Chess
October 5, 2021 • ☕️ 2 min read
I realized one thing that I never shared on my blog, depsite its prominence in my day to day, is that I play chess, and not an insignificant amount. Atleast 10ish games a day, if not nearly double that on average.
My rating on Chess.com is around 1200, while on Lichess its around 1600. I mostly play Rapid [10-0] on Chess.com, but used to play a lot of blitz [3-2/5-0] as well.
It started out early pandemic, got a boost with the release of Queen’s Gambit on Netflix, and eventually led to me watching Twitch streamers play chess to get better, which I still do.
And thus, to keep this as simple as possible, below are the 10 latest games I have played on lichess, under the username SwanJaguar (autogenerated username ftw) dynamically updated every 10 minutes.
Link to game that started as a Queen's Pawn Game: Accelerated London System, played 160 days ago at 2:43:13 p.m. where I won
Link to game that started as a Van't Kruijs Opening, played 161 days ago at 6:18:42 p.m. where I lost
Link to game that started as a Queen's Pawn Game: Accelerated London System, played 167 days ago at 1:59:14 p.m. where I won
Link to game that started as a Scotch Game, played 175 days ago at 10:32:46 p.m. where I lost
Link to game that started as a King's Pawn Game: Busch-Gass Gambit, played 175 days ago at 10:16:44 p.m. where I lost
Link to game that started as a Queen's Pawn Game: Accelerated London System, played 178 days ago at 6:27:00 p.m. where I won
Link to game that started as a Englund Gambit: Hartlaub-Charlick Gambit, played 178 days ago at 4:01:07 p.m. where I won
Link to game that started as a Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Modern Variation, played 179 days ago at 6:07:01 p.m. where I won
Link to game that started as a Queen's Pawn Game: Accelerated London System, played 179 days ago at 3:44:42 p.m. where I lost
Link to game that started as a Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Improved Steinitz Defense, played 180 days ago at 10:53:48 p.m. where I won