Most of the time, all you do is hear me complain about chess engines and cheaters ... how a human has no hope against a chess engine ... BUT!!! Did you know there are times that chess engines are absolutely ZERO help? (No, this is not a jo...
How many chess games have you played? I am NOT talking about your ratings ... just the total number of games that you have actually played? As you can see from this image. I have now played over 100,000 bullet games!!!!!!!!!...
I have a web page on the best/greatest chess miniatures of all time. (http://www.ajschess.com/lifemasteraj/short_games.html) On that page is a list of the ten greatest chess miniatures of all time. But what is my favorite short game of che...
When I first started Puzzle Rush ... I was averaging close to 25. I am 100% certain there were a LOT of easy mates and stuff, I do not seem to be seeing as much of that now. (It seems that there USED to be a lot of "mate-in-one-moves" and {easy} b...
GM Mikhail Tal is one of the greatest players who ever lived. You cannot call yourself a true chess fan if you have never looked at one of his games! He set the world on fire in the late 1950's and early 1960's with his dazzling brilliance and ele...
I love "shorties" ... ... ... or miniatures in chess. (A game that is completed in 25 moves - or less.) I have always had a fascination about these kinds of games and even collected all the books I could find in this genre of chess. (At on...
I already have a long blog on chess traps. (Click here to see it - and you should really check it out! It is full of links ... and I won't reproduce all that info {again} in this blog.) My first blog on chess traps has generated many e-mails, PM's...
For many years now, a gentleman by the name of Josh Stewart has been running a chess group for children. Originally, I went with my oldest daughter, Ailene. (She is now 22.) Now I am going with my youngest daughter, Angel. (She is a Senior in High...
I started this series ... mostly as a (chess) jest ... thinking that no one would care about my games or what I thought. (I also wanted to "rail" against the folks who simply play bullet, thinking that speed is the ONLY thing that matters in reall...
GM Wesley So is very young ... (25), but he has already played many beautiful, wonderful games of chess. But which game would he consider to be his very best effort? I have spent weeks studying his games and going over my CB (ChessBase) fi...
I recently did a blog ... "Just the Basics." In that blog, I compared chess to war ... in reality, that is all chess is, it is a board game that is based on warfare, and it maybe several thousand years old. A friend, @Christopher_Parsons, ...
There is a concept/idea ... that you MUST teach to every rank beginner. Further, EVERY good chess player does this ... whether he/she is consciously aware of it or not. And I have asked dozens of really good and well-known chess teachers this ques...
I have now played a handful of games of 960 chess. On another site, I lost the first 5-10 games that I played in this variant as correspondence games. And I want to see if I can figure out why, I also thought it would be fun to post the ga...
This will be a blog of annotated games ... for the average player ... say 1650 and below! (If you are a higher rated player, please look away, this blog is not for you!) This is a chance for me to teach and try to help all the lowe...
Welcome to my blog! I thought - that since I have not seen ANY blog posting that goes along the lines of what I would like to see - that I would offer my thoughts on some of the games. Not only this, I thought that I would offer links to ALL the c...
Originally - when I wrote the first article in this series - I was mainly trying to highlight the lunacy of simply playing bullet (chess) just like a monkey - furiously turning the handle on the organ grinder's box ... destroying any art, sport, o...
Most players play bullet chess like its a bloody foot race, bashing out moves with no real thought or even an attempt at finding moves that contain the essence of real chess. (I call this kind of souless chess, "Mouse racing," I even have a blog o...
I have often been asked to recommend chess books ... so much so, I dare not even count the number of times that I have been asked this question. (Via E-mails, messages, IM's, PM's, etc.) Since I played my first USCF-rated tournament in 1966 and I ...
http://www.youtube.com/user/LifeMasterAJ?feature=mhee Find all of my video's on the YT channel by searching under my user name there. ("LifeMasterAJ" - but without the quotation marks.) Some of the video's here are good, but I maintain that min...
Discussion: Please join in. Is it better to move as fast as possible (at one-minute chess); or should you try to make good moves? My trophy room: http://www.chess.com/members/trophy_room/FLchessplayer(I think the large majorit...
Hi! My name is A.J. Goldsby I. I am an Original LIFE Master. (This means that I played more than 300 games ... while maintaining a 2200 - or better - rating. It also means that my permanent USCF {ratings} floor is 2200.) Find me on the web at ht...
