I’ve been playing chess with a few SEO-types recently in Facebook. If you fancy challenging me on Facebook, please do on this link

Some months back I reviewed FaceBook’s sponsored listings  and found the Click through rate to be very poor. Since then I have tried with a much larger brand and had an even more disastrous CTR. Today I think I found out at least one reason why.

I was going through Facebook and was clicking around. Just as I clicked Continue reading...

Dave Wallace just ”twittered” that a chess hero ahs died. Fisher died of kidney failure Thursday in a Reykjavik hospital after a long illness.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_on_re_eu/obit_fischer

I am learning very late in life that you need to learn the theory, not just think for yourself. Case in point on the ICC yesterday when I played a set of moves I always thought was obvious as white: 1.d4  e6 2: c4  Nf6 3:Nc3 Bb4 4:Bd2 d5 (Diagram below).  

Well – Dasher’s crafty had already been suggesting e3 instead of Bd2 on the… Continue reading...

how I go about analyzing my online chess games after the event Continue reading...