Lessons In Playing Better Chess

by | Aug 20, 2008 | General

I was one of those chess geeks in high school that people like to make jokes about. We would meet once a week as a team for a little instruction and to scrimmage for an hour or two, and we went to half a dozen tournaments a year to compare brains with other chess...

Leong Mun vs Jim Stitzel

by | Aug 20, 2008 | General

This game ended with a very satisfying “backdoor” checkmate. ###pgn### [Event “Online Chess”] [Site “Chess.com”] [Date “2008.08.18”] [Round “1”] [White “Leong Mun”] [Black “Jim...

Boris Ploszkiewicz vs Jim Stitzel

by | Aug 20, 2008 | General

This one was a much better game for me, despite the king-rook split I allowed him to have in the middle. ###pgn### [Event “Online Chess”] [Site “Chess.com”] [Date “2008.08.17”] [Round “1”] [White “Boris...

Christopher Bauer vs Jim Stitzel

by | Aug 20, 2008 | General

An example of a game where I simply made one bad decision after another. ###pgn### [Event “Online Chess”] [Site “Chess.com”] [Date “2008.08.18”] [Round “1”] [White “Christopher Bauer”] [Black “Jim...