KevinSmithIdiot

Author on chessable.com. Secrets of Trapping Pieces A prequel is scheduled for publication on 15 August 2024. The working title is Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Foundations. This book focuses far more explicitly on recognizable patterns and more than doubles the number of exercises. A third book is in development: KIMPLODES! Human Analysis. The goal is to provide a way to analyze your games before asking a silicon chess god to provide sometimes incomprehensible answers.

Chess Blogger: KevinSmithIdiot’s Blog 

My Club: Me Tomar. Me blog. Me read blogs. Accepting members beginning 1 April 2024. ("Me Tomar" is not spanish...in this instance.)

Favorite openings: Ruy Lopez, both sides. I simply resign if White plays 1 d2-d4, and offer a draw if White plays c2-c4. What I like in chess: weak squares Favorite players: Bent Larsen.

Basically, just some yahoo who makes inexplicable blunders, whether OTB or online (mouse slips are explicable, but annoying).

Some key blogs:

 
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: One Blog to Link Them All This blog provides links to all the 2023 blogs I produced about trapping pieces.

KIMPLODES! Explosive Analysis Approach--Break it up, baby! The first in a series of 2024 blogs that offer an approach to analysis based loosely on some prior work by others such as IM J. Silman.

Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Anastasia's Mate The first in a series of 2024 blogs on the secrets of trapping pieces with a specific emphasis on puzzles to test your skill at completing various mating configurations such as a Suffocation Mate, Arabian Mate, etc.