In a rare sighting, Hikaru Nakamura decided to log on to chess.com to beat up on some patzers. However, there weren't any players on that were rated higher than 2505 in bullet. Being rated an absurd 3105 himself, he would need to play against an o...
So! One more round to go. Malachi and me were still the leaders of the tournament with 4.5/5, but there were two competitors who were just behind with 4/5. The pressure was on, and I had to keep a close eye on Malachi's game as well. Knowing the r...
Game 5 started the next day after my other 4 games, so I had time to rest and rejuvenate myself. From yesterday, my first game started at 10am and my last one finished after 9:30pm... it was a very long day. Only myself and one other player had 4/...
Unfortunately, I spent more than an hour setting up my review for game 3 to post here, but then I remembered that I screwed up the annotation during the game, so the move orders are completely disorganized and incorrect. All I can say is what happ...
Okay, so I won my first game in less than 30 minutes, giving me plenty of time to relax and prepare for my 2nd game. I went home and looked at some lines for the Alekhines defense, an uncommon opening that I like playing as black. It wasn't much o...
So, this weekend I played in my 2nd chess tournament in Sturbridge, MA. The entry fee was $160 and there were 33 players in my group in the under 1700 bracket. My previous rating after my first tournament was at a 1523, which I thought was prett...
No, I did not beat the computer with a stick. The task was done by a stone... the Stonewall Dutch. This specific opening gives white great attacking chances on the kingside against this machine, while it spends many moves developing and coordinati...
In a long 3-month heated battle against the world's number 3, I managed to draw Hikaru after a long 66 move game. I had spent countless hours analyzing this game, to the point where I would go to sleep some days with variations playing in my head!...
Hello everyone and welcome to my first chess.com blog! Yesterday, chess.com hosted an event live on chess.com/tv featuring a very strong Grandmaster, Timur Gareev, who has a fide rating of 2680 and is ranked #3 in the US and 81st in the world if I...
