This was my first league match of 2025, after the Halloween debut. I did say results would get better, because I managed to win my game against T. Chazelle. I was the only one to win my game, since the team lost 1.5-2.5 back then. Game (I PLAYED WHITE): 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Ne7 4. Nf3 Bd7 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. Nxd5 exd5 7. Bd3 c5 8. dxc5 Bxc5 9. O-O O-O 10. Re1 Qb6 11. Be3 Bc6 12. Bxh7+ Kxh7 13. Ng5+ Kg6 14. Qd3+ f5 15. Bxc5 Qxc5 16. Ne6 Qb4 17. Qg3+ Qg4 18. Qxg4 fxg4 19. Nxf8+ Kf7 20. Ne6, Nd7 21. Nd4 Nc5 22. Nxc6 Bxc6 23. Rad1 Rb8 24. b3 a5 25. Rd4 Ne4 26. f3 gxf3 27. gxf3 Ng5 28. Rf4+ Kg6 29. Rg4 Kf5 30. Kg2 Rb4 31. Rxb4 axb4 32. h4 Nd4 33. Kg4 g6 34. f4 Nd4 35. Re7 Kf6 36. Rc7 Kf5 37. Rb7 Nxc2 38. Rb6 c5 39. Rb5 Ke4 40. Rxc5 Ne3 41. Rb5 d4 42. Rxb4 Nd5 43. Rc4 Ke3 44. Rc1 Ke2 45. a4 d3 46. Rc5 Nb4 47. Re5+ Kd1 48. Kf3 Kc2 49. Ke3 Kd1 50. Rb5 d2 51. Rxb4 Ke1 52. Rd4 d1=N+ 53. Rxd1+ (Black Resigns)

One Halloween night, I made my debut in the league side of chess. Each game is 75 minutes with 10 seconds increment for every move made. Of course, I was nervous seeing as though this was my first time. It wasn't a debut to remember, sadly, as I lost to S. Norman. Here's the moves (I PLAYED WHITE IN THIS GAME): 1. e4, c6 2. d4, d5 3. e5, Bf5 4. Bd3, Bxd3 5. Qxd3, e6 6. Nf3, Qc7 7. O-O, Nd7 8. c3, O-O-O 9. Nbd2, h5 10. h4, Be7 11. c4, g5 12. Nxg5, Bxg5 13. hxg5, Ne7 14. Nf3, h4 15. cxd5, Nxd5 16. g6, fxg6 17. Qxg6, Rdg8 18. Qxe6, Rg7 19. Qh3, Kb8 20. Ng5, Nf8 21. f4, Qb6 22. Be3, Nxe3 23. Qxe3, h3 24. Nxh3, Qxb2 25. Ng5, Rg6 26. Qf2, Qa3 27. Qf3, Qb4 28. d5, Rgh6 29. dxc6, Qd4+ After the check, I saw the forced checkmate and reluctantly resigned the position. Wasn't the best debut I was looking for, but there's better positions to come!

Please someone tag everyone we know. August 2025: During the small drama about discussing about whether TCG should have chess non related posts, Thomas sold TopChess to JoeyPowers. JP banned 20+ innocent people including the OGs(including me) and set up rules that made many people dissatisfied as well as making the community $10/m It started a war of we ogs fighting for information, stopping JP from destroying more and tried to get people to AL(the safe haven that time). Since that time, TopChessGang became so dry and only have so few posts without ogs. Like dead chat. September 2025: We discovered a huge quality drop for TopChess S2#46 with different editings, sounds and so on. And we discovered that Mr.Dsb has left TopChess team (original creator of TopChess who help editing work and screenplay work, also acting work as he's the hacker mask guy in S1 ep100& 130) We have found that Mr Dsb has been disrespected and he left the group, resulting in some financial problems despite he created the DeepChess channel with the original lore (the ad bishop x ultimate pawn one, the REAL lore). Meanwhile TopChess is having a fake lore about clock and some random ahh knowledge stones&old gods that appear out of nowhere, completely ignored the fact that chess universe is human made, simulation. DeepChess has been posting very few videos and we fans have to wait for a long time for a video because of financial problems from Mr Dsb Late 2025- 2026: As time has been running, TopChess Gang has changed into TopChess Community, and had a lot of changes about the rules and the price for participating and TopChess Army's promotion. About the channel, it has been found using some old videos to milk content, overall losing quality, views and respect but NOT MANY FANS KNOW THE TRUTH like us so I feel so bad for Mr Dsb and the TopChess Team. Resulted in 2 channels(TopChess and DeepChess) both losing contents and viewers. But, due to the help of Tap Gamer, most of the banned ones (ogs) are finally unbanned and we became part of TopChess again but we were not active because we were tired of dramas and prefer having some comfort zone first. (NOV 2025)

It'll come on the 8th instead. Sorry to those who were expecting one on the 7th! Got caught up in doing other projects (plus i had to do some babysitting)

I know this Skool community may not have much time left, but I have participated in league games for my local C and B team OTB. If you want to see my league games, let me know