Wang’s Adventures with the Sicilian Part 1: Waxing philosophical (no actual game analysis yet)

I played in a local tournament a couple of weeks ago.  Suffice to say that it did not go well for me.  There was a higher turnout for this tournament than the previous ones so the cutoff for the open section was higher.  They cut us off at 1350 not 1250.  That means that I [...]

Blog Carnival!

I have been invited to a chess blog carnival!  Ok until Jack Le Moine invited me to one I didn’t even know that these existed or what they were.  But he lays it all out here.  So I will be submitting my two best posts on for the carnival. I guess due to the popularity [...]

Michael de la Maza – The final verdict

Well before I get into the meat of this weeks first post I want to acknowledge some new blog links.  I recently found out that Nobis and Atomic Patzer added me to their blog rolls.  They weren’t guys that I initially read when I started my blog so I never even knew that they had [...]

The good thing about having a blog

The first week of the new training program didn’t go so well.   Real life stepped in again, and between work and errands that had to get done this week I was taken off track.  So how did I respond?  Well certainly you all can probably guess that I am a pretty rational fellow, a man [...]