Category Archives: Chess

My second “perfect game” at lichess.org

My current account at LiChess is “DoomerDiaries.” According to the computer analysis feature there, I just played a perfect game. In years of having computers analyze my games, this is only the second perfect game I’ve ever played. Given how complicated the position was at times, this is 100% just dumb luck.

BTW, “perfect” means I didn’t make any moves the computer thinks sucked. It does not mean I always played the best move.

Here is the game:

https://lichess.org/WQD9ZpLZ

A Game of Chess

Against a not-particularly strong opponent, I managed to play a mistake-free game (according to LiChess.org computer analysis.) My first clean game. My moniker on LiChess is “Happy_Puppy.”

Cardinal Open, 1988

This video is round one of the 1988 Cardinal Open Chess Tournament, which took place in Columbus Ohio, in January, 1988. I have identified a few of the titled players to the best of my memory.