2 Interesting Games @ Thomson CC (Friday Night Chess)

It was fun to play chess after a hard day's work. I'm secretly training my blitz play to prepare for a weekly blitz tournament event while preparing for a standard tournament, LOL. I did play someone whom I've faced difficulties against and won convincingly -- winning on time in all games. Then I played back to back games against 2 young opponents. I have to say I made MISTAKES in both games, which I seek to reduce, hopefully in time for my standard chess tournament. If not in time, I just hope to address them for my own general improvement in chess.

First roller-coaster game
Second game (with quite a bit of misplay in the opening)
Thank you for your time looking at them!


Yours sincerely
newbie_learner

2 Interesting Games @ Singapore Chess Meetup (23rd May 2018)

What can I say, 2 rapid games (15 minutes initial time with 10 second increment per move) played with one of my best friends in chess. Others don't be jealous, okay =)

He actually asked me about the openings he should play to prepare me for the upcoming SG City 2018 tournament. I guess I have identified the same, usual pros (staying optimistic and looking for decent defensive resources) and cons (need to grow some courage to play positions that demand careful calculation, and to be hardworking and not lazy to give up in the midst of calculation) of my game.

Without further ado, here goes:

Game 1


Game 2

I really like chess.com's feature to allow games embedded within the post. So much easier to follow.

Thank you for your time reading this.


Yours sincerely
newbie_learner

Maiden Attempt to Embed Chess Games Onto Blog Page

Dear Reader

This is my maiden attempt to embed a chess game directly onto a blog page. Being behind in IT knowledge and such, I've only come to the realisation that wordpress.com does not support iframes, and so embedding chess games become virtually impossible.

Can't thank my "junior", Yan Han, enough for his step-by-step guide to make this work. Below is a game I covered in the past, just to show off that it works!


Yeah, this does work! Sorry, but this means a permanent farewell to wordpress -- I have no more use you anymore, other than directing to my new love ^o^ Let's start afresh on forkSandpinS at blogspot.com =)

And it's great to know I'm not the only one covering / sharing their own games played in the 2nd season of the QCD Adults Team Chess League games.

See Also
Yan Han's coverage of his own game in round 4 of the QCD league


Thank you for reading!


Yours sincerely
newbie_learner