#cryptogeechess

Wow!!! I never knew that placing that queen there at that position would yield a checkmate. I just wanted to act fast as I'm in my last seconds of the game. It feels so good to win after the tension from

Sometimes I wonder how most of the best chess players usually handle the tension from the game. I tried a one minute game and almost pee on my body because of the tension coming from the fact that I don't

Hello chess hivians. It took me time to realize in chess that there can still be a one decision you may have a chance to take which will change the whole game and move you away from tension even after

I have a new kitten and he's taking me to new levels of rage quit! Cryptogee

I'm definitely getting more into my 1 minute bullet games recently. I feel the Levy Rozman videos I've been watching have helped tremendously. The game below is possibly the craziest game I've ever had,

A couple of weeks ago I came across a player rated higher than me, at the time I was in the mid 900s and he was in the low thousands. By the end of our epic battle, I had overtaken him in the rankings.

It's funny how little things can stop us doing big things sometimes. Last year I was playing quite a bit of chess and I started a quest to become the best chess player I could, hoping to reach NM (national

In this video I decide to try and get my Blitz rating up to 1000 by playing until I get there. It didn't go as smoothly as I hoped, though I had a nice end to the challenge. Watch to see if I got there

In this video I try and break the 1400 rated barrier. I attempt to get there in 2 hours of nonstop 5:3 games of chess. This was a lot harder than it sounded at first. It's one thing to play a 2 hour game,

It's always nicer to beat a higher rated player than yourself. In this video I analyse a victory I had last year when my Blitz rating on Lichess.org was 1299, and my opponent's was 1450. I have since added

So I decided to get back to the games that I plan to become a master in, and that's the 5:3 games. For those that aren't aware, that means five minute games with increments of 3 seconds, every time you

I like using the one minute bullet games on lichess.org to hone my skills and sharpen me up for the longer 5:3 games. However I've been finding myself getting more and more into them. The problem is, I