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batgirl

Mar 30, 2018

Does anyone have a blog, an article, a forum posting, a website - anything personal they are particularly proud of or which they think may benefit others?

If so, post a link here.

If you want, write whatever you want to entice others to click your link.

Also, if you belong to a group and want to enlist members, link to it and tell us why we should join. Doing this in random forum threads may be construed as advertising and deleted but it's open season on this thread- take your best shot.

(remember: no advertising competitor sites).

godsofhell1235

Mar 30, 2018

I post about how to play against 1.d4 with the QGD. Mostly for new players.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/why-do-i-lose-when-someone-plays-d4?page=2

I analyze a game. I think in particular the tip I give about endgames is useful and not widely known. For more experienced players.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chess-is-so-freagin-hard?page=2

I give an example of how I analyze to find the best of bad choices (trying to defend an objectively worse position). For anyone above beginner probably.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-analysis/position-for-analysis-black-to-move

I give both tips and examples for when to capture, or retreat, and where to retreat, when your bishop is pinning a knight. For any level of player who is curious.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/when-do-i-capture

I give two main systems to play against the london. One classical (with d5) and one hypermodern. Any level is fine, mostly for people who don't know the usual ways.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-to-crush-london-system?page=2

I give lots of unrelated tips. Maybe a dozen. For middlegame, endgame, individual pieces, how to think when choosing between moves, etc. Mostly for non-beginners, but some are simple enough for any level.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/share-a-chess-tip

godsofhell1235

Mar 30, 2018

Oh, and I was happy with this invention (with help of engine of course). A way to play against someone when you know they're going to do the lion.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/a-tip-for-playing-against-the-lion

batgirl

Mar 30, 2018

Thanks for getting the ball rolling....

godsofhell1235

Mar 30, 2018

FWIW I know @ziryab has a good blog.

But chess.com forum isn't exactly overflowing with helpful contributors, so while the topic itself is good, I'm not sure how many responses it will generate.

You could probably name them on 1 or 2 hands only.

Other than that doesn't chess.com feature top blogs or something?

Rocky64

Mar 30, 2018

I have a couple of blogs on this site:

An introduction to composed chess problems

Stockfish and a forced-mate problem it cannot solve

MitSud

Mar 30, 2018

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/a-history-of-2Q

Not sure this counts as something particularly beneficial to other, but I had fun writing it, and it’s pretty funny, everyone who remembers 2QIC should like it.

batgirl

Mar 31, 2018

Don't be shy about recommending someone else's content you may feel worth sharing.

batgirl

Mar 31, 2018

Here are blogs and articles I follow and recommend

Blogs:
https://www.chess.com/blog/simaginfan
https://www.chess.com/blog/spektrowshi
https://www.chess.com/blog/kamalakanta
https://www.chess.com/blog/HurricaneChess

Articles:
https://www.chess.com/article/member/gserper
https://www.chess.com/article/member/silman

You might also want to check out these two pages:
https://www.chess.com/articles/authors
https://www.chess.com/blog/authors

Bad_Dobby_Fischer

Mar 31, 2018

#10

wow, thanks for this thread!

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/fun-with-chess/worst-excuses-for-losing- the biggest active "fun with chess" thread, and one of the biggest active thread of any kind (except for off topic, they have a lot of spam threads)!

https://www.chess.com/club/worst-chess-players-ever-club-nothing special, just a club, but here you have an excuse for losing any chess game, and if you win, that's even more embarrassing for your opponents! (you are one of the worst chess players)

batgirl

Mar 31, 2018

#11

Back in the day - the v2 days - we could customize our blog home page. I kept a permanent list of links on that page to various blog articles I had written. Here's what it looked like:

Links:
     Paul Morphy
    A History of Blitz
    Articles about Women and Chess
Chess Automatons

Checkmates:

Traps:

Judy's Problems:

Judy's Games

The Queen of Chess
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV

The Ladies' Chess Club of London
The First Year
The Early Years
The Middle Years
Ladies' Entry into the Chess World

Prince Dadian's Unknown Games
Pt. I
Pt. II
Pt. III
Pt. IV
Pt. V
Pt. VI
Pt. VII

The Childhood of Russian Chess
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V

Romantic Chess
The Dreaded Cunningham
Bertin Gambit: What Would You Give for an Attack
Villemsom's Gambit in the KGA
The King's Gambit, Classically Declined
King's Gambit Talk
Petrov's Defense in the King's Gambit
Muzio Madness Pt.I
Muzio Madness Pt.II
Muzio Madness Pt.III
Morphy's Muzios
The Bishops Gambit: pre-1900
Eisenberg's Gambit

Develpment of Western Chess
Gioacchino Greco
Philidor
Deschapelles
The Professor of Chess
Louis-Charles Mahe de La Bourdonnais
H.J.R. Murray

George Walker -by HJR Murray
William Lewis -by HJR Murray
Howard Staunton - by HJR Murray
Parsloe's Coffee-House by Murray
Medieval Chess Stories by Murray
The Courier Game by Murray

The Ups and Downs of John Henry Huttmann

godsofhell1235

Mar 31, 2018

#12

That's a little bit different.

Forum posts and blogs are one thing, what you do is more like preparation to write and publish a book.

Maybe there should be a batgirl book

batgirl

Apr 1, 2018

#13

I was kindly informed that my link to simaginfan doesn't work. Here is the proper link:

https://www.chess.com/blog/simaginfan

RonaldJosephCote

Apr 1, 2018

#14

Batgirl, you and you alone are cordially invited to join this group https://www.chess.com/club/keepin-it-real

chesster3145

Apr 1, 2018

#15

I’m a Top Blogger with 40+ posts, but I’m not sure which ones I’m the most proud of.

I manage Blogosphere, Chess.com’s biggest group for bloggers and blog fans. We run really high-quality VC, with as much discussion as any of the top teams I’ve played on, but that’s not even the highlight. We feature 38 bloggers and 7 Top Bloggers, and maintain several unique features such as a Blogger of the Month award, a Monthly Top 5 which all members can vote on, a newsletter called Blogosphere Monthly News and forum threads such as Reader’s Choice, New Posts and Bloggers in This Group along with Blogosphere Portals and a Blog Index by topic.

Everything is there to ensure the best possible space for bloggers and blog fans to communicate, collaborate and accomplish more together than they ever could alone.

RoobieRoo

Apr 1, 2018

#16

I don't particularly feel proud of any to be honest, the reward is in the creative process itself.

batgirl

Apr 1, 2018

#17

Do you had a direct link?

chesster3145

Apr 1, 2018

#18

https://www.chess.com/club/blogosphere

Harmbtn

Apr 1, 2018

#19

I recommend Milliern

https://www.chess.com/blog/Milliern/a-theoretical-framework-for-adult-improvement

He writes very well and has a lot of profound ideas about the subject of chess improvement for late starters.

batgirl

Apr 2, 2018

#20

While I used to blog and now mostly write articles, occasionally I post mini-articles in the forums.
Here are links to some of them (often the following comments contain valuable information too):

Louis Paulsen

Chess Brilliancies

Interesting Photo

An Other Interesting Photo

Images You Won't Find on the Web - Till Now

Some Pictures

What do these portraits have in common?

Living Chess

Combining Business with Pleasure

Showalter-Worrall

Pillsbury's Chess Column

The Death of Pillsbury