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Giant Killer

Submitted by slack on Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:51am.

Last Wednesday I played the second round of a 3 week/3 round tournament called the Rated Quads. I had a suspicion that this game would be much more difficult than the first, and it was, but in ways I didn't quite expect. I was paired with Joe, wh... Read more »

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Rated Quads

Submitted by slack on Thu Nov 5, 2009 11:52am.

Last night I played the first round of the Rated Quads, which is a tournament my chess club is running. One game (G/75) every Wednesday for the next three weeks. I'll update this blog with tournament results as they happen. My first game was with... Read more »

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Conrad

Submitted by slack on Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:33pm.

Here are a couple games I played last Wednesday. It was my first time playing Conrad, who's only about 12 years old. He says his USCF rating is 1100-1200, but I think he played much better than that. Or maybe I just played really bad! ... Read more »

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Two games with a Candidate Master

Submitted by slack on Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:40pm.

Here are two recent games I played with CM ilmago. Both games are Fischer Random, or Chess 960 as it's known here, and both feature the same backrank assortment. Overall I am happy with the way I played. There were some moments when I played too a... Read more »

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