Perseverance Update

Mental discipline and hard work improves luck. James Stripes My success finally winning a club championship at the Spokane Chess Club inc...

Bishop versus Knight Update

The 25th annual Dave Collyer Memorial chess tournament is this weekend. I have played in more than half of them, perhaps fifteen. My best ye...

Oops Update

When I encountered this exercise at Chess.com's Tactics Trainer, I spent nearly a minute calculating the knight forks and threatened d...

Blunders Update

An appalling number of chess games are lost (and won) because a player puts a piece where it is free for the taking. Chess players use the t...

Assess the Pawn Ending Update

Black to move Black exchanged rooks and went on to win. Was the rook exchange technically correct?

Blundering into Victory Update

On Monday, David Griffin and I met at the Spokane Valley Library to play our game in the Spokane Contenders. This six player round robin beg...

Blunderful Update

I enjoy playing the Greco gambit in blitz,* but sometimes my opponents throw me a curve. An online blitz game this morning after watching mo...

Good Blitz, Bad Blitz Update

Blitz chess is popular and fun. It also can be useful as a training tool. On the other hand, blitz can reinforce bad habits by cultivating s...