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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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