This blog post is part three of a four-part series of my journey to the National Master title. I would suggest reading part one and part two if you haven't already. At this stage of the journey, my USCF rating peaked at 2193, just one away from ...
This blog post part two of a four-part series of my journey to the National Master title. If you haven't read part one yet, then I suggest starting here. The gap between a 2190 and a 2200 is greater than the gap between a 2150 and a 2190. ...
After seven years of playing chess competitively, I finally surpassed a United States Chess Federation rating of 2200 and thus achieved the long-awaited National Master title. Unlike many other players, my journey to National Master took an extrem...
We've all seen the videos on YouTube, a chess hustler playing a "beginner" in the park, only to realize that this "beginner" is actually a master. Though I've always wondered, what is a chess hustlers rating? Obviously, this question can be answer...
The year is 1997, Garry Kasparov is playing a six-game match against Deep Blue, Viswanathan Anand has won FIDE's new World Championship Qualifier, Karpov is on top of the chess world, and a murderer named Claude Bloodgood is ranked 2nd in the Unit...
The discussion surrounding the "greatest of all time" (GOAT) in chess has been ongoing for many years, with various players being considered for the title. Some commonly mentioned names include Garry Kasparov, Bobby Fischer, and Magnus Carlsen. Th...
Chess is an extremely excruciating game, and when it comes to chess improvement, there isn't anything more frustrating than a chess plateau. One of the most common plateaus is near the expert level. I've mentioned it before, a chess plateau is una...
Although there have been many controversial opinions (on chess improvement) in the chess world, none have really been answered by the best of the best. Until now, in this blog. I asked six questions to five different titled players ranging from a ...
The Unites States Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament that features 14 of the best chess players across the 50 states. In this 13 round robin, the players will be competing for $250,000 and the 2022 U.S Champion title. This year's com...
As much of you have likely heard, GM Hans Niemann, a participant in the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, has been accused of cheating which has likely led to Magnus Carlsen's withdrawal from the tournament. Although there are many mixed opinions about this s...
Against all odds, against all predictions, Ian Nepomniachtchi has won the 2022 Candidates Chess Tournament and once again, he will be going to the World Championship. Just last year, we saw Nepomniachtchi getting completely outplayed and making ho...
Unless you were born some chess genius, at one point, you're going to hit something called a chess plateau. It could be at any rating, 800, 1400, or 1700, but likely one of the most known plateaus is at the rating of 2000. A chess plateau is when ...
Edited April 2nd: Happy April Fool's! I hope this made you smile. For 461 years, the rules of chess have been somewhat questionable, and most definitely outdated. That last major change was over 150 years ago, although just today, The Internatio...
Robert James Fischer (better known as Bobby Fischer) is easily one of the greatest chess players of all time. Go up to any chess player and ask them who the best chess players of all time are, chances are that they have Fischer in their top three....
Alireza Firouzja has taken the chess world by storm climbing on the world ranking list from 9th to 2nd, becoming the youngest person to reach a rating of 2800, in under 30 days. The French-Iranian 18-year-old had always been predicted to be the ne...
Although I am a patzer, recently I was able to achieve a USCF rating above 2000, making myself a USCF Expert. If you've been following my blogs, you'd know that half a year ago, I was just 1600. After 5 years of playing chess, I've finally reached...
Three tournaments, 100 points. This blog is about my journey from 1814 to 1914. As of writing, I have a USCF rating of 1935! Hopefully, you find the games I show very instructive and can take something away that may help you reach your next rating...
Four tournaments, 111 points. In this blog, I will be discussing how I reached 1800 OTB USCF. As of writing, I have a USCF rating of 1856. Although those games are a blog for another time. I will actually be looking at some games after I reached 1...
I had not played any over-the-board (OTB) chess for one year, two months, and 14 days. That was until May 1st of 2021 I got to play an over-the-board tournament. After all of these online games, I could finally play an actual chess game without wo...
Welcome to Part 2 of my series "The Best Chess Players from A-Z". If you didn't read Part 1, which can be found here. This series covers the best player's who surnames start from letters A to Z. I will provide a few candidates (or none depending o...
I've done a blog about the Pros and Cons of Online Chess but today I want to talk about the main problem of online chess, and that's cheating. I know I have briefly covered cheating in chess before but it's getting so bad I want to cover it a bit ...
Today is the start of a new blog series, my latest series was The Pros and Cons Series where I covered the pros and cons of three different topics. That was a 3-part series and more blogs may be added to that collection but today is the start of a...
On March 17th, 2020, the 1st round of the FIDE Candidates Tournament began. The Coronavirus was rapidly growing and most schools got canceled and went online. I remember each day I would wake up, watch the Candidates Tournament while eating breakf...
Recently I've done a lot of blogs on other people, my last blog about my OWN games was in December so I've decided to make another blog about myself! Here are my Top 5 Craziest Chess Games along with some of the best tactics from my games. If you ...
With a surge of interest in chess during the pandemic. Online chess has gotten more popular thanks to the combination of everyone being forced to stay home, along with Twitch, and The Queen's Gambit on Netflix. With more chess tournaments going on...
