Sunday, February 23, 2025

Tournament Game on GameKnot

I'm playing in a tournament on the Gameknot website. I finished 1st in my group for round 1. So on to round two. Here is a win against the player who finished second in our group. He will also advance to the next round.

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A Game On Lichess


I played one rated and one unrated game today. At the age of 70 years the short time controls leave me exhausted. Here is the rated game my opponent had a provisional rating of 1789. We both had many mistakes. Time control was 10+5 (10 minutes for the game + 5 seconds per move). I had a slight advantage early then blundered into a lost game only to recover on a couple of blunders by my opponent. Here is the computer analysis graph from the lichess.org site. 





Monday, February 17, 2025

 Another place I will be playing is on the Free Internet Chess Server ( FICS ). They have been around since 1998. A spinoff from the Internet Chess Club ( ICC ). You can read the history HERE.

FICS: Free Internet Chess Server


Over time I'll publish some different ways to connect and play. You can play from their website or through a Graphical User Interface. Babaschess is one such GUI. You will find links to this and other GUI on the site. Look for me  user name rwmerrell.


Saturday, January 25, 2025

ChessKnot One Place I Play

 


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One place you can find me playing chess online...