More sacrificial play!
A colleague of mine gave me one of his games. This game displays a nice piece sacrifice.
Four sacrifices in One game
four sacrifices, by white, in this game is surely my most startling win! this was a 1 +3 minute game too!
My best game as at 3/3/2011
Three pawns down and still managed to win against somebody rated almost 300 points higher! You must admit this is impressive! I was impressed! Here it is!
Salvaging a draw
Managed to salvage a draw from a lost middle game. I was two pawns down in the middle game. My opponent managed to promote a pawn(he chose a rook) and I had to sacrifice my knight to capture it. At this stage I was a rook veruss a pawn down! Yet I...
My best game?!
Just played three very very strange games. Earlier in the evening I lost around 12 games in a row and dropped 50 rating points. Had a break came back and the first three games I play are two draws and a win against a 1700 rated player. Remember my...
Examining historic games
Well here I am back at chess.com. Why do I do it? Because chess is a good challenge. It provides enjoyment and is good fun. What more could you ask for? I was thinking about the modern age of chess versus the pre-silicon days of chess. In yonder y...
A consolidating weekend.
The weekend started early for me. 12.30am to be precise. 30 minutes after midnight that is. I was so shatered from the day before that i went to bed at 7.30pm and woke 5 hours later. I seem to be using chess on this site as an opportunity to do so...
Oops I did it again!
Oops I did it again! I stayed up real late playing chess again! This time I went overboard, I am sure of it. I got to bed at 5am and got up again at 7.30am for work! I had been playing for 6 hours from 11pm. My rating dropped from 1488 to 1444. So...
Chess addict?
I stayed up till 3.30am playing chess last night. Meaning I had 3 1/2 hours sleep for work. does this categorize me as being addicted to chess? Who knows?!
New Start
Having been out of the competitive chess arena for some 10 years at least I though it was time to get back into the game that is known as chess! Over Christmas 2010 I discovered online chess. I been playing for around 2 months now and have been pl...
