Recovering From A Pawn Fork…

July 12, 2015 David Hurley 0

In this game, played out between myself (White, 1672) and Dr. M (Black, unranked) on Wednesday evening, I achieved a quick and perhaps undeserved victory after a lazy series of fast-paced opening moves that culminated in an egregious blunder in which I plonked my Bishop on d3, bringing on an obvious [Read more…]

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Checkmate via a Sham Queen Sacrifice…

April 19, 2013 David Hurley 0

Last night’s game of chess against Dr M was one of our more satisfying encounters as neither of us made any outrageous blunders until Dr M moved his Knight to d4 at the end of the middle game. Careful opening moves led into a sharp middle game and, from my [Read more…]

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Kindle Chess Books Among Other Things

November 20, 2012 David Hurley 0

I have been working with a couple of Kindle chess books recently. Back in the summer I had accumulated enough “Member Rewards Points” on the Tripleclicks website to reward myself with a free Kindle Touch with the intention taking it with me on our summer holiday. For some reason, however, [Read more…]