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Positional Sacrifices

Submitted by xMenace on Wed Jan 7, 2009 8:48am.

According to Wikipedia there are three basic types of sacrifices: Attack on the King, Development, and Strategic/Positional. The Positional Sacrifice is considered teh most difficult of the three: In a general sense, the aim of all true sacrifices... Read more »

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Perpetuating a Legacy

Submitted by xMenace on Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:56am.

Perpetual checks are not easy to come by, especially for noobs. This was one of my earliest upsets, a 1200 drawing a 1700 is an upset. The game was nothing special. It was actually quite sloppy on both parts, a typical low level game. I remember I... Read more »

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How to Prepare for a Game

Submitted by xMenace on Wed Nov 26, 2008 11:17am.

I'm still not playing at my strength. My chess.com rating is still nowhere near where it should be. I'm not upset. I'm learning and having fun. But I see players weaker than me OTB doing much better than me at Chess.com: - A 1627CFC player with a... Read more »

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Too many games

Submitted by xMenace on Wed Nov 5, 2008 10:49am.

How many games at once is too much? There were a few tourneys I wanted to participate in. We all want to do so much and very few have the patience to wait for the right time. I didn't. There were three thematic tourneys I really wanted to play in... Read more »

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Finishing

Submitted by xMenace on Wed Oct 1, 2008 9:32pm.

The hardest game to win is a won game. – Emanuel Lasker Have you ever launched a do or die attack only to have it fizzle out? I certainly have. Here's my latest example. At move 17 I saw a win. I really did! But I goofed. The move I didn't see ... Read more »

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Your Moment of Glory

Submitted by xMenace on Wed Sep 3, 2008 5:10pm.

I finally lost my first game after going undefeated for 20! Most of my wins were against far inferior opponents, but that was fine for me. Ten years away makes you a bit rusty. In my 21st game some of this lack of good playing habits caught up wit... Read more »

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Week 2

Submitted by xMenace on Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:49am.

I'm still undefeated! This does not in any way indicate that I'm good; rather it says that players  here, at least in the 1400-1600 range, are overrated compared to the OTB world. I realize that these players probably do not have a library of... Read more »

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Week 1 at Chess.com

Submitted by xMenace on Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:16pm.

I didn't join chess.com because I had a burning desire to play chess again. I joined because some online fiends from another forum were playing. They aren't even playing here. They joined 88chess.com, a Bulgarian site. I have no issues with Bulgar... Read more »

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