flyingpawns Wins

Niobium Rd 1. We put the magnifying glass to flyingpawns' game. Well played by flyingpawns, taking advantage of his opponents mistakes.
Looking at the ratings you might not realize this was played in the U1600 section.

CamNewton Starts With A Win

Tellurium Rd 1. CamNewton voluntarily gave up an exchange for good play. Then with strong moves, found the win. A very fine game.

A Win For otib2006

Rubidium Rd 1. A very impressive game from otib2006.

jorobo Starts With A Win

Tellurium Rd 1. A very interesting game. Black's rating is a little misleading. His league rating is 1872. Good King's Indian stuff here.

Introducing The Element Players in T53

This blog is devoted to the members of the "element" teams.

This season we have 5 teams!

Here are the players:

Rhenium U2200 universe, BadHabitNarco, TerryMalloy, ben622 (Asst), Campagnolo (Capt)

Tellurium U2000 CamNewton, jorobo (Asst), azbycx, Tamarin, az2112 (Capt)

Niobium U1600 flyingpawns, FlyingTiger, Krysto (Capt), milesotoole (Asst), berke,

Rubidium U1400 Krysto (Capt), Berke, Elalfer, otib2006, tamky70 (Asst)

Strontium U1400 lee-d, milesotoole (Capt), burnsy, Iowa-Archer

Too many forfeits last league. Let's make it zero this league.

I want to thank all the captains and their assistants for making this group of teams a reality.

If you play a good game in will be featured in this blog. Please be patient with me, it's a lot of games to look at. If you really like your game, you can annotate it yourself for publishing.

Just let me know.

Games start today!

flyingpawns Joins Niobium

Check out this attack by flyingpawns. Really good stuff.

burnsy Joins Strontium For T53

It's a custom that new players joining element teams to get a game featured in this blog before the league starts.
Here's a really good game from burnsy. He beats a player rated 500 points above him convincingly. Great game.

Solution To Can White Win

The study is by L. Kubbel 1937. Very pretty.

What Would Tal Play?

Can White Win?

It doesn't look like it. But there is a way. See it.