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Here's a position that arised in one of my correspondence games. I'm playing with the black pieces and my opponent's last move was 29.Rf3 to protect the knight on d3. This, however, is just an optical illusion like I showed to my opponent in this ... | Read More
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I play correspondence chess because I find it to be a very useful training tool. I'm really lazy to analyze my games after they are finished, so when I analyse a game afterwards, I use a chess engine to do the analysis for me. The reason why I'm s... | Read More
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This a funny position from one of my correspondence games. Well, funny to me because there was time control of 14d/move for this game and I still didn't see what my opponent could do in the following position, luckily my opponent didn't see it eit... | Read More
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Last round and second win in the tournament. I really like these weekend tournaments more than longer tournaments because the pressure of playing good games is divided into shorter periods of time. I play chess between these tournaments, of course... | Read More
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It is time for the 4th round game. I played again with the black pieces and the result was the same as it was on the previous occasion, I lost the game. This game was somewhat balanced until I turned too passive with the move 34...Re7. I have noti... | Read More
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It is really easy to mess up the game in time trouble, believe me, I know. In this game, my opponent was in huge time trouble for a very long time. If I remember correctly, he had less than 10 minutes left on his clock on move 37... I had close to... | Read More
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In this 2nd round game both players played rather badly. Sadly, I played worse than my opponent and lost the game. Maybe I was a bit overconfident in this game because the first round went so well... Well, I can make up other excuses for my rubbis... | Read More
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It's time once again to look at my tournament games. There were five rounds in this tournament and the time control for each game was 1h 30 min. This tournament started really well on my part, beating once more a player, whose rating was over 2000... | Read More
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It has been a long time without any updates on my blog. Reason for that is quite simple, I needed to concentrate on other things for a while. I probably won't update my blog daily in the future either, I will update it only when I feel like doing ... | Read More
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I thought that posting some training positions might be a little less time consuming than posting my games. The problem, however, is that I don't have a clear plan what kind of training positions I want to post here at my blog and deciding about t... | Read More