Colorado Springs Chess News

End Of The Season

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Well, another chess season has come to a close for me.  It is time for me to move on to managing the website for my other hobby (http://spamfootball.webs.com/), but I will return after the football season en...

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the August Swiss 90 (5SS, G/90+30).  It was the fourth round, and I was facing by best student, Calvin DeJong.  More than any other student of mine, he put into practice the advice I had given him.  So, he had all my secrets in a couple months.  It took me over seven years of testing out differe...

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from my loss column.  I have a tradition of publishing four losses each year.  I hate looking at a chess loss, let alone publishing it, but forcing myself to do this keeps me humble.

When pride cometh, the...

Game Of The Week

This week's game choice comes from Glen Campbell, the pop and country singer who passed away on August 8th from Alzheimer's disease.  In honor of his contributions to music, I was listening to a couple of songs from him that I have in my collection.  My sister and her best friend from the 4th grade, Jennifer Macpherson, performed "R...

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's August Swiss 90.  It will be a five round event this month and good preparation for our city championship coming up in October.

A couple of Brians met for the first time.  One is a reg...

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from Doug Clark.  I told Doug I would publish his first USCF-rated win.  Well, after 45 games and two years, it finally happened.  Doug won!

In the fourth round of the July Quick, everything finally came together and h...

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's July Quick event (6SS, G/24+5).  It is one of our faster events.  We hold faster time controls in January (Speed = 5 minute per player), April (Dual = between 30 to 60 minutes & Quick = between 10 and 30 minutes) and July (same as April).  Ordinarily, the club ha...

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's annual tradition, the July Mating Game.  It is a 2-week event that typically conflicts with Colorado Springs' annual tradition, the Pikes Peak Or Bust Rodeo Parade.

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Fourth Of July.  It is the first time I have played chess on the 4th.  Typically, the Colorado Springs Chess Club takes a break from chess when the holiday falls on a Tuesday night.  However, I was in charge of making the schedule this year and wanted to get everything in place by February. ...

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Tuesday night event, The June Swiss 90 (4SS, G/90+30).  It was a four-round, month-long event with one game per night.  Typically, Brian Rountree gets his money's worth on time, as he is one of the last games to finish.  However, this night, he was the first game do...

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado State Senior Chess Championship.  I was recruited to be the Tournament Director (TD) for the second day.  The event was a two-day, four-round, Swiss Tournament (4SS, G/90+30).  It was held in Golden, Colorado on Saturday, June 24th and Sunday, June 25th.  I had my choice of days as ...

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from my email match against my dad.  It started in 1996 and lasted until 2010.  We played 53 games, and the score was even until 2003 (+12-12=9).  The final 20 games went in my favor and showed a marked improvement in my game (+10-3=7).  The match was the reason I started going to the Colorado Spring...

Game Of The Week

Name: Knight

Alias: Horse, Jumper, Rider, Horseman

Number: 2

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the old Denny's tournaments. 

Back in July of 2007, the Colorado Springs Chess Club tested out the idea of offering more chess.  Rather than just one night per week and one location, we created a new night at a new lo...

Game Of The Week

A couple years back, I came up with a method to organize chess tactics.  I called it the DROP Method (http://cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/categories/show/1378181-drop-method).  The DROP method is an acronym for the basic kinds of tact...

Game Of The Week

A couple years back, I came up with a method to organize chess tactics.  I called it the DROP Method (http://cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/categories/show/1378181-drop-method).  The DROP method is an acronym for the basic kinds of tacti...

Game Of The Week

A couple years back, I came up with a method to organize chess tactics.  I called it the DROP Method (http://cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/categories/show/1378181-drop-method).   The DROP method is an acronym for the basic kinds of tact...

Game Of The Week

A couple years back, I came up with a method to organize chess tactics.  I called it the DROP Method (http://cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/categories/show/1378181-drop-method).  The DROP method is an acronym for the basic kinds of tactics. It is meant to remind you not ...

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By Matt Grinberg

Have you ever heard this old chess joke?

It was sent in by Dennis Cravens in response to the Christmas Tree Chess Problems.  It was also sent to me by Jim Bailey's wife Katy a while back....

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from last night.  I finally had a free Monday night and decided to check out a new chess club that had contacted me back in January.  Robin Fields sent me this message:

Chess Players,