In my last OTB Rapid tournament (15+0) I lost on time almost all the games where I had a clear winning position. I got so frustrated that I decided to start a daily Blitz-Training (5+0) to develop a faster pattern recognition in short time contr...
Last week I had a really good surpise when I found these three books in a antique book shop I used to stop-by. The price was around 3€ each so I took them all, even if I already had the Averbakh's Chess Endings. Anyway, the one I had some pages we...
We have to ask ourselves: when is a passed pawn ready to march? We differentiate three cases: (c) When the advance takes place with the intention of sacrificng the pawn, so the enemy King may be decisively drawn off from the field of battle. An e...
I really enjoy studying with this book "100 Endgames you must know" by Jesus de la Villa. I haven't finished the first chapter "Basic endings" yet (as I'm trying to repeat and memorize every endgame as much as I can) but I already feel like I have...
Yesterday I attended to a simultaneous exhibition organised by IM Lukas Klima. The event is meant to advertise an International Chess Festival which is held in Ostrava every year on May, as the (few) players who win their simul games get the right...
I'm going to listen to achja's advise and I will try to keep this Chess Blog updated or at least, I will try to post all my OTB games which so far are kind of horrendous... This game was my second participation in "regional team's league" and I ...
Well... actually the title is not entirely true as the first OTB tournament I played was kind of explained here: http://en.lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/how-to-prepare-for-a-tournament?page=3#24 But this was my first "official" game...
