After reading about the death of Julian the Apostate in Dr M’s “History in English” lesson on Wednesday 4th July, we settled down to a couple of games of chess. In this game, Dr M attacks as if he is playing shogi (Japanese chess) and neglected to defend his King’s [Read more…]
Having comfortably won the first of our two games of chess on Wednesday, I went into the second game with far too much complacency, which led to a lackadaisical opening and middle game… Thankfully, the battery in the digital movie camera ran out of juice, but enough of the game [Read more…]
Last Wednesday evening, after our History in English class, Dr. M and I played two games of chess. Dr M kindly allowed me to film the games as a way to keep records without have to go through the rigmarole of taking notes. In the first game, Dr M made [Read more…]
The Grand Finale of the Xtreme Chess Championships was played out in New York between 13-year-old Justus Williams & Stanford Student Elliott Liu few weeks ago. I got hooked on this mini series right from the beginning and was happy to see these two competitors make it to the final, [Read more…]
I’ve recently been playing a lot of chess games on the Chess Free App for my Android Motorola Xoom . The engine uses the Treebeard programme, which is said to imitate a more human approach to playing chess. Treebeard was developed by Jeff Rollason, CEO and founder of the independent UK [Read more…]
I mentioned in a previous post that I “plucked Gerald Abrahams’ Teach Yourself Chess from the bookshelf and turned to Chapter VII ‘Illustrative Games’ at the back of the book” with the intention of learning one game at a time, at the rate of one game a month. I promised [Read more…]
The semi finals of the XChess Championships offer some more excellent chess entertainment and two very interesting games. Once again Justus Williams comes up with some nice stuff under extreme time pressure. In the second game Elliott Liu produced a fine series of sacrifices to deliver a great win and [Read more…]
While searching for information on replies to the Zukertort opening the other night I came across the X Chess Championships television series that pits young chess players against each other in a “chess reality tv show”. I was instantly hooked! These are fast games between young players; each player has [Read more…]
I lost the game of chess that I played against Dr M on 18th January, and the two games previous to that had ended in draws, so it was imperative that I at least avoid defeat on Monday 30th January. Well, I managed to win, twice, but only by the [Read more…]
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