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3 down, one to go

Submitted by piemonkeydude on Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:20pm.

yesterday, I competed in a regional tournament, to determine who was going to represent their school and city in nationals on December 12. And I'm pretty estatic cause I won first place in my division. So far, I've won the school tournamen... Read more »

Tournaments in PR

Submitted by piemonkeydude on Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:34pm.

I'm very eager for November to come, because it's the start of the district school tournaments in Puerto Rico. I know I can make it all the way up to Nationals and win, but it can't hurt to look up on other openings, does anyone recome... Read more »

monkeying around in blitz chess

Submitted by piemonkeydude on Fri Sep 7, 2007 10:21pm.

i'm very proud of this game.I was experimenting with teories about giving up 2 heavy hiters(a knight and a bishop) in order to achieve better positioning and ruin my opponent's chance to castle. once again, I am bronzepawn. As I've st... Read more »

1st king's gambit declined

Submitted by piemonkeydude on Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:20pm.

hey all. I was trying out the king's gambit since i've seen it in like a thousand games. I did this in a blitz game of 30 min, without actually trying to win, the main goal was to see how I did using it, and I won =). I played it in chess... Read more »

Puerto Rico v.s. Puerto Rico

Submitted by piemonkeydude on Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:57pm.

hey yall. this is one of my games as "el complicado" in chesshere.com. in here  I play as black. I truly belived my friend  had this game won, but end games are always unpredictable. Read more »

2nd of the Capa games: David Janowski v.s. Capa

Submitted by piemonkeydude on Sat Aug 4, 2007 11:52am.

hey all. this is the second of the Capa games that I mentioned. in this game, Capa rocks David Janowski's game with an incredible Slav defence, in an unnusual manner indeed. I hope u all enjoy it. Read more »

1st of the Capa games: Lasker v.s. Capa

Submitted by piemonkeydude on Wed Aug 1, 2007 11:22pm.

hey all. This is the first of the Capa games that I promised. This is when Capa faced off against Emanuel Lasker in 1921 for the World Championship. Hope you all enjoy it. It's actually quite funny, because at first I was watching how the gam... Read more »

Capablanca's games.

Submitted by piemonkeydude on Wed Aug 1, 2007 1:40pm.

What's up everybody? I decided that for the following weeks, I'm going to post some of my favorite games from my favorite GM, Capablanca, hope u all enjoy them. Maybe the following weeks, I'll post some of Fischer's, or Alekhine... Read more »

Favorite masters: Capa v.s. Alekhine

Submitted by piemonkeydude on Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:32pm.

these 2 I consider to be the pioneers of the game. This is one of my favorite games, when Capablanca and Alekhine faced off in Nottingham. Read more »