The Story so far…

I’m done analyzing my games and tracking my results in a table as Simon Webb described to do in “Chess for Tigers”.  Some of the information that I got was a little surprising to me.
With White: 

After 1.e4 I will see the Sicilian 60% of the time. 
Half of my wins as white were due to an [...]

Ye Olde Pueblo Post Mortem.

Well, not the best games I’ve played.  But I had a good time.  I made a new friend and it was an entire weekend devoted to chess, so it couldn’t have been too terrible.  Best of all I learned a lot from this tourney.
Tourney Lessons Learned

My chess improvement is going to take a good long while, [...]

Oh the Humanities! (Ye Olde Pueblo Day 3)

So the pressure’s on God wants me to improve my play and win my last two games otherwise he will visit even more horrendous plaugues upon the city of Tucson.  Round 4 started late due to the weather the night before.  A few people hadn’t finished their games when the power was lost so round [...]

When the lights go out in Tucson (Ye Olde Pueblo Day 2)

I am up early and ready to play. I’m up against a class C player rated 1437 I am black and I am going to win! Here’s a link to the game.
I play what I think is a pretty good opening.  He plays the London which if you defend passively you can find yourself easily overrun and [...]

Ye Olde Pueblo day 1…I play against Shrek

So now you’re looking at the new layout and probably thinking what the hell happened?  Well I had an epiphany over the weekend at the tournament, it shall unfold over the next few days… 
So I arrive in Tucson on Friday at about 2pm wearing my most obnoxious Hawaiin shirt (it is a very LOUD ORANGE) I figure [...]

Here’s the game again, in old school format

This is alot of effort to show off one of my losses….I haven’t analyzed the game yet so any comments in parenthesis are initial notes.
1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 e6 4. Nf3 d5

5. Bb5 a6 6. Bxc6+ bxc6 7. O-O c4 8. d4 cxd3

9. cxd3 Bb4 10. Qa4 Qb6+ 11. Kh1 Bxc3 12. [...]

Once again I snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!

Alright this is the saddest loss I think I’ve had all year.  Click this link to see the pgn of the game.  As you go through it, don’t get confused I actually have white.  I just manage to blow the game out my ass that badly.  This is not boding well for the Tourney in [...]

More people need to read my blog

This was obviously a problem for me on Saturday as apparently two of my opponents had no idea that I was planning on winning all of my games this weekend!  After the days festivities I finished 2.5 (+2 -1 =1) for the tournament.  I beat a 1520, lost to a 1595 (oh so many rating [...]

I’ve come to a decision…

Well, I have one more week to get ready for Ye Olde Pueblo Tournament in Tucson.  What’s really sad is that I’m on vacation starting today.  What kind of geek takes a week’s vacation before a chess tournament?  This situation is so bad that nerds won’t even hang out with me now.  In my defense I took the vacation because [...]

I have a condition…And my sincerest apologies to the late Simon Webb

I have a problem, I’ve had it for a long time but it didn’t become apparent to me until I posted a comment on Warheits blog .  I recommended a book to him that I thought would help him out.  Apart from most of us admitting that we probably have too many chess books, and that recommending [...]