Random thoughts about the game
When most people think about the best game they ever played, they usually remember an unexpected Queen sacrifice or perhaps a pawn checkmate. This is nothing like that; it is completely situational the game within the only tournament I ever played, the opponent, and how well I played. So sit back, grab a glass [ ]
In my course, The Classical Bird for Club Players, I received a question about this position. The course states, Taking the Knight is a slightly better move, but we want to keep things as simple and consistent as possible, so with a single exception, we will wait until Black forces our hand. The question was [ ]
In March 2026, I made the decision to improve my chess game. This was not an easy decision, because when I do something like this, I feel compelled to do it to my absolute best. This meant that I would need to not only figure out how to do it, but also how to find [ ]
There was a time when I cared whether or not my opponent was cheating. Following a loss, sometimes I would become suspicious that my opponent may have had assistance, and one of what I felt were the telling indicators was their accuracy percentage. As a club player, it was (and still is) typical for me [ ]
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