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Well this was an interesting game. It was part of a rapid tournament played over the weekend... My first acceptable score (in OTB) vs a 2200... I've played 2 (3?) others in the past with a rating of 2200 or around there... scoring negativel... Read more »
Here, I would like to present a detailed analysis of the fourth game in an ongoing match between chess.com member 'Shuttlechess92' and myself. Prior to this game I led the match 2-1 (all three games were decisive victories for the white pieces, t... Read more »
Here's a highlight game from the latest tournament I attended. It was my first rapid tournament and my performance score was pretty decent (thanks to a series of strong opponents rather than my own strong play). This is a rather quick tac... Read more »
Here is an interesting game I recently played where the opening immediately turned into an incredibly deep tactical battle where there was no going back from move 1. I've found that as I get stronger, I tend to get a little lazy tactically, opti... Read more »
A lot of class players (as I myself am at the moment) have a tendency to overvalue material. Becoming accustomed to simply taking a pawn and then trading everything off (which fellow class players seem to be agreeable to), they see no possible r... Read more »
This blog is more for me than you guys :P. I just need somewhere to save these games w/ annotations. Read more »
Maybe I've been reading too much Nimzovich lately but I have to say the whole idea behind an 'optimistic' struggle for the center (in the sense that once you've gained control you 'hope' to have a winning plan) has inspired me to try very unorthod... Read more »
Against an experienced player, it is said that the game must be won once in the opening, again in the midgame, and then again in the endgame. Often times beautiful midgame play falls apart thanks to a small endgame innacuracy. Unfortunately fo... Read more »
Before I post my latest tournament game, I'd like to mention that I am not a positional chess player in the slightest. In this tournament both of my losses came from over-agressive speculative play designed to turn a slow position into a tactica... Read more »
The more I study 'positional chess', thanks to Jeremy Silman and the Chess Mentor, the more I realize that the very term is misleading. In a 'tactical' game, you still want your pieces on their best squares, and in a 'positional' game you're sti... Read more »
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