Last weekend a Bristol Centenary & WECU Championship chess tournament was played in Bristol, UK. In the open section of this tournament 63 players competed for the West of England Chess Champion title. Besides the participation of two inte...
Hi! I opened the Game review page yesterday and was in for a bit of a surprise - my three moves in a row were marked as Excellent by the computer. Here's the game: Thanks for reading!
"Have you forgotten how to play chess yet?" - started with this question my friend Oleksiy, informing me that a Rapid chess tournament will coming in ukrainian city Dnipro next Saturday. Can the way to the neighboring city be an unusual adventu...
Hello, my dear chess friends! The Ukrainian Chess Federation postponed awarding a candidate master title to me, despite the standard that I fulfilled in my first tournament over the board (see my previous Zero Rated Tale). My statistics in the...
Hello my new and old chess friends! As you may know from paging through my slightly boring blog, I play a lot of online chess. Like many such players, I sometimes wonder about the differences between online games and real chess. How much of an o...
Hello, my chess friends! On the 4th of July, when the whole world knows about the great Day in the USA, Ukraine also has our own holiday - I mean, the Navy Day for our country. On this day I was lucky enough to visit the city of Ukrai...
Hello everybody! This week I am close to the most fantastic success of my chess career! As you know, the Chess.Com portal has announced a competition for the best game to be added to the ongoing Immortal Games Collection...
Hello! I need your attention again. Next month is over. And this is the vote for my best game of May. Write, please, what game you liked more? Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Write in commentary number of game w...
Once (it seems, it was a blog of Gregory Serper @Gserper) I met the question: what is your favorite move? It was unexpected. But I decided to find the answer for myself. Of course, the whole move is unique. After all, they are made in different ...
Hola!Today I have a few games that helped brighten me up this week. It all started with an interesting mistake that happened behind the board against the FIDE Master from Germany Christian Aepfler (FIDE 2257). It seems our blitz game was ...
Hey! I am glad to announce that this week brought me new chess records. Look at the squally attack that a player from Russia has undergone, having chosen Van Geet Opening against me. This is a good choice if you want to stun the oppo...
Hello! Regular readers of my blog may remember interesting and rare opening what I learn to play, the Urusov gambit. I already posted interesting games in it, but here are a few more games where my opponents made some dramatically mistakes and...
64 is a lucky number for every chess player.I show you my best games for the sixty-fourth week. Yes. I love chess gambits. I am glad that this feeling is transmitted to many readers of my blog. Sometimes they even send me games to m...
Three games. One will be the best! Write, please, what game you liked more? Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Write in commentary number of game what you liked more. Напишите в комментарии номер партии, которая вам ...
Last week of April, I close with another game report. Let's start with the opening catastrophes. Yes, there were a lot of them. And I selected them in all my favorite systems. Bishop's opening is an old system, which, nevertheless, you ca...
Hello, my dear! I am amateur chess player from Ukraine. And you can know about me and my (slightly boring) blog Fresh Chess... If you watched it at least once, you, of course, came across blogs with my games. But today I thought tha...
Hello!Again, I have а some good games this week! Last Sunday I played for the first time in the Elite Superblitz Arena on Lichess site. My trophy was my game against the famous Venezuelan coach and chess player FIDE Master Eddy Ravelo (FIDE 24...
So, next Thursday comes and we have a continuation of the blog about the "Secret" Gambit of Von Hennig.In the first part we broke off on the second line of our opening. After some discussion in the blog, I remind you that I am not a sel...
Hello! Today will blog about one of my favourite gambits. This opening is known as Blackmar's or Blackmar-Diemer (with moves 2...de 3.Nc3 Nf6) Gambit. This gambit have a many fans, and there are players wh...
Hello!This week started for me with an unforgettable match against FIDE Master, famous streamer and absolutely great chess player Dawid Czerw (FIDE 2259) from Poland. It was very kind of him to agree to such a match. ...
Hey!If it was too fast for you - you can find a complete analysis of the game here (Game 3).Enjoy, slowly!
My new and old friends!Traditionally, when the month is over, I post my games, which decide which one will become the Game of the month.Here are my best games in March. Write, please, what game you liked more? Game 1 ...
Hello!It was a great week, and perhaps one of the richest with my creative successes, the best of which I traditionally hurry to show you. Today will also be a small experiment. You all know that recently I am one of the streamers of the Ches...
Hello, my dear chess friends! I am proud to tell you some extraordinary news.On Monday, April, 1st, I will play a live match against FM Dawid Czerw (FIDE 2259) from Lublin, Poland. David is not only a strong chess player, but also a famous str...
Hello, my dear chess friends! This week a lot of small things left me quite a bit of time for chess.But still, this week I played, perhaps one of my best games.The second game is not so interesting, but it still illustrates the ideas of some of ...
