600 plus chess player. I had lunch with friends at a posh hotel and was stepping out of what I thought was a doo...
Bobby Fischer was completely unpredicatable and totally inaccessible. The logic behind his actions was understood by no one except himself. Chess was all his world was about, and to his thinking, the Russians were dominating the brain game unfairl...
Of the 500 odd games I have played on chess.com, I have lost a healthy chunk of around 40-45%. Some losses you feel bad because you thought you could have won, sometimes you simply blunder. Many times the guy manages to get the better position and...
The most riveting world chess championship ever by far was when Fischer won the title in 1972. First, the rules were bent to accommodate him in the inter-zonals, because he had disappeared from the chess scene after having abandoned the 1967 inte...
David Bronstein, who has the distinction of a 5-5 tie with Botvinnik in the latter's first title defence in 1951 (Botvinnik retained his title), once stared at the board for 50 minutes before making his first move.. The hypermoderns, Reti, Breyer...
