by Jim Stitzel | Aug 25, 2008 | General
I dug myself into – and out of – a couple of holes in this game. My errors ultimately ended up being more than I could recover from, though. ###pgn### [Event “Online Chess”] [Site “Chess.com”] [Date “2008.08.23”] [Round...
by Jim Stitzel | Aug 25, 2008 | General
###pgn### [Event “Online Chess”] [Site “Chess.com”] [Date “2008.08.21”] [Round “1”] [White “Jim Stitzel”] [Black “Matias S.”] [Result “0-1”] [WhiteElo “1365”] [BlackElo...
by Jim Stitzel | Aug 22, 2008 | General
Back to black for this game. You may notice that I like to open with the King’s Knight/King’s Pawn and then the King’s Bishop, where possible. This opens me up to castle very early in the game and get the King’s Rook into play that much sooner...
by Jim Stitzel | Aug 22, 2008 | General
Boris wanted to run a ‘Best Two Out of Three’ match, and this game was just as interesting and fun as the first. ###pgn### [Event “Online Chess”] [Site “Chess.com”] [Date “2008.08.18”] [Round “1”] [White...
by Jim Stitzel | Aug 22, 2008 | General
This game is a good example of what happens when you forget the “four principles”:http://shamuswrites.com/2008/08/20/lessons-in-playing-better-chess/ I laid out the other day. In this case, I became so focused on cornering his Queen and removing it from...
by Jim Stitzel | Aug 21, 2008 | General
I just noticed – I seem to be playing black a lot lately. ###pgn### [Event “Online Chess”] [Site “Chess.com”] [Date “2008.08.18”] [Round “1”] [White “Qisheng Xie”] [Black “Jim Stitzel”]...
