I was wondering if anyone knows of any chess arhaeology or historically interesting areas in the Middle East? I've been living out there for a bit now and am likely to be here for a while longer and thought that perhaps Iran has the most obvious a...
In the spirit of haloween I have decided to try and give a dusting off to the frankenstein-dracula varaition. Let's all try to give this old classic a chance and have a spooktacular game!! :p
Well I had a very nice quiet summer, and figured it was time to check in again on here. I have been doing a lot of computer puzzle chess between my GTA 5 sessions recently, and I think I am slowly improving. The real trick is to be able to take th...
I have been enjoying watching some of chess.coms fine back catalogue of video content, and is it just me or is it basically no contest as to who makes the best videos? Danny Rensch kills it in every single video, with not a poor performance amongs...
I am having a terrible run recently, watching my blitz rating fall like a lead baloon. I have lost almost 100 rating points recently, through a combination of bad opening decisions and some serious blunders. I am hoping I can take some time out th...
Following on from my previous post I was wondering if any of you might have some suggestions for me. I have an upcoming long plane journey (10h+), if I were to really get into one chess book what should it be?
Hey again all, I have been thinking a bit about chess education. When I was at school we had a teacher who taught us the fundamnetals of chess, he was a relatively strong player around 2000 and his lessons were of great use to me. However I have n...
Just finished a quick blitz game with a terrible blunder by my opponent, and the inevitable (it seems) abandoning of the game. I really dont understand why people would abandon a game? Why not just resign? All it does is waste 60 seconds extra of ...
I seem to have been having a rather erratice time of it lately in the blitz world. A combination of a decision to try for fried liver snacks where I could find them, and playing too many games while I am also busy with other stuff has led to a big...
Just finished playing a game where I decided to give the hedgehog a try once more. I've not had the chance to play it in a long time, but thought that a 5 minute game would be the ideal place to bring him out of hibernation! He served me well, and...
I don't get to play much OTB these days, with work and travel and the fact that my friends just dont care. The other half of the problem is that I've always been more attracted to 5-10 minute games, all my tournament successes came at short time i...
Been thinking about the F-D Vienna game recently, been playing a few variations OTB but seem to be struggling against one player who makes Avoiding the Queen Swap more and more unattractive. Wondering about any thoughts on maintaing good chances ...
I am a keen caro-kann player, but recently I have been having difficulty handling 3. c4. I go for the caro-kann as I learned as a youngster to detest the lonley bishop of the french but I am having real trouble combatting the computers c4 with a r...
