Draconis's Blog

• QGA 15 move Blowout

  Here is a 15 move "miniature" in the Queen's Gambit Accepted that I played yesterday in Live Bullet Chess. Please play through the game to see my comments.   I take some pride in the fact that in computer analysis aftewards, there was only one... | Read More

  • Draconis
  • | May 13 2012
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• The Ever Popular (and Incorrect) Marshall Defense

  This is a public service announcement to all of those players who, facing 1.d4! and 2.c4! reply with either 1...d5 and 2...Nf6 or 1...Nf6 and 2...d5. You are choosing an incorrect, inferior defense... The Marshall (or American) Defense   Â... | Read More

  • Draconis
  • | Jul 22 2011
  • | 421 views
  • | 3 comments

• Why There's No Money in Chess

  Having just read yet another comment (in Mig's chess blog) bemoaning the rather sad economic status of professional chess, and the low incomes and status which accrue to its practitioners, I was motivated to contribute my own thoughts on the matte... | Read More

  • Draconis
  • | Apr 11 2010
  • | 643 views
  • | 4 comments

• Computer beats book, again

  Another in the continuing series of the computer disagreeing with GM book analysis.Soltis, The Wisest Things..., p. 13, Karpov - Polugayevsky, QF6, 1974                                     First of all, the G... | Read More

  • Draconis
  • | Apr 19 2009
  • | 284 views
  • | 3 comments