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Future chess player arrives early

Submitted by snits on Sun Nov 1, 2009 12:40am.

The past month has been a hectic one. My daughter arrived 8 weeks early, on October 8th, and came home from the hospital on the 26th. She cute as can be, and constantly has me running to see what is the cause of the latest noise to emanate from he... Read more »

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Brain not working

Submitted by snits on Mon Oct 5, 2009 12:19am.

  This past week my brain seemed to stop working when it came to solving tactical problems in the trainer. I am guessing it was just exhaustion due to lack of sleep from staying up to follow the games in Nanjing, but it was a bit disconcerting... Read more »

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King Hunt

Submitted by snits on Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:07pm.

A nice King Hunt from another game of mine in the Ruy Lopez Thematic. Still a couple moves to go, but it is forced mate now.   Read more »

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Nice game from Ruy Lopez Thematic

Submitted by snits on Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:17am.

Here is a game that finished today from the latest round of the Ruy Lopez thematic. Until 25..Rf7 the pucker factor was pretty high. While I had an advantage and the initiative if I misstepped Black had mating threats waiting. The note to 22..f5 ... Read more »

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A Couple Lasker Games

Submitted by snits on Sat May 2, 2009 1:21am.

Here are 2 Lasker games I have played through the last couple days as I continue to work through Reti's Masters of the Chess Board.     This first game seems to be stored with different move orders depending on where you find it. I have upl... Read more »

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Tregubov - Belov, St. Petersburg 2002

Submitted by snits on Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:05am.

I just played through this nice game by Tregubov. Read more »

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Training Update

Submitted by snits on Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:27am.

Still doing my daily routine of tactics problems on the trainer. I spent some time this past week looking at building a repertoire, and spent some time on a couple of lines in the French and the Caro-Kann since I play 1.e4 . Looking at the Caro-Ka... Read more »

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Training Update

Submitted by snits on Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:17am.

Spent 4 days in LA for the Easter/Passover holiday at my wife's uncles place. Didn't get any tactics training in, but I did spend some time reading Andy Soltis' How to Choose a Chess Move. Not sure why I jumped into that while I have other books ... Read more »

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Poor Thought Process

Submitted by snits on Sun Apr 5, 2009 5:55pm.

I played over the board for the 1st time in about 8 months today and it really showed. Though I played and lost twice to a 1900 player, which in itself isn't really a bad thing, the way I lost was pretty bad. Both cases involved not looking at wha... Read more »

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Training Update

Submitted by snits on Sun Apr 5, 2009 1:48am.

Continued to work my daily tactics problems. Still in the 2000-2200 range rating wise. I increased my success % by a couple tenths of a percent.  I have started to work through Reti's Masters of the Chess Board. I have finished the sections on A... Read more »

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