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My Chess Life

I have too much free time and I love chess

London U1800 Championship Round 2

Submitted by ericmittens on Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:24pm.

In this round I played a 1200-something guy, I had black. I played like complete garbage the entire game and had a losing position at the end, but he blundered several times in a row and I was able to win rather easily after that. The tournament ... Read more »

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London U1800 Championship Round 1

Submitted by ericmittens on Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:20pm.

In the first round I was paired with an 1100 rated kid. I was happy to face a low rated player after nearly a year away from OTB competitive chess, but of course I played like crap and almost had to settle for a draw. Lucky for me after a long gam... Read more »

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London City Championships U1800

Submitted by ericmittens on Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:04pm.

Tomorrow I will be playing in the first round of the London City Championships. It is an 11(!) round event with one round every thursday night. The games are sudden-death 90min. This year they decided to break up the field into 2 sections (over an... Read more »

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Updates Updates

Submitted by ericmittens on Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:00am.

So I finally took the time to go to the London Chess Club last night. I did the whole joining and saying hello thing, everyone was very nice and it was quite a pleasant experience. I think I might make playing there a weekly habit. Anyway, they h... Read more »

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I review "Beating Unusual Chess Openings"

Submitted by ericmittens on Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:11pm.

In OTB tournaments I'd often see kids playing stuff like the grob, secretly hoping no one ever plays stuff like that against me...because I'd have no idea what to do! Those fearful days and nights are gone thanks to IM Richard Palliser's fantasti... Read more »

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I review "Fighting the Anti-King's Indians"

Submitted by ericmittens on Mon Oct 6, 2008 2:07pm.

Hello chess friends, ever get tired of those annoying non-mainline d4 openings? They're lame, they suck all the enjoyment out of chess, but damnit they're popular! To all those who don't have the slightest clue what to do against these systems, I... Read more »

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1602 on CTS

Submitted by ericmittens on Sat Aug 23, 2008 2:34pm.

After 28200 tries I have cracked the 1600 barrier on the chess tactics server! Woohoo! My accuracy is at 75.1% which is about 10% higher than when I started out. I believe my first rating was around 1200, and I have been doing 200 tactics nearly e... Read more »

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I Review "Art of Attack in Chess"

Submitted by ericmittens on Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:32am.

I guess there are two questions to be asked in a review of this book. This first of which is, "Is this the greatest book ever written on the subject of attacking play?" and secondly, "Will it help my chess?" As to the first question the answer i... Read more »

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My New Bible

Submitted by ericmittens on Sun Aug 3, 2008 5:24pm.

http://www.ukgamesshop.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=chnew454&Category_Code=   All the middle aged dudes down at the club who can't be bothered to learn opening theory are going to have a rough time when this... Read more »

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I'm a philanthropist!

Submitted by ericmittens on Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:18pm.

Ahh the joy of giving. Due to a lack of space on my bookshelf I decided to donate a portion of my chess book collection to my local library. The library has a chess club that meets there once a week, and their collection of chess related books i... Read more »

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