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    • How Do You Analyze Against Low Rated Players?

      Here is a question that I have pondered over many many times while trying to analyze my active games. Now before it gets crazy up in here let me first off admit that I am including myself in this topic since I am a low rated player too! Okay so h... | Read More

      • geer_matt
      • | Aug 29, 2011
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    • Battle of the Engines!!! Part 1

      Here we have a game of chess engines! White = Rybka 3 - Black = Crafty 23.0. Rybka whooped some butt. I played it out with colors exchanged (giving Crafty the white pieces, and Rybka still whooped butt). Enjoy these fine chess moves, it was a bri... | Read More

      • geer_matt
      • | Jul 16, 2011
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    • Fight! You are not GM's...

      Fight to the finish, you are not GM's you can't calculate 7 or 10 moves ahead. Opponents blunder all the time you might catch back up. Plus its good experience especially if it makes it to the end game. Push the passed pawns. Two things to fight t... | Read More

      • geer_matt
      • | Jul 12, 2011
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    • Don't get stuck in concrete, adapt.

      Here is a recent live chess game of  mine that I felt I could have done a lot better. I usually blunder my way through openings and often times find myself down, but I also that one of my strengths is towards the end game or applying pressure o... | Read More

      • geer_matt
      • | Jul 10, 2011
      • | 189 views
      • | 3 comments
    • Arrogance

      My artistry on the chess board can not be confined by time and space, my moves are infinite and deep, dangerous and deadly | Read More

      • geer_matt
      • | Nov 23, 2009
      • | 356 views
      • | 2 comments
    • My chess tactics and ideas

       When I play chess I have two plans Plan:A  and Plan:B, plan B is to enforce plan A. "When I sit down to play a game of chess I expect to win". A quote from I.M. David Pruess. That saying cracks me up so simple yet so direct. | Read More

      • geer_matt
      • | Nov 6, 2009
      • | 376 views
      • | 3 comments