After a quiet opening, Black goes down a pawn and then misses a tactic which loses a piece for a pawn. Black never gets a chance to recover, and White presses the advantage until Black decides the...

The game of the quadruple fork! Annotated mostly as the game progressed

Game starts quietly with an unconventional opening. White plays a little too passively on move 9, then goes down a pawn after a move which is a little too aggressive (move 11). The ensuing compli...

Annotating as I go through this game... Overall comments: Black blunders a pawn away early and White picks off another in short order with an early Queen sortie, but after this, Black pulls it toge...

I played thoughtlessly as Black for a while in the opening and ended up with the worse position. Stronger play by Black and somewhat too passive play by White allowed Black to recover and win.

A sharp game with interesting attacking possibilities at several points. A somewhat boring-looking Four Knights opening quickly turns into a tactically complicated position where White trades a pa...

Black plays an early Bd6, locking in the d-pawn and leaving the a2-g8 diagonal open for White to exploit and making it difficult to block. White develops steadily and uses that diagonal to prevent ...

White leaves his King too open to attack, and is punished for it.