Amateur chess digest

Don't let my brilliant tactics and sound positional play fool you, I'm an amateur chess player. A few years ago I used to play quite a bit, but work got in the way and I put the game down for a while. However, I'm determined to pick it back up. In fact I hereby declare that I'm going to play weekly and study enough to be able to play in the Mechanic's Institute Tuesday night blitz without embarrassing myself.

I'm an amateur chess player and as such, books of annotated chess games, aren't of much use to me. I find they assume a certain skill level and understanding of the game that I don't possess and as I study them, I continually wonder why certain lines, moves or ideas are passed over and ignored. I like Pandolfini's 'crime and punishment' approach to teaching Chess...that really worked for me. What I'd really like to see are some annotated chess games that look more familiar. Games with lines that I would play, variations that I'd consider....something like an amateur chess digest. That's why I'm going to post my games here and annotate them myself.