Duckfest

Background

As a kid, over 30 years ago, I learned how to play chess. My tactical skills were decent, for an eight year old, but I knew very little about strategy and I played the Italian Opening in 100% of my games. Fun times. I didn't play much in the decades after that. Even in the years I was more active, I played no more than a dozen casual games per year. 

I’ve always considered myself to be perfectly placed on the dividing line between casual and active players. Roughly speaking I could beat any casual player I’ve met, but I lost almost every game I played against active (club) chess players.

It was the Netflix show the Queen's Gambit that brought me back into the game. I really enjoy playing chess again and working on my game. It's astonishing how much progress there has been in the world of chess. I appreciate all the digital content that's available and I absolutely love all the fancy engine stuff.

Duckfest Digest

Want to know more? In the Duckfest Digest series, published on my blog, I write about my journey so far and share my ideas.

My favorite articles

• Duckfest recommends Harry Mack
• Resign or hand over to Hikaru
• Basic Decision Making

Game Libraries

Currently, I'm still working on reorganizing my game libraries. Some of them are up-to-date, while others are still a work in progress.

Hall-of-Fame series: my all-time best games 

• Daily games (library, article)
• Rapid games (library)
• Blitz games (library)

Game collections

• Duckfest Luckfest (How to castle a besiege, A Tale of Two Bishops, Divine Intervention, library)
• King of Counterplay (library), as featured in DD13, DD19 and DD22
• Drawn that way (in progress)
• Hall-of-Fail (in progress)

Other libraries

• Duckfest Digest (library), all games that are featured on my blog
• '22 Duckfest's Exhibition Library (library), notable games from '22
• '23 Duckfest's Exhibition Library (library), all other notable games from '23
• Tournament libraries
  • '23 Halloween Gambit Practice Tournament (library)
  • '23 Jerome Gambit Practice Tournament (library)
  • '22 Macrinus 32 Tournament (library)
  • '22 Chess Cup Championship 3 (library)
  • '22 2022 Under 1500 Daily Chess Championship (library)