KevinSmithIdiot

Social media: You can find me on BlueSky @kevinsmithidiot or on X @kcsmith169

Chessable Author @kcsmith169 Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Fundamentals and Secrets of Trapping Pieces. Fundamentals focuses far more explicitly on recognizable patterns and has more than double the number of exercises. The second book was published first but is for advanced through master-rated players, or folks who have completed the Foundations book. At some point, I will publish a workbook that includes puzzles only and leaves the education to the first two volumes.

Meanwhile, a third book is in development but the topic changes: KIMPLODES! Human Analysis. The goal is to provide a way to analyze your games before asking a silicon chess god to provide incomprehensible answers. The book is being written in collaboration with IM Attila Turzo.

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Favorite openings: Ruy Lopez, both sides. I simply resign if White plays 1 d2-d4, and offer a draw if White plays c2-c4. What I like in chess: weak squares Favorite players: Bent Larsen.

Who am I? Basically, just some yahoo who makes inexplicable blunders, whether OTB or online (mouse slips are explicable, but annoying).

Some key blogs:

 
 Secrets of Trapping Pieces: One Blog to Link Them All This blog provides links to all the 2023 blogs I produced about trapping pieces.

KIMPLODES! Explosive Analysis Approach--Break it up, baby! The first in a series of 2024 blogs that offer an approach to analysis based loosely on some prior work by others such as IM J. Silman.

Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Anastasia's Mate The first in a series of 2024 blogs on the secrets of trapping pieces with a specific emphasis on puzzles to test your skill at completing various mating configurations such as a Suffocation Mate, Arabian Mate, etc.

With help like this, who can write at all.
My Experiences Writing a Second Book – "Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Foundations" 

How to Cheat at Chess: Today's Tawdry Tricks to Tomorrow's Taunting Truths 


All 101 Reasons I Hate Chess