I started playing on gameknot.com because I was looking for my first online website to play chess on. I Google searched and stumbled upon it in September 2008, when I was just getting into competitive chess. 1st, this site is a correspondence-onl...
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At the Mukilteo Chess Club & Learning center https://mukilteochess.wordpress.com/ I am planning on running quads that are designed to fit within a 4 hour time frame. The reason for this is because I am running free tournaments at local publi...
Hi guys. If you're playing in a prestigious (chess) tournament and you make it to the finals (placing 1st) , you're usually tied with a bunch of people. Here's what you can call them, in the Spirit of March Madness!! (No Copyright Infringement Int...
I would like to start off this blog post by quoting a friend and very strong chess player londonsystem22 in his blog post on Sportsmanship: " One of the main reasons I love chess so much is that your position in life, job, rank, gender, wealth, o...
If people spent half the time they spend studying to improve their chess, on actually promoting and sharing the game with non chess-players, then chess would be more popular than Football in America by now. Which is better? Being rated 2000 and h...
Hi everyone, So about a week ago, I was teaching one of my chess classes at a school in Seattle. The previous week I had given my students workbooks to take home. In my group of 6, only 2 brought their workbooks to class the next week (7 days...
Hello Chess Enthusiasts and Chess.com viewers, As you may or may not know, I am an avid tournament player and chess coach, with a USCF rating of 1920 at my peak in June 2014, which I achieved in 6 years without any formal coaching. I discov...
I've been training lately for the Washington Open, taking place this weekend in Seattle. For the most part I've been playing 15 0 games on ICC (username thchozenOne), but I plan on doing other things such as a 15 0 game against myself and anal...
I was playing a game on ICC last night (ICC username thchozenOne) and this was how the first few moves went: Then I realized that the exact same position can be reached from a completely different move order! In fact, from an opening I used ...
There's got to be some reason why I'm rated 1800 USCF. Some might consider that to be on the "high" side, but honestly, sometimes I don't feel like I deserve to be rated that "high". For one thing, I've never even drawn a 2000 player! In fact, my ...
This weekend I went to quads at the Seattle Chess Club. In my first game, I made a stunning move that I wasn't even 100% sure would work!
This is my first official blog post, so I'll try to keep it simple. When you think about attacking the enemy king, positions come to mind from the middlegame, with queens and several other pieces on the board. However, what stood out about about...
