Hello everyone and welcome back to another Road to 2000 blog. I participated in the 2nd Sheikh Kamal Youth Games on 27 and 28 February, my first national event after 16 March 2020! The last time I played a national tournament ended 1 day before t...
Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another blog. Before I start today's blog, I want to apologize for not writing for more than 2 months. Over the last two months, I was very busy with the biology olympiad. However, it was worth it because I won...
Chess is a complex game with endless possibilities. Yet, certain patterns occur frequently in our games and we can study them, learn about them, and improve from them. One of the best ways to improve your pattern recognition and calculation is to...
Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog about my OTB experience. As I said in my last blog, I played another Fide-rated tournament on 3 and 4 February. This time, I did not need to travel to another city. It was held in my own town, Rajsh...
Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog. Today, I am starting new blog series named, "Top 5 ____". Details are at the end of the blog. Introduction: Today's blog is all about "Gambits". But what is a "Chess Gambit"? A gambit is a chess ...
Hello, everyone and welcome back to another blog. In one of my previous blogs, I told about my experience playing in Rangpur. In December, I went to play there again with the hope of gaining even more ratings and reaching 1800 in 2022. The format...
Hello, everyone and welcome back to another blog. In this, I want to answer a very intriguing question, "Is king really a lazy piece?" Chess is a team battle. All the pieces play an active role in the game with only one goal: to defeat the opposi...
Hello everyone, welcome back to another blog. I haven't written for a while because I was extremely busy due to exams and also I got eliminated in the Blogchamps . However, in the meantime, I have played quite some tournaments. Today, I am writi...
Hello everyone! Today I am going to show a simple method to play against the Sicilian Defense. Again, the purpose of this blog is not to refute the opening, but to show a simple method where you will not need crazy memorization. So with that being...
Hello everyone! Today I am going to show a simple method to play against the Evan's Gambit. Note that the main purpose of this blog is not to refute the opening as it is practically a very sound opening, but to have a practically good position. So...
Chess is a game of endless possibility. Millions of games have been played over a couple of centuries and still, most of the games reach a unique position. In fact, There are 71,852 distinct chess positions after four moves (two moves for White an...
Firstly, I want to apologize for not posting the recap sooner. I couldn't find the paper where I wrote the round 2 game. But I have found it and now let's see what happened in round 2. Before that, if you haven't read the round 1 recap, please rea...
After almost 2 years, finally, I have played in a classical chess tournament this Friday and Saturday. Well, I was pretty nervous, but I was also very confident about my improvement and I was pretty sure I am going to grind( I was 1454 at that mom...
Today I am starting my first blog series: punish your opponent's lack of knowledge. In this series, you will learn about many popular traps and how to refute them. Englund Gambit is a very popular trap which is reached after: Now, black is g...
I recently started accepting and giving friend request and in a few days, I got over 100 friends. Here is a puzzle for celebrating it. Please write "solved", if you can solve it so I can know how hard it was. If you like it, I can post more puz...
