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It's been a while since my last blog post, but hey, I'm in the mood for love... um, blogging -- AND I so I figured it was time to let you all know an important piece of "Chess.com News". I'll give you some of my most recent games (I have only play... | Read More
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By popular request, here are all the games from this past weekend's ACE Chess Arizona State Championship. Enjoy these, and check out my two mid-tourney blogs for a more personal perspective. Also, I plan a bigger post tourney article here soon... ... | Read More
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Ouch!!! I just got done losing one of the most painful, frustrating games of my life! By losing this last round (round 4) to IM Joel Banawa, I effectively killed my chances for first place in this year's ACE Chess Arizona State Championship, and l... | Read More
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After two rounds, the competition has been fierce here at the ACE Chess Arizona State Championships! Your blogger is a little under the weather, but maintaining a decent performance thus far.
Despite blowing a winning position out of the opening... | Read More
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I know, I know... I promised you all a post-tourney blog after the Northern California International and I TOTALLY dropped the ball ! Truth be told, I think I have an easier time blogging right after and event that goes badly... Likely my need/add... | Read More
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As many of you may have seen yesterday, I updated Chess.com (via a comment to my article here, and a forum thread here) that IM Greg Shahade's latest project -- Xtreme Chess -- had released it's second episode on YouTube. Watch it here real quick:... | Read More
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...But how many times you get up, right? Or is that just something losers tell themselves after a particularly hard beating? Well, in any case, it's a saying I have used to remind myself of the big picture whenever things get tough. Right now, as... | Read More
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Quickly, I wanted to share with the Chess.com Community that I recently watched this video on YouTube, and was super pumped about it's potential to put chess "under the spotlight"! This video should be enjoyable for many people -- both young and o... | Read More
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You dress up like a crazy person at the 2010 SPICE Cup tournament... yeah, that's me!
No, actually not the purpose of this post ... I haven't blogged in a while, as I've simply been short of "inspiration" (or is it perspiration???) and/or things... | Read More
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It's always a nice feeling when you know you didn't play that well (or perhaps you might have played like *%$* ) -- yet somehow, you managed a decent peformance score anyway. For me, that was certainly the case at last weekend's Metropolitan Inter... | Read More