"That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one”- (Bobby Fischer) Hello everyone, I hope you all doing good. Tomorrow is another round of Hive chess hosted by @stayoutoftherz on lichess.org. Tomorrow event would be a 4+2 blitz arena that would would last for 70 minutes. Not so much to write about today however, I'm looking forward to a few things tomorrow.

I love all positions. Give me a difficult positional game, I will play it.But totally won positions, I cannot stand them" - Unknown Hello Everyone, The last Hive chess tournament was a bullet one. The time control was 2+1 and many Hive games weren't decided until the last few seconds. Chess is a game were everyone expect the stronger player to win and most times they do- but, we also see several shocking results. The question is why? The Art of swindling. I have been swindled many times and I have won so many games from swindling my opponents so I believe it is an art. In this post, I'd explain what swindling is and using Hive chess tournaments, I'd show some examples.

Adequate compensation for a sacrifice is having a sound combination leading to a winning position; adequate compensation for a blunder is having your opponent snatch defeat from the jaws of victory." - Bruce A. Moon Hello Everyone,

Daring ideas are like Chess men moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game”Hello Everyone, welcome to another post of mine where I talk about the last round of Hivechess hosted by @stayoutoftherz. As you can see from the image above, I came 3rd - A finish that came down to a last draw offer I made in the dying seconds of the tournament.

"***Sometimes a Pawn is enough to change the whole game and those who ignore the importance of it, are liable to lose their Queen.***” – Sandeep Sharma It's two days to another Hive chess tournament and this time it would be bullet. 2+1! If you want to join, take your time to read the reminder post here by @stayoutoftherz and don't forget to comment your username.

Image by satheeshsankaran From pixabay,edited using canvasA friend hit me up today, concerned. He sent me a tweet link on discord. It was a tweet from MartypartyI get his worry, The last time we talked about Crypto and withdraw, I might have told him that I withdrew only through binance p2p. But that was a long time ago. Ever since the Nigeria Vs Binance issue. Naira (Ngn) has been banned from p2p