Chess Vibes | Seth | Activity https://chessvibes.net/members/f62fe3b2/activity/ Activity feed for Seth. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:12:30 -0600 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.21.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 b5a6b2cf93c4cfa133f9ccfa4e945c1c Seth posted an update: Finally broke 1500! Joined this course last year and […] https://chessvibes.net/news-feed/p/5926/ Sat, 05 Jul 2025 19:33:17 -0600 Finally broke 1500! Joined this course last year and wanted to say thanks to Nelson for putting this together and for the community of people in this blog. My recipe was doing puzzles daily – got my peak rating up to 2500, and forcing myself to stop studying and play more.

This is the game that pushed me over – its not my cleanest game nor does…

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]]> 2 ea9528bcb2e648ec2aeb9b4665232147 Seth posted an update: Haven't had the time to play much recently but still […] https://chessvibes.net/news-feed/p/4464/ Thu, 14 Nov 2024 20:17:59 -0600 Haven’t had the time to play much recently but still taking a few minutes each day to do puzzles. Highly recommend adding ‘poop time puzzles’ to your training regiment for anyone out there who can’t always commit the time they’d like to! XP

]]> 0 44eeb43db0bbf4d080d1ba53f444c6ce Seth posted a new activity comment https://chessvibes.net/news-feed/p/4460/#acomment-4461 Thu, 14 Nov 2024 20:09:00 -0600 Elo goes up and down – don’t sweat it. Just keep playing consistently and you will begin to trend upwards. Volume of games is what matters most

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ok, I actually think I need help so I was following the course and my rating was increased by 200 elo and then in the last 3 days I lost all 200 elo and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong […]

]]> 44451241041a45a1ec618174d84cb6da Seth posted an update: Stonewall has been leading to a lot of drawish games for […] https://chessvibes.net/news-feed/p/2918/ Tue, 27 Aug 2024 02:05:15 -0600 Stonewall has been leading to a lot of drawish games for me so I switched up the opening yesterday and decided to just try to use the principles I’ve learned. Ended up having one of the funnest games in awhile and managed to spot a tactic on move 10 that lead to a fun check mate on move 17! https://www.chess.com/game/live/118282705635

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]]> 1 bc79fae871bae5b31954eb3326b631dd Seth posted an update: Really satisfying Queen trap in the middle of the board […] https://chessvibes.net/news-feed/p/2874/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 23:29:47 -0600 Really satisfying Queen trap in the middle of the board on move 11 in the Owens. Stockfish being rude and marks as an inaccuracy – I used a rook to trap the queen and it liked using the knight to do it while developing (rolls eyes).

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]]> 1 e269032485d78dee531bb37a98fa5239 Seth posted a new activity comment https://chessvibes.net/news-feed/p/2305/#acomment-2592 Tue, 06 Aug 2024 23:37:36 -0600 Can you talk a bit how to handle NE4 in the stonewall. Trading off light squared bishop for the knight only makes it worse when the pawn takes E4.

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Hey guys! Post questions for the first group coaching call (Tuesday, August 6th at 8pm EST) here! Please check first if someone has already asked a similar question and just like/heart […]

]]> 7449771bb624a30add4ab410f0e16fee Seth posted an update: Wow really feeling the gains from this course […] https://chessvibes.net/news-feed/p/2133/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:59:56 -0600 Wow really feeling the gains from this course already! Played the best positional game of my life just now, every single piece just felt so coordinated and always defended. Stienitz would be proud.

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]]> 2 c9cd873e70baef14e8aff9cb5f3d13f6 Seth posted a new activity comment https://chessvibes.net/news-feed/p/2124/#acomment-2130 Thu, 25 Jul 2024 23:05:55 -0600 For me personally, I’m noticing two big take away’s to spot this tactic. First and foremost is restraint – when I see a good move, I have an urge to play it before taking the time refute it and look at other candidate moves or resources my opponent may have. I think good players see the correct move almost instantly but spend time refuting…

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Still working my way through the tactics and just finished Zwischenzug. This was the first tactics lesson that I completely MISSED every example, from easy to master. I’m beside myself […]

]]> 82a133785ddc785c2639139c21e1e074 Seth posted a new activity comment https://chessvibes.net/news-feed/p/1960/#acomment-1963 Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:36:32 -0600 SOLUTION SPOILER

Really fun example of zugzwang, loved how forcing this was this sequence was without ever having to give a check.

1. Kf5, g4
2. Kf4, g3
3. hxg3#

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Had this puzzle pop up today and really liked it, thought some of you may enjoy. White to move.

I’ll post solution as a comment below.

]]> a8b71186eb7d38d51035a55cc67ca72d Seth posted an update: Had this puzzle pop up today and really liked it, […] https://chessvibes.net/news-feed/p/1960/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:27:49 -0600 Had this puzzle pop up today and really liked it, thought some of you may enjoy. White to move.

I’ll post solution as a comment below.

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