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WW's Wanderings

A look at the interesting games in the chess world as I see it - or at least the ones I see fit to share (generally my own!)

    • Round of the Tournament

      In my next round, I was black on board 2, paired against a very young FM. I'd say he reminds me of one of the "genius kids" that IM Pruess is always talking about, but he's at the club often enough, and I've seen him around often enough that he... | Read More

    • End of the Rapids and Start of the Main Event

      So in the 3rd round I was all the way down to playing a "C" player - the joys of the swiss system. It wasn't much of a game, but I'll give it here with some sparing comments.   So after this, I was in decent position to make a decent result wi... | Read More

    • Opening Traps and inaccuracies

      This past weekend, I decided to play in a 5-round FIDE tournament. I hadn't played OTB since January, so to get myself ready, I decided to play a 4-round G/30 tournament on Friday night. As it turns out, I don't think this was a great decision, bu... | Read More

    • The Bf8 sacrifice in the Dragon

      I know what you're thinking: How can there be a sacrifice that goes Bf8 regularly enough to be called "The Bf8 sacrifice"? It's hard to believe. But if you ever find yourself having opened up the h-file but can't quite find a way to land the knock... | Read More

    • Chess.com GM Challenge - Round 2

      Whew. I'm so glad this posted - I tried it and my browser locked up, but I was luckily able to copy everything. This is my analysis, aided by everyone in the chat and some extra time committed afterwords, of Pruess-Atalik from round 2 of the Chess... | Read More

    • Recent game

      More comments later | Read More

    • WW Analyzes #2

      This was from the 4th round of a recent 5-round tournament I played OTB. Both my opponent and I had lost one game (to the same incredibly-underrated kid) and won 2, and we both fairly well needed a win to be in decent contention. With that in min... | Read More

    • WW Analyzes #1 -

      I played this game against my first round opponent in a local OTB tournament, after he blundered a piece on move 4(!) in our tournament game. This was a skittles game played between rounds, so while we didn't have a clock, there was a general unsp... | Read More

    • WW Analyzes - Introduction

      I've decided to start a chess blog, mostly where I can show off my games, be they good or bad, and my ideas. Hopefully, it will be entertaining and/or instructive for you guys, and hopefully I'll attract a decent number of readers and we can get a... | Read More

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