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Read the title, sounds delicious right? If you said yes… I have no comment. Four things (along with the people who said yes) might seem strange:
1. Macaroni? Strawberries, syrup, nutella, ice cream, etc. all seem preferable on crepes.
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In honor of IM Greg Shahade’s recent Death Match win, I have named the title of my blog after him. So first of all, congratulations to him!
But the title has less to do with his victory and more to do with Greg’s feelings about draws (he... | Read More
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Dreams… as a Chess player, what are my dreams? As a Chess player, what are your dreams? Is there a title you want? For me, of course, right now I want the title IM (International Master) and someday I hope to be a Super GM (Grand Master)... | Read More
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We have a lot of interesting rules that can confuse people in Chess; the beginning rules or things that a lot of people find unusual when first learning about Chess would be things like En Passant and Castling. Then we start getting into the tou... | Read More
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Chess can be very hard… Chess IS very hard. Recently I discovered just how hard it can be. I was invited by Susan Polgar to play in the Spice Cup in the C section. Now for a lot of tournaments it might seem like the C Group might be a li... | Read More
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Often after we hit one of our big goals, we tend to be satisfied for a while and have a hard time stepping it up/taking it to the next level. I have even found that sometimes we might do the opposite. You’ve hit one of your goals and don’t... | Read More
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Finally!!! After sitting at 2280--2296ish on my FIDE Rating, it finally went over 2300 after my last tournament which earned me the FIDE Master title!! It was at the 1st Metropolitan International a 9-round tournament with some very strong GMs... | Read More
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It might have seemed like I died and fell off the planet of blogging… but! It has just been a crazy, but awesome summer for me. I realize the US Junior was back in June, but it really has been that crazy of a summer. As I mentioned in my l... | Read More
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Get ready for an account of one if not the best tournament I have ever been to: The 2011 US Junior Closed Championship! This tournament takes place in the Saint Louis Chess Club which if you haven’t been there yet, you really should!! ... | Read More
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How much do you love chess? Enough to spend an entire month (minus two days) dedicated completely to chess? Well, I definitely love it that much because that is exactly what I did!! Starting on June 10th going to July 8th it was one FUN ch... | Read More