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2023 recap

2023 recap

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Dec 31, 2023
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2023. What an amazing year for chess.com. As 2023 s chess clock ticks and gets shorter against 2024 s lets take a moment and recap what happened.  2023 world chess championship We had a crazy world chess championship and in the finals we had no...

Me Vs Mittens

Me Vs Mittens

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Dec 26, 2023
| 350
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You won't believe this game that I played against mittens I can't believe I won.  This was a insane game that played against mittens. The crazy thing is I'm 1200 ELO and on the verge of a tilt. So how did I beat mittens? Well I didn't. This wa...

French Defense Crash Course

French Defense Crash Course

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Dec 4, 2023
| 116
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Hello and welcome back to another blog. Sorry that it's been a while since my last   blog, I have been busy with school and trying to enjoy the new year in South Korea so I've been trying to find a hotel. But today we are talking about the french ...

Halloween Gambit Crash Course

Halloween Gambit Crash Course

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Oct 31, 2023
| 564
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Happy Halloween everyone! I'm going to show you a gambit that is not that known but before that there is a lot more that I want to cover. So let's go look at the agenda.  AGENDA 1. Recap of what happened in the month of october 2023 for chess...

Queen's Gambit+ Slav  Crash Course

Queen's Gambit+ Slav Crash Course

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Oct 13, 2023
| 182
| 0

Hello! Welcome Back   to another blog and its part 2 well yeah but there are 2 openings.  WHAT IS THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT?  The Queen's Gambit is a popular chess opening that begins with the moves 1.d4 d5 2.c4. White offers a pawn to Black with th...

King's Gambit Crash Course

King's Gambit Crash Course

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Oct 12, 2023
| 120
| 5

hello! Today I'm starting a new series called the opening crash course which I'm going to make blogs about all 33 openings and I'm starting off with the king's gambit.   WHAT IS THE KING'S GAMBIT? The King's Gambit is a chess opening that begin...

September 2023 chess.com recap

September 2023 chess.com recap

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Sep 30, 2023
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Hello! In this blog it's going to be my first recap blog. Today  I want to talk about what happened in the month of september for chess. So let's dive into it.  Chess and clash of clans collab The first major thing that happened was clash of cla...

Me vs my family

Me vs my family

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Sep 22, 2023
| 84
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I was recently with my family for a little bit and decided to play them. And here is how it went. The first game I played against my family was my dad and I played two games against him.  My dad plays the polish for some random reason and it ...

The coca-cola gambit

The coca-cola gambit

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Sep 21, 2023
| 301
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In this blog I am going to talk about an opening called coca cola gambit.  This is the gambit:  It's almost impossible to play against a random person that will play the double grob. Thanks to  @Christiannelson1 for playing the coca-cola ...

Suggestions for blogs

Suggestions for blogs

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Sep 16, 2023
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I haven't found many ideas that I think that people would like so I have decided that you guys can decide what blogs I will make. I will keep comments open until the 19th. So give me some blog recommendations that are chess related. 

Some chess tips. 7 to be exact.

Some chess tips. 7 to be exact.

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Sep 9, 2023
| 60
| 1

In this blog I'm going to show you some chess tips that might help you get better at the game of chess.  1. Always analyze your games.You will learn from your mistakes and that's how you get better 2. Find an opening and play that consistently o...

Magnus vs stockfish

Magnus vs stockfish

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Aug 29, 2023
| 216
| 1

Hello and today and I'm going to have two parts of this blog one about the hans update scandal and two about Magnus Carlsen vs Stockfish.  Part one: So if you do not know about the hans niemann he was accused of cheating and there was a 100 Milli...

Update

Update

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Aug 28, 2023
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| 2

I'm not going to make any blogs until next monday because I live in Florida  and there is a hurricane coming and I don't want to take any chances. I've also been stuck trying to think of blog ideas and I might do one about the hans situation tomor...

What was the turk?

What was the turk?

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Aug 22, 2023
| 565
| 5

Chess bots have evolved so much over the past 30 years but the first Ai/Robot was called the turk and it was programmed to play other top chess players at really high levels. I'm going to show you the games today.  Napoleon (At that time the lea...

Magnus to the finals!.

Magnus to the finals!.

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Aug 20, 2023
| 104
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Magnus carlsen has made it to the finals after beating GM Nijat Abasov  Magnus's opponent plays a london system. Magnus only needed a draw after beating him the day before. So that's what he did. Magnus traded the nights at a bishop and then tr...

Magnus Carlsen vs Garry Kasparov  2004

Magnus Carlsen vs Garry Kasparov 2004

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Aug 17, 2023
| 15,123
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One of the greatest chess names in history have only played three chess games against each other . And I'm going to show you all of those  games today.  Carlsen with the black pieces and Kasparov with the white pieces. That was the first game ...

Hikaru's six brilliant moves

Hikaru's six brilliant moves

orangewatertotallynotblue
| Aug 16, 2023
| 1,528
| 5

Ladies and gentlemen Today I'm going to show a game where Hikaru played 6 brilliant moves. Hikaru plays the king's Indian defense which is something that chess gms almost never play anymore. Both players castle and hikaru are going...

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