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Nice checkmate!

Submitted by cjus on Sun Aug 23, 2009 12:16pm.

White mates in five moves: Read more »

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Creating an online chess note book

Submitted by cjus on Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:52pm.

Creating an online chess note book A great way of improving your game is to maintain a chess note book containing your chessic insights. There are are number of different ways of going about this. Many players choose to store and annotate ... Read more »

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Worse game since I got back into chess

Submitted by cjus on Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:10pm.

We all have games like this... games we'd rather not reflect on.  However, it's important to review our games, even games we should never have won. Read more »

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Practice Game

Submitted by cjus on Sun Jan 4, 2009 2:26am.

The following is a practice game. White recieved help from several people while Black played nonchalantly to his own detriment. The game is full of twist and turns and illustrates the old chess adage that "the most difficult game to win is a won g... Read more »

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Overrated.

Submitted by cjus on Fri Jan 2, 2009 9:42pm.

I've played chess on and off again since age seven. Last summer I joined the PlayTheImmortalGame.com site and later Chess.com.  Since that time I've seen my rating skyrocket as a result of wins against 1600 and 1700 rated players.   Am I reall... Read more »

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Friendly game at work

Submitted by cjus on Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:06pm.

Chess.com has been a hit with some of the folks (male and female) at the office.  I recently played a game against a group at work.  The group played the black pieces while I played as white.  We tried to use chess.com's vote chess feature to h... Read more »

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