Head Monk
Head Monk By Paul Anderson Colorado Springs Chess Club President © 2025 Paul Anderson The Colorado Springs Chess Club is an affiliate of Chess.com and meets every Sunday night for online chess. We typically have a 30-min...
The Championship Season
The Championship SeasonBy Paul AndersonColorado Springs Chess Club President October starts our Championship season at the Colorado Springs Chess Club! October = 59th City Chess ChampionshipNovember = 2nd Quick Chess ChampionshipDecem...
The Burden Award
The Burden Award By Paul AndersonColorado Springs Chess Club President The 3-peat was the hot topic with this year’s Super Bowl, but it didn’t happen. No NFL team has been able to win three in a row in its 59 year histo...
Chess Habits
Sunday Night Chess By Paul Anderson Colorado Springs Chess Club President The Colorado Springs Chess Club is an affiliate of Chess.com and meets every Sunday night for online chess. We typically have a 30-minute, Blitz Aren...
Top Blogger
Top Blogger By Paul AndersonColorado Springs Chess Club President The Colorado Springs Chess Club is an affiliate of USCF and meets every Tuesday night for OTB chess. We typically have a month-long, Swiss tournament (G/90+30) at...
2023 Year-In-Review
Sunday Night Chess By Paul Anderson Colorado Springs Chess Club President The Colorado Springs Chess Club is an affiliate of Chess.com and meets every Sunday night for online chess. We typically have a 30-minute, Blitz Arena at 6:15pm follo...
The Library at Colorado Springs
The Library at Colorado Springs By Paul Anderson Colorado Springs Chess Club President The Colorado Springs Chess Club is an affiliate of USCF and meets every Tuesday night for OTB chess. We typically have a month-long, Swiss tournament (G/...
Overtime
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday-night, online, rapid tournaments. This was another event that I wasn't sure if I was going to be able join. Cal was playing the University of Washington thi...
Choose Your Weapon
Game Of The Week Thank you, Paul, for inviting me back for another installment of “Tim Brennan week!" Things got back to somewhat “normal” chess wise in the later part of 2021 after over a full year of things being shut down by the pandemic. ...
Pick Six
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday-night, online, rapid tournaments. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to play in this week's event since I was flying home from the Cal vs TCU football g...
Hall Of Shame
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday-night, online, rapid tournaments. This week we played a club match against the Colorado School of Mines Chess Club instead of our usual Swiss events. I met th...
I Chess Alone
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday-night, online, rapid tournaments. It was played by Koen Beaver and John Wagner. Koen started with the club online in February and has played in 12 events. Jo...
Ten Four
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's 4th Wednesday August Rapid OTB. After playing in several Blitz tournaments, Will Wolf requested a longer time control of G/10+4. The increment of 4 seconds seemed ...
Two For The Price Of Third
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday Night Chess events. It was a bit of an unusual tournament. I didn't get to play since I was at the Renaissance Festival again. So, I can only guess about t...
40 Move Challenge, Part II
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from my database of 1,030 standard-rated, USCF games. The database came to an abrupt halt on March 10, 2020 after my 42nd win over Mark "The Money-Man" McGough. Then the club was shut down. Mark is the...
Bad Habits
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday Night Chess. It was played by the top 2 seeds in the event, Brian Rountree and Jose Llacza. They both have Rapid ratings over 1900. How they got their rapid r...
Game Ten
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the book by David Edmonds and John Eidinow called Bobby Fischer Goes To War, How A Lone American Star Defeated The Soviet Chess Machine. I was travelling across the country this past week to my sister...
Tweed vs Whipps
Game Of The Week By Matt Grinberg Whitaker, though eventually awarded the International Master title by FIDE, is known not so much for what he did at the chessboard as for one singular thing he did away from the chessboard. I first heard of h...
Silver Fox
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday night online events. We have been meeting online since April of last year when the pandemic closed our physical location. The registration starts at 6pm, an...
The King Hunt
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from my first visit to the Parker Chess Club. The club is run by John Brezina, who played in the online Colorado Springs Chess Club events while the pandemic shut down our physical location and came down...
Blunders Are The Way
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from LM Brian Wall's email list. One of the things that the pandemic interrupted, besides Over-The-Board chess, was the reading of my Wallmails. I had formed a habit of stopping by the library to get on...
How It Started vs How It's Going
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Right Place Rapid Online. I was a late entrant to the event since I was a chess-playing monk at the Colorado Renaissance Festival during the day. It is nice that t...
Right Place, Wrong Time
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's 26th Annual City Speed Chess Championship. The club has normally held this special event in January at our long-time home in the Acacia Apartments. However, this p...
Lucky Charm
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday night event, Pin Is Mighty Rapid Online (4SS, G/10+10). The game was played by Jeff Fox, ex-City Champ and ex-officer of the Colorado Springs Chess Club, and...
P Is For Pin X
Game Of The Week A couple years back, I came up with a method to organize chess tactics. I called it the DROP Method. The DROP method is an acronym for the basic kinds of tactics. It is meant to remind you not to drop your pieces and help yo...
