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Hello again,
I finally found the time to reduce the number of my games, so that I can annotate more (which will hopefully help me improve). So here are two miniatures from my recent games. In the first one my opponent really underestimated th... | Read More
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Hello everybody,
I am back again with another game of mine. When I was new to chess, I used to play without a concrete plan the most of the time. But this is bad for your chess improvement, so I finally got round to think more about my goals ... | Read More
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Hello,
In my last game, i probably made only one big mistake which was not so easy to make out as one for me for a long time. I was really wondering, where i misplayed, where i left my winning chances, but in retrospect i finally found my mis... | Read More
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Hello chess players,
today i want to share with you another game against the Sokolsky (1.b4). And like last time (http://blog.chess.com/sirprim/hunting-an-orang-utang) i forced my opponent to play a gambit line which i still think is the main dra... | Read More
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Hello again,
today i present you a game against the Orang-Utang opening (1.b4), which is also called the Polish Opening or the Sokolsky Opening. You can defend against this move with many different possibilities, e.g. taking a Kings Indian or... | Read More
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Hello again,
this time i have annotated a game, in which i find it hard to pinpoint my mistakes. There is no big blunder, it is rather small inaccuracies that add up. I included my thoughts in the annotations, maybe they are helpful to someon... | Read More
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Hello again,
i recently played a game of chess960 here on chess.com, which was completely crazy. I was totally upset, because i blundered on move 2!! This shows how inexperienced i am with chess960. In chess960 one really has to be aware of e... | Read More
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Hello,
todays game was played on the live chess server with 15 minutes time control which i am not used to. It does not come surprisingly that i got myself some time mismanagement, luckily an easily repairable one: i used too few time to think in... | Read More
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The next game i finished was an interesting and long struggle. Why? Because it had only one serious error in 50 moves! There are definitely some inaccuracies along the way, but i don't have the skill yet to fully exploit those. This one error prov... | Read More
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Just recently i played a game here on chess.com that reinforced my belief in basic principles. As the game left book on move 10 (at least for me), i already equalized but was unfamiliar with the arising position. But nevertheless using basic princ... | Read More