The Wrong Strategy - Rounding Off (At Least for the Time Being)
Over the last few articles I’ve been looking at this position (see first diagram):
Sorry I’ve been quiet for the last week or so. I have spent some time looking at this position - trying to pick my way through the thickets of variations resulting from black going through with the plan of …b5-b4.
There are […]
The Wrong Strategy?
It’s high time I looked at another of my games!
Back in January this year (2008) I played in the Major section (under Elo 1920/ECF 165) of the Dudley Spectrum tournament. There are a couple of games from this tournament I need to analyse, because in each of the two games I believe I achieved winning […]
Comedy of Errors but an Eventful Draw
Last month (April 2008) I played in the Major tournament in the Nottingham Chess Congress. This was for players with an ECF grade of 160 (about 1880 Elo) or under.
Here is my final round game playing white against M. Harris (139 ECF / 1720 Elo). It was quite an eventful game, but also quite a […]
An Interesting Defeat in the Dutch Defence
I recently played in the Hereford Spectrum Chess Congress (see the Spectrum Chess web site for more details). It was a five round swiss system event, and I (like many others) took a bye in round three (Sat evening), so I actually played four games over the board. I didn’t do very well, scoring only […]