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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 to drop your pieces and help you get your opponent to drop theirs.

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 dro...

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 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 o...

Game Of The Week

This week's game comes from the email match with my Dad.  I have a tradition of honoring my Father by publishing his wins over me on Father's Day.  However, I didn't feel right honoring him by publishing his losses.  So, I decided to honor my Mother by publishing his losses.  She seems to enjoy his failures, especially aft...

Game Of The Week

Name:  Pawn

The older I grow, the more I value Paw...

Game Of The Week

When I started playing tournament chess, I read a pamphlet from GM Arthur Bisguier about how to improve at chess.  Since I had been crushed by him in a simul, I was more than willing to take his advice, even though I knew little about what a GM was.  He had a list of 10 principles to keep in mind when playing.  I tho...

Game Of The Week

I have been hanging out with chess masters Brian Wall and Josh Bloomer recently, staying up all night playing blitz.  Despite the painful and groggy next day, it has been a blast.  I even get a win once in a while.  Usually my wins come towards the crack of dawn when Brian is nodding off and Josh is dropping pieces. ...

Game Of The Week

Chess has the power to bring people together.  I have seen the oddest couples come together over the chessboard.  It can unite the peace-loving liberal with the hard-driving conservative and move them past their petty squabbling and into the realm of truth and beauty, at least for a little while. 

Game Of The Week

The first game I ever published was a win against my dad (http://cschess.webs.com/apps/blog/show/2929905-the-miracle-on-wood).  I called it the Miracle On Wood, as it ended on the same date (16 years later) as the USA Hockey upset over the Soviets.  It ...

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Game Of The Week

DuWayne Langseth started playing chess in 1972 and has been playing at the Colorado Springs Chess Club since the early 1990s. He teaches chess at a couple of scholastic clubs (Antelope Trail and Discovery Canyon). He has helped his son, Rhett, tie for the state title this year in the grade 7-9 category.

Game Of The Week

Since I am still trying to figure out my new system of putting out newsletters, I picked an easy game to publish.  It comes from question 9 of my old Grimm interview.  The diagram did not paste very well into the blog so I figured I would just add it as a video.  But I also ran across a nice PGN viewer!  So I also added the last 2 games into the Games link.  Check ...