Cryptogee Chess

Chess is a great love of mine, it relaxes me whilst focusing my mind. In the past few months I have found myself playing more and more chess, and am really getting back into the game. As well as helping

After struggling for so long, I finally hit my highest ever bullet rating.

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.

One of the great things I've learned from Levy Rozman, is a kind of theory of mind when it comes to chess. Of course I've learned a little bit more about the theory of openings, and practical moves for

In today's game I tried out a technique I learned from watching the Gotham Chess video from the "Chess Steps" series, for 1000-1400. Seeing as I'm a 1479 rated player I decided to give it a go.

As some of you may know, I haven't been playing chess now for a while and when you look at it, the reasons have been pretty silly. For a start my old ergonomic mouse stopped working properly with my computer.

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

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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

So my journey has begun, I want to become the lowest rank of chess master, CM (or NM as it's known on lichess.org), however it did not get off to such a great start. Basically reality has bitten me hard!