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Just another chess blog: MCC Allegro (31/1/2015)

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Just another chess blog. Sunday, February 1, 2015. Fantastic allegro today with 46 players of all levels and ages enjoying a friendly atmosphere at the club. The event was taken out by the returning IM James Morris with a 7/7 picket fence over the field. Photos and final standing follow:. The allegro is on every Saturday starting at 2pm. Just show up, no need to enter in advance! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscirbe to this blog! Picture Window template. Template images by EricHood.

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Just another chess blog: End of an era, and the start of another!

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Just another chess blog. Monday, January 19, 2015. End of an era, and the start of another! End of an era! Thank you to the committee and volunteers at the Melbourne Chess Club for all of your support this year. Looking back, we achieved more than I'd hoped or thought possible. Best of luck to the first female President of the MCC in our 149 year history. Go Elizabeth! Winning #unforgettable #goElizabeth #thanks. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscirbe to this blog!

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Just another chess blog: Endgame!

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Just another chess blog. Tuesday, March 3, 2015. It's been a while since I've played an end-game. I had an opening advantage, which I converted into a difficult late middle-game/early ending, which I converted into a positive Bishop V Knight ending where it felt like black had an advantage. Didn't stop it being a really tricky 'race' type situation where one wasted tempo lost the game. 46. f4! Was more accurate than 46. Ke3? As for the opening, watching all those Hjorth videos helped a bit with the e5?

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Just another chess blog: c3 Sicilian!

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Just another chess blog. Tuesday, February 3, 2015. First round of the MCC Championship drew a healthy 51 players. I was lucky enough to draw black against IM James Morris and I learned that it's very difficult to play against the c3 Sicilian if you don't realise you're meant to play e5 as black! Or some sort of Bg4 stuff). Here's the game:. Your web browser and/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscirbe to this blog!

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Just another chess blog: f3-e4 in the Nimzo-Larsen (PATENT PENDING)

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Just another chess blog. Tuesday, March 17, 2015. F3-e4 in the Nimzo-Larsen (PATENT PENDING). I wish I could tell you I calculated the Nxe4 - Qh4 tactic; it was more one of those *lets go of the piece*. And "Oh" moments. That said, I hustled well and crafted some sort of position that made problems for him. Mehmedalija fell into the trap of trying to blitz me when he had 45 minutes to my 2 and you can see from the game it didn't work out. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscirbe to this blog!

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Just another chess blog: Wild swings of over-optimism, over-pessimism and under-focus!

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Just another chess blog. Thursday, March 26, 2015. Wild swings of over-optimism, over-pessimism and under-focus! Did I just make up a few words? Probably. My game on Monday night had all the usual trademarks of players who learn chess from computers:. Move 13: Be8. Wild. Over-confidence: " Queenside is tied up, this child will now strategically crack like an egg. Just play slowly and wait for the inevitable strategic crumble. Pessimism: " Holy crap. Ne2. How did I miss that? If I put the wrong knight on ...

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Country Victoria | Coffee House Chess

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Just another WordPress.com weblog. 2010 Victorian Teams Championship. July 6, 2010. Caroline and I drove out of Melbourne yesterday up the Hume Freeway to Wangaratta, where we are basing ourselves for a couple of days. First thing this morning we headed up the Great Alpine Road without a clear idea of where we were going to end up. We decided to go to Beechworth first, where we had breakfast at the famous Beechworth Bakery. A friendly Kookaburra in Bright. Is the real photographer in the family. You are ...

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Just another chess blog: Round II

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Just another chess blog. Monday, February 9, 2015. Was an interesting game. There were a couple of moments I could've tried to calculate moves like c5 or e5 but I think the slower plans were just as good. There have been some suggestions I may have over-prepared d4;). Your web browser and/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard. February 11, 2015 at 2:28 AM. Nice game, Paul, with a great finish. :-). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscirbe to this blog!

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Just another chess blog: And the lesson is..... something

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Just another chess blog. Tuesday, February 17, 2015. And the lesson is. something. Unfortunately I looked at a few Jobava games this afternoon which prompted me to try something creative in the opening. Didn't quite work out; white is doing fine up until losing the exchange, but I had to use half my pieces to try to prove that I'd trapped black's h5 knight. which. sort of means half my pieces are trapped:D (Obviously time trouble is factor at the end of this one). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).