Colorado Springs Chess News

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's event:  CSCC Honorary Medal Rapid Online (4SS, G/10+10).  It was played by Jose Llacza and Paul Anderson.

I picked this game to publish because it was the end of my 40 move ch...

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's event:  CSCC Other Side Rapid Online (3SS, G/10+10).  It was played by Rhett Langseth and Alayne Wilinsky.

Rhett was nice enough to test out the online tournament's re-entry feature....

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's event:  CSCC Full Commitment Rapid Online (3SS, G/10+10).  It was played by Thomas Claman and Mark McGough.

I always start my weekly newsletter with the same introduction because sta...

Game Of The Week

By Andy Rea

[editor:  This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's event:  CSCC Illegal Landing Rapid Online (4SS, G/10+10).  It was played by Andy Rea and DuWayne Langseth and actually comes from one of the players!]

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's event:  CSCC Knight Pair Rapid Online (4SS, G/10+10). It was played by John Brezina and Rhett Langseth.

I was looking for a game to publish this week and noticed that LM Brian Wall had published his 200...

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's event:  CSCC Memorable Upsets Rapid Online (4SS, G/10+10).   It was played by Brian Rountree and Laurence Coker.

One of the nice things about these online tournaments is that I am running into...

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from my list of upsets.  In fact, it is my 60th upset I have published.  I created the list early on when I had limited access to other player's chess games, and I wanted an easy way to pick one of my games to publish for the newsletter.

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's event:  CSCC Recurring Miss Rapid Online (4SS, G/10+10).  It was played by Paul Anderson and Andy Rea.

I was happy to win this game because Andy has always had my number. 

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's event:  CSCC Beware The Twelfth Rapid Online (4SS, G/10+10).  It was played by NM Jonathan Dussik and DuWayne Langseth. 

DuWayne is a club old-timer and was trying for his first virtual gold ...

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's event:  CSCC Blind Turtle Rapid Online (4SS, G/10+10).  It was played by Alex Bozhenov and Dean Brown.

I was surprised to see Dean in virtual medal contention and tied with my opponent, Jeff Fox, w...

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's event:  CSCC Pin Is Mighty Rapid Online (4SS, G/10+10).   It was played by DuWayne Langseth and Brian Rountree.

I was looking online for some stats to share about the combatants in this game s...

Game Of The Week

A couple years back, I came up with a method to organize chess tactics.  I called it the DROP Method (https://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 to drop your pieces and help you get your opponent to drop...

Game Of The Week

By Matt Grinberg

Claude Frizzel Bloodgood - the name is enough to scare you even before you know about his life.  He was born in 1937 in California, but lived most of his life in Virginia.  There is some suggestion that he may have been playing in chess tournaments as early as the mid 1950's, but t...

Game Of The Week 

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's event:  CSCC Killer Latency Rapid Online (3SS, G/10+10).  It was played by Brian Rountree and Alayne Wilinsky.  They have only faced once online, at least in a rapid time control.

Alayne...

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's event:  CSCC Overload Rapid Online (4SS, G/10+10).  It was played by Jose Llacza and Mark McGough. They have faced each other twice online.  Jose got the first game, and Mark evened the score with this game.

Game Of The Week

A couple years back, I came up with a method to organize chess tactics.  I called it the DROP Method (https://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 to drop your pieces and help you get your opponent to drop theirs....

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's event: CSCC Killer Curfew Rapid Online (4SS, G/10+10).  It was played by Vedant Margale and Dean Brown.  Vedant is ranked at 98 for the Top 100 - Age 10 by USCF.  Dean is his top USCF opponent in the past year and fifth all-time.

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's event:  CSCC Killer TD Rapid Online (3SS, G/10+10).  I chose this game as a protest against club Treasurer, Mark "The Money Man" McGough for shooting down my idea of giving out some prizes for the online events.

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's event:  CSCC Killer Bishop Rapid Online (3SS, G/10+10).  It was nice to see that the computer can run these events without having to be present.  I was unable to play in the event due to the surprise Memorial Day blizzard.

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's event:  CSCC Removal Rapid Online.  It was a four round, Swiss system tournament (G/10+10).  We have been meeting online every Sunday night after the Coronavirus shut down the regular club.  We started at 8pm mountain time due to the grocery stores closing early. ...