Hey KB, I thought u did a great job presenting your puzzles that you've worked hard on making for us. Just came across an interesting improvement in your second puzzle at 3:53 where you did Bxa8, Rxa8. After this you can do Rxb5! axb5 and Rxa8+! anyway thanks for the commentary, keep those vids coming!

In the last position, there was a checkmate.

Hi Chris,

Yes, that's another good one due to the pinned pawn (I love the mighty pin)! I didn't want to show the outcome of that game. I was completely humiliated!

Actually, I didn't put much time into this video as you might think. I have all my computer games autosaved into Fritz databases so that I can recall them very quickly and I just roll my mouse wheel through the game til I find the killer move (no analysis, no blunders, just looking for winning tactics). So then I create a new database named Simple Tactics 2 and highlight the King (on the correct color) right before the tactic, then save the game into that new database. I might have spent an hour and a half on the whole video including uploading (well worth the time in my book).

I find this kind of studying much more fun and productive. I just don't have the time nor the desire to study chess books anymore (at least right now). I just like to play blitz! I find it exciting and less painful. I will not likely improve my playing abilities because I am not willing to invest the time and energy it takes to keep climbing. I will just have to clunk along playing patzer chess and that is fine with me. Don't get me wrong, I would love to be an expert, but I am not willing to do the work right now- like the song says: "I don't want to work, I just want to bang on these drums all day"! hahahahahaha

Thanks for stopping by. I am playing on chess.com if you want a game!

Thanks for watching and commenting my friend!

Thanks for watching and your imput kraska,

Yes, I see that! I am wondering if Gentlewhisper remembers this game. I remember the tactic very well since he pulled it on me, but I can't recall if we did a post mortem or analysis on this game. I am sure it was probably a blitz game, like most of my games are. I tend to play blitz even in a chess.com correspondence game....lol, I hate to think for very long, that why I am still a patzer, not to mention chess redneck.... yeehaw.... lol!

GW, if you read this, did you know you had a mate in the last game on this video? I think we already talked about this mate, but "I can't remember" (man, I have been saying that too much lately, I am getting old fast since I turned 50)!

I love that kind of mate, it's like a "Morphy Mate" using the bishop and rook....hehehehehe!

Good One!

no problem, KB Its great watching your games and they are very enjoyable. Yeah for sure I hear ya, it takes way too much brain power and time invested to improve sbstantially. Nice song quote btw I've been wanting to make over 2200 quickly but everything else just stops me from achieving this. Btw, for sure we can have a chess.com game. Been playing redhotpawn.com recently actually.