Every once in a while I play a good game.

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Bizarre game. Won 5-0 the chess.com USCF online rated tournament 2016-05-20

My chess.com rating is up.   My round 5 opponent is listed as having "NM" title.  His last move was an odd blunder.  Mouse slip?

[Event "Live Chess"]

[Site "Chess.com"]

[Date "2016.05.20"]

[White "WilliamRDavis"]

[Black "john2001plus"]

[WhiteElo "1717"]

[BlackElo "1858"]

[TimeControl "900+10"]

[Termination "john2001plus won by resignation"]

[Result "0-1"]

1.d4 {[%clk 0:15:05]} Nf6 {[%clk 0:14:55]} 2.Nd2 {[%clk 0:15:12]} e5 {[%clk 0:14:36]}  (The reason I played this was because of a famous trap.)  3.dxe5 {[%clk 0:15:11]} Ng4  (The famous trap is 4. h3??? Ne3! The Champion of France lost this way once.)  {[%clk 0:14:43]} 4.Ngf3 {[%clk 0:15:11]} Bc5 {[%clk 0:14:42]} 5.e3 {[%clk 0:15:15]} Nc6 {[%clk 0:14:33]} 6.Ne4 {[%clk 0:15:02]} Bb6 {[%clk 0:14:28]} 7.Be2 {[%clk 0:14:45]} O-O {[%clk 0:14:09]} 8.O-O {[%clk 0:14:37]} Re8 {[%clk 0:13:10]} 9.Ng3 {[%clk 0:12:46]} Ngxe5 {[%clk 0:12:30]} 10.c4 {[%clk 0:12:23]} d6 {[%clk 0:12:32]} 11.b3 {[%clk 0:12:15]} Bg4 {[%clk 0:12:16]} 12.Nxe5 {[%clk 0:11:31]} Bxe2 {[%clk 0:12:24]} 13.Bb2 {[%clk 0:11:10]} 

0-1

An easy win

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Chess game

[Event "Greenwood Indiana Chess Club"]
[Site ""]
[Date "2016.05.02"]
[Round ""]
[White "al Nelms, John Coffey, Greg Marshal "]
[Black "iPhone tChess 1600"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "40/3600"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 c5 5. e3 O-O 6. Bd3 d5 7. O-O dxc4 8. Bxc4
Nc6 9. a3 Ba5 10. Qd3 a6 11. Bd2 b5 12. Ba2 Bc7 13. Rac1 Qd6 14. Bb1 Bd7 15.
dxc5 Qxc5 16. Ne4 Bxh2+ 17. Nxh2 Nxe4 18. Rxc5 Nf6 19. Ng4 Rfd8 20. Nxf6+ gxf6
21. Qxh7+ Kf8 22. Rxc6 Bxc6 23. Bb4+ Ke8 24. Bg6 Rd5 25. Bxf7+ Kd8 26. Bxe6 Rd7
27. Bxd7 Bxd7 28. Qe7+ Kc7 29. Rc1+ Kb6 30. Qc5+ Kb7 31. Qc7# 1-0

The best video I have seen on how to play chess

Although the video goes pretty quickly through the rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM2fcenx7KU