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As you all know, we are committed to helping everyone improve their chess skills. In order to do this studying chess is a must! No one will improve if they don't study and practice. Practicing is what most of us come here to do. We play so many games of chess with people all over the world. Win or lose, we all make mistakes. Everyone can learn from their mistakes. As they say "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger!" In order to learn from your mistakes you hae to go over YOUR own games. This is the most valuable type of studying you can do. For this reason we are offering to analyze your games right here. We will give you detailed feedback on what you did well and what you did wrong. We will provide suggestions and go over your games so that you learn from them. Recommendations: We recommend that the games you submit to us are serious games. This includes OTB, Standard Live Chess, and Turn-Based. We don't want to go over a fast blitz game where you hardly thought. Post the game in the comments below as either a diagram or as a link to your archived game. To help us you can feel free to annotate your games with your thoughts... This will help the analyzers know what you were thinking when you made a certain move. This step is optional but would be very useful. After Your Game Is Done: We will post your game and send you a private message to notify you. If you want your game to not be posted for others to see please tell us and we will send it to you only. Most games will just be a diagram of the chess game with added annotations and suggestions and variations included. The option of creating a video of someone going over the game and explaining it is also possibly. If you would like this please say so when you post a game... It isn't for sure that we will but it is a possiblity if you ask. We hope this helps and you find this useful!

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Here you will find all the Team Match Leaders Names in an Alphabetical order. Member ID Wins Draws Loses # of games 335394862 0 0 2 2 _Schachmatt_ 4 0 2 6 2a3a1a 0 0 6 6 A5un 2 0 0 2 ACP2000 2 0 0 2 adilbil 2 0 0 2 aeroplane718 2 0 0 2 AhmedWais 1 1 0 2 aissakalache 1 0 3 4 alanmajo125 0 0 2 2 albionharry 1 0 3 4 albti 1 0 1 2 AlchemicRejuvenation 2 0 0 2 ale_xan2 0 0 2 2 AleksisfromLV 8 6 4 18 Alex8_89 2 0 0 2 Ali_rastbod 5 1 2 8 ALIKADHYM 0 0 4 4 ALZARO 2 0 8 10 Amfee 0 0 6 6 Ami_D_Rex 2 0 0 2 amirsh33 0 1 1 2 AmirTiger3000 0 0 10 10 A-MK 0 0 2 2 an2driani 2 0 0 2

Here you will find all the Team Matches we have finished so far... Completed Matches Wins Loses # Of Games Result practice match 3 3 6 Draw Philippines' Finest Challenge! 3 7 10 Lost Mongolian Militant Open Challenge 1 5 6 Lost All 4 Idaho! vs. Powerful Pawns 4 2 6 Won Powerful Pawns Open Challenge 0 4 4 Lost <1350 4 4 8 Draw Handsome and Clever vs Powerful Pawns 4 2 6 Won ECO:B15 Alekhine's Gambit (Caro Kann) 0 4 4 Lost Handsome and Clever vs Powerful Pawns 2 6 8 Lost low rated match 4 4 8 Draw Powerful Pawns Open Challenge 0 4 4 Lost Egyptian Team Work Open Challenge 5 5 10 Draw lets play some chess! 3.5 4.5 8 Lost POWERFUL! 1 1 2 Draw Born in '93 Open Challenge 3 1 4 Won AoPS Open Challenge 2.5 3.5 6 Lost We Are Not A Moon! [<1700] 4 0 4 Won Something to do Open Challenge 6 2 8 Won English! 2.5 3.5 6 Lost Group chatters vs. Powerful pawns 6.5 3.5 10 Won OPEN to suggestions... 9 15 24 Lost Rompiendo Fronteras team Open Challenge 11 7 18 Won Angels Rock With Powerful Pawns 6 10 16 Lost

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Members of Powerful Pawns, We clearly need to restart the group and with the current super admins falling inactive on chess.com, for the most part, I would like to seek your approval to become a super admin. I would also like to promote more admins and super admins to help revive this club! I am currently an admin, but there are things I cannot do currently and one of those things is promoting members to help with the rebuild. That is why I am asking for your support. Since the Super Admins can not make these changes due to their inactivity, the only way to retake this group is for me to seek your approval. We will hold a vote here by commenting below to determine the new SA. This is a process that chess.com requires for the promotion of a super admin in a situation like this, so it would be greatly appreciated if you gave me your support to start rebuilding this group! Thank you! I cannot wait to bring this club back to life!

London System Study For many years, I myself played the London system. Even today, though I have moved on to primarily the Queen's Gambit, occasionally play the London system. I find the opening to be very solid and allow for rapid development. When I first started getting serious about chess, the London system was a good opening for me. It got me away from the boring (yes, I found it boring) e4 e5 stuff. Especially with the introduction of the Sicilian Defense (1e4 ... c5). I did not like this and I found this opening to fit my style of attacking and play quite well. For a few years I used it until I decided that the Queen's gambit was more fit for me as I continued to play. The London system is still in my opening repertoire and is used sometimes. Even when I play the Queen's Gambit, 3. Bf4 stands out to me and I sometimes prefer to play that. So, if you are looking for a solid opening, the London System is a perfect one to learn! It is also worth knowing how to defend and play proper incase if someone plays it on you... Then, you'll know how to exploit it when the mess up a line. Check it ous and see how you like it. London with 2... c5 Yes, for most beginning London System users, this move is scary. It is actually the most common approach and possibly the best! c5 challenges the center pawn (which white did not do and instead focused on development, which again is by no means a bad thing!). The Tarrasch Approach Challenging the dark sqared bishop is common for black to do. In some cases leaving the bishop on b4 is actually a decent move and can compensate later on. Moving the bishop away can waste time but is an acceptable alternative. The common London System This is the common setup in the london system. Notice the bishop and queen's aim on the pawn at h7. After Ne5 black can not take, otherwise the pawn takes and the knight leaves to lose a pawn. Either way, this is a solid position for white to play. The Slav approach The solid center formation for black will allow for rapid development and a flexible queen bishop. Symmetrical London If your opponent replies with Bf5 on move 2 or 3, then playing pawn to c4 right away will do good. This is because the bishop is no longer on the queenside to defend so you must go for it and create weaknesses. Bb3 should also be played soon because of the weakness created by the absent bishop. Even if Qb6 in reply and later Qxb3 the pawn structure leaves white with excellent queenside chances. Grunfeld Formation This is a king fianchetto line. It is common against the queens gambit, and, revised a litte, can work here too. The Pseudo Old Indian This is interesting and a lot of times is caused because of white's second move. Black may want to transpose into a kings Indian. Either way, this scares London users because it is way different than any of the pther setups. The line is super flexible for both sides and the setup can very based on the move order. Also, the queen moving around so much is a waste of time. White can sometimes give up the b2 pawn for a time gain and should have plenty of compensation. The dutch reply Some players play the Dutch and won't give it up just because of the London system. Rushing the kingside pawn forward has a certain charm. Black has to take care the first 20 moves or so, but don't expect to refute the Dutch with pure brutality.

It goes like this. Someone will start a question and you will answer it with another question. Someone else will answer your question with 1 more question. And the conversation goes on.... For Example: Does anyone want to play? Is there a prize for the winner? (Answer: I may play, Question: Is there a prize) Do you think the forum would donate a prize? (Answer: There can be a prize, Question: Who will donate the prize) Please, don't repeat the questions!The question should answer the previous question & at the same time it should be another question.

This is a very tactical and interesting game to check out!

Black to move mate in 1. The goal is to checkmate one of the white kings. (Credit for this puzzle goes to IM JavierGil)

This is impossible. Good Luck! (Don't Cheat)

Hey, Powerful Pawns! I offer you an interesting game "The Chemical Reaction" for this forum. You can write three words in your message and use some mathematic signs ( + - / x = ) A humour and a creativity are greeted. For example: CHESS + TIME = BULLET Any next member must use the last word. It's the BULLET. He writes: BULLET x SPEED = BLUNDER Have you got it?

Im fine when it comes to analysing a game after its over, but i'd have to say, my biggest flaw (which is slightly problematic in chess) is analysing it in the moment, so how do you analyse a game as its going on, or just in general if you wish to expand the parameters of this request.

Its wher you try to guess a number from clues. I'll start. The number I am thinking about is greater than 10, less than 11, has one decimal, and none of the numbers are prime.

you can change letters, rearange letters, add a letter, or subtract a letter to create a new word. You can make up to two changes. I'll start: LOL

This is where the Daily Powerful Move puzzles will be found! Just scroll down and try them out for youself! Rules: Try to solve the puzzle ;) Do not post the answer in the forum so that others can try these tactics at anytime Make sure to click the follow button down below!