Welcome to the blog of the Clermont Chess Club. This blog has been set up for a few different reasons.
The primary reason is to provide an online presence for club members to
opine and discuss matters pertaining to chess and the club, and to do so
in a manner that is more easily searched and indexed than the Club's Facebook account.
Facebook simply does not allow for easy searches on past material, and I
think that's a shame given some of the games and analyses that have
been published there.
The secondary reason is Blogger will allow for much more formatting than
Facebook. The worst thing about being on Facebook, for me, is that
complete inability to use HTML code. Grrr.
The tertiary (and admittedly personal) reason is that I've been wanting a
chess blog of my own for a few months now, just to collect my own
opinions and mental meanderings on the game. May as well put it out
there for ridicule from my fellow club members as well as the public at
large!
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So, that's the why. Now for some more specifics about the what.
At the moment I (Todd Durham) am the only poster here. I expect and hope
that will change soon. In the meantime, I will add content as I find
the time and the interest. I've already put up a few posts before taking
the blog "live". Unfortunately, I am still trying to figure out how to
post games - specifically games that can be replayed live online. I can
post games in PGN format, and I can even post diagrams and analysis, but
I haven't yet figured out a good way to post games in a replayable
manner. I suspect that one of the other members will not have this
problem, as he has a much more recent version of ChessBase, but we'll
see. In the meantime I will plod along as best I can.
I've got ideas for certain recurring features.
First would be a "From the Archives" series, in which I would pull games
& analyses from the various books, magazines and other material I
own, with an eye towards checking the older material against the silicon
beasts, and seeing how opinions have changed over time. First up will
probably be the second match game from the Petrosian-Fischer Candidates
Match in 1971, which famously ended Fischer's 20/19/13 game winning
streak.
Second would be a feature called "Dumpster Diving" which will consist of
positions I find amusing from my own collection of games, especially
all the garbage online games I've played through the years. The title
gives it away: don't expect high-quality (or any-quality) chess there!
A third likely feature would be "Games from the Clubhouse", which is
exactly what it sounds like. Occasionally we manage to play a game or
two with some interesting positions, and hey, this is our blog.
And, of course, I'm hoping and expecting some posts from other club members.
But don't expect any of these features or other posts to be regular. I
would like to see a constant flow of content on these pages, but
ultimately this is a side project for all concerned.
That's all for now. Hopefully this will be an enjoyable project for all of us!
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