Chess Cube

I have been playing on chess cube. I am not being too serious and annotating my games. I am just playing and having fun. I do take note of the opening, and where I got screwed up. If I get blown off the board, I look for where I went astray.

I am playing the Caro-Kann and Slav as black, and the Queen's Gambit main lines if I ever get them as white.

First of all by just seeking any old 15 minute game I discovered that I play black about 80% of the time. Mostly these have been Caro-Kann exchange variations. I got blown off the board against an advance with an early g4. And the Slavs have all been exchanges. I have fared more poorly than I expected against it. As White it has been a Queen's Gambit Accepted every time but once.

When I signed up for the (free) account I said I was serious. So I was given a starting rating of 1800. In my first several games, I saw it dive to the 1690's. But I have slowly gotten used to the (for me) fast 15 minute games, and my openings and I have climbed into the upper 1700s.

It is just a game.

Tartakower said "Every Chess player should have a hobby."