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Book Published

Chastity’s Chess Chapters is now published as a paperback on Amazon and as an ebook on Smashwords and many other platforms.

The main benefit of buying the book in these formats is reading offline without an internet connection. This is something that cannot be done with the same chapters on my blog.

You are not obligated to buy the book if you prefer to read on this blog. This is just a way you can support me as a writer. Also, if there are any questions you have or errors you found in the book, please let me know so that I can correct and update them. A lot of work went into making this book as error proof as can be but there could always be things that humans have a hard time understanding and could be clarified.

Where to buy the paperback and ebook edition of Chastity’s Chess Chapters

April 9, 2025
Chastity’s Queen’s Gambit Opening Book
The Reference that was too big for the other book!

Chapter 0: Introduction

This is the start of a new Chess book devoted to the Queen’s Gambit. Like the last book, it will be a series of blog posts, usually with some pictures to help you visualize it.

This book will guide you through some of my most tested positions when playing Chess with the Queen’s Gambit. While this may include some material from my first Chess book, Chastity’s Chess Chapters, it will expand further beyond what I had space to include because the paperback was already at 100 pages. To reduce the number of pages and the printing cost, I will be reducing the size of some of the included images.

Like the first book, I want the pictures to be a visual guide for people who have not mastered Chess notation yet. The failure of many Chess books is that they are full of notation and it is hard to follow unless you are literally sitting at a Chessboard or using Chess software to follow along. While you should be doing this for the best experience, I have a photographic memory and I find that without a picture, I won’t really remember what I learned. The visual learners will get the best benefit out of this book.

The Queen’s Gambit Accepted

The Queen’s Gambit sounds like a fancy name, and this name was used for a Netflix show as well. However, this opening was well known before people had televisions, computers, or the internet. The word “gambit” means sacrifice. In this opening white sacrifices a pawn with the hope of getting an advantage later. To some people, it also means a gamble because there is no way of knowing if it will work out the way you want depending on what your opponent does.

The opening starts with each side moving the pawn in front of their queen. Then white moves the pawn on c2 to c4.

In this position, black’s pawn can capture the white pawn and yet it doesn’t appear that white can capture it back, at least not yet. If it does take the pawn, this is known as accepting the gambit. New players will more likely than not take this pawn if they don’t see the trap.

You see, the idea was to distract the pawn and move it away from the center so that white’s king pawn could move two squares forward. Also notice that the white bishop on f1 could also capture the black pawn on c4 next turn, but not so fast, first, black has to choose their next move. The only problem is that there really is no good way for black to stop white from taking their pawn with the bishop. If they try to protect it with another pawn, things can turn out badly. Sooner or later white will capture back the c4 pawn with the bishop and if black tries to stop it, they will only lose more pieces.

My best advice is that if you accept the Queen’s Gambit, also accept that you will lose this pawn and don’t try to defend it by moving the b7 pawn to b5. This has never worked out well for my opponents.

All white has to do is move a pawn to a4 to attack the b5 pawn. The goal is to remove it from defending the c4 black pawn. White’s bishop wants to go there to attack the f7 square.

If you are black, do not let the sequence of the following images happen to you!

I also want you to notice that the previous sequence of moves would still be just as bad if white had decided to move their king’s pawn only one space to e3. There are valid reasons they might do so to add extra protection to the d4 pawn. The d4 pawn is only protected by the queen right now so beware of this in all your games.

In the Queen’s Gambit Accepted, I prefer to move the king’s pawn to e3 because of a really awesome trap that has caused me to win a lot of games. Black’s most common way of protecting the c4 pawn is with pawn to b5. This never works well for black. And in this case, there is a 100% chance of black either losing a rook or a knight.

Let me show you what happens in if white moves pawn to e3 instead of e4 after black defends the c4 pawn with b5.

If you are the black player, I would recommend against accepting the Queen’s Gambit entirely. It leads to many traps by white. If you do accept it, you will lose your pawn anyway. Don’t waste time with that and instead move out other pawns depending on what pieces you plan to move. Below are the two most common responses to the Queen’s Gambit. The following is my written recommendations black should play instead.

1. d4 d5 2. c4

! Good Moves for Black
- e6 Defend the d5 pawn by moving the king’s pawn to e6. If white decides to capture the d5 pawn black will capture back and then white will still not be able to move their bishop to c4. Playing e6 is called the “Queen’s Gambit Declined”. This is the best move in my opinion because moving this pawn there prevents diagonal attacks on the f7 square even if white does manage to get their bishop or queen lined up there.
- c6 Although it is less common, c6, known as the “Slav Defense” is another way to decline the gambit. By playing this move, black is hinting at a possible check against the white king by moving the black queen to a5. In any case, this move has the same idea that black will capture back on d5 if white’s c4 pawn takes it. It isn’t bad but
? Bad Moves for Black
- dxc4 If black takes this pawn, they can fall into one of many possible traps. It is nearly impossible to prevent white from taking back this pawn with the bishop after moving the e pawn. Also, white now has the option to safely move the e pawn to e4 without it being captured because black no longer has the pawn on d5. If black has played dxc4 here, then they are now in a “Queen’s Gambit Accepted” position. White has the advantage of controlling the center with both their king and queen pawns. Black can still win of course but it will be much harder from here.
Queen’s Gambit Declined

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6

If black declines the Queen’s Gambit with e6, there are some things white must look out for. First, by moving the e pawn, black allows their dark squared bishop to get out next turn. This can possibly put the king in check and/or pin the knight if it has moved to c3. Therefore, all evaluation of moves should consider this threat.

! Good Moves for White
- c5 By advancing the c4 pawn to c5, black is prevented from getting their dark squared bishop out entirely. I recommend this as the best move because now both of black’s bishops are prevented from getting out. They already blocked their light squared bishop on e6 and now our c5 pawn prevents them from moving the dark squared bishop there unless they are prepared to get killed by the d4 pawn in response.
- a3 is not the most offensive move but it is a nice defensive measure to prevent the dark squared bishop from coming to b4. This move should be done if white wants to safely move their knight to c3.
- Nf3 Moving the knight to f3 is particularly good in the Queen’s Gambit Declined position because it is safe here and can possibly move to e5 next turn. It also means we have not committed to whether we will move the e pawn one or two squares.
? Bad Moves for White
- Nc3 Whatever you do, don’t try moving the knight to c3 on this turn unless you are prepared to lose it! You can move it here later if you wish but not until you have dealt with the threat of black’s dark squared bishop first. There will be some people who disagree with me on this because they think losing a knight to take down a bishop is a fair trade. However, I protect my knights because they are my “Queen Killers” and are often involved in forks later in the end game that my opponents don’t see. If you move the knight to c3 here, the bishop can move to b4 and the knight can’t move because that would put the king in check.
Slav Defense

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6

I must admit that I have not studied the Slav Defense as much as I have the Queen’s Gambit Declined or Queen’s Gambit Accepted. However, I do have two recommendations for white moves here.
- Nf3 is a solid move because the knight will certainly be involve in the game at some point and is not under immediate threat.
- Bf4 is a good idea here because we can target the knight on b8 now that the c pawn is not in the way. We have a lot of options for where the bishop can go from here. It is a safe move at this point with no real downsides. Don’t hesitate to kill the knight with the bishop unless you are player who prefers to keep your bishops alive. There is some matter of preference when it comes to the value of knights vs bishops.
As I play more games in the Slav defense, I may have more to say here. The Slav Defense has its own merits even though it is not as popular as other responses to the Queen’s Gambit.

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April 8, 2025
My Hybrid Resume Review
Those of you who follow this blog know that I mostly write about Chess here. I have another blog for my main writing. I do a lot of different things and have a lot of skills. Because of this, when I had the task of creating a resume for my recent “Project and Portfolio II: Creative Writing” class, I created one that is a mix of my skills and experience of 3 main areas.

My writing skills are what I feel are the most impressive, however, my grocery store experience is where most of my paid professional experience has been. Therefore, when I created the following resume, what I was going for was to emphasize how my experience writing as an author, speaking to customers in a grocery store, and my computer skills and knowledge of software all work together to qualify me for many types of jobs.

Klebs_Chastity_Skills_Resume Download

Of course, on this site, my main focus is that my communication skills have improved to the point where I can probably teach anyone Chess.

But the truth is that these skills, while they may not be impressive to employers, are the backbone of all the content I have published in my books and on my blogs and social media.

For example, most employers don’t know much about Chess. They also don’t know what LibreOffice, Inkscape, or the work that goes into writing a publishing a book.

I submitted that resume for my Portfolio 2 class and this was the professor’s response.
Here are my recommendations:
- Omit the summary, or at the very least, shorten it to a few words. Most human resources departments make a preliminary decision about which résumés should result in possible interviews in about 7 seconds or fewer. If a résumé cannot be skimmed well in that short span, the résumé and applicant are instantly rejected.
  
  (Generally, a summary section appears first on a resume.)
- Add more relevant skills. As a student, your chief qualifications are neither degrees or work experience, so make the skills list as impressive as possible without lying. Creative writing is not a skill, but a collection of dozens of skills.
Keep up the good work.

All best wishes,

John King
I appreciate his feedback, but I take issue with the fact that managers at companies are skimming through resumes in 7 seconds.

What this means is that people creating resumes to obtain jobs must necessarily shorten and omit details that may actually be VERY important to whether or not they are qualified for the job. The impatience of employers to read resumes is very much a problem.

However, what I am doing is quite different. I am trying to manage different jobs of working at Walmart, doing online college, teaching chess, and writing books and blog posts. Therefore, my resume is longer because it tries to accomplish more than one thing.

And in the unlikely event that I ever did have a stable full-time job working for a company as a writer, I would hope that the people in charge of decisions would be people willing to read. Reading and writing books is an old art that has almost been lost these days because of the modern constant stimulation of videos on social media. From the beginning, it was not this way.

And if you are one of the people who has read this post till the end, then congratulations! I think you are more qualified to judge someone than someone who only looks at a resume for 7 seconds. Let me know how you think a resume should be written.
April 7, 2025
Chapter 9: The Making of the Paperback
Because this Chess book was originally written in Markdown and posted as a series of chapters to my WordPress blog, it did not have any concept of pages or margins because this is not needed to view it on the web. Making a paper book, on the other hand, is different because a physical book is a real physical object of a certain width and height. Some adjustments were needed to submit it to Kindle Direct Publishing.

Therefore, I came up with a process to convert the text into a form that Amazon would accept for an 8.5-inch by 11-inch size book. The following are the exact steps I used with a combination of Pandoc and LibreOffice
1. I created the default odt file that Pandoc uses for style reference. This command came straight from the Pandoc documentation.
pandoc -o custom-reference.odt --print-default-data-file reference.odt
1. I opened the custom-reference.odt file in LibreOffice and modified the left and right page margins to 0.5 for left and right. The images are exactly 7.5 inches wide, so this makes them perfectly centered to fit within the width margins of a page that is 8.5×11 inches. The top and bottom margins are not quite as important, but I set them to 0.5 for consistency.
2. I also changed the style of “Heading 1” to automatically include a page break before the heading so that each chapter would start on a new page.
3. Finally, I used the reference doc after modification as an input when making a new odt conversion of the book.
pandoc ChastityChessChapters.md -o book.odt --reference-doc custom-reference.odt

This file should look good enough to export directly as a PDF in LibreOffice. Although this may seem overly complicated, this process is more useful than you might expect. For one, it bypasses the use of “Industry Standard” tools like Microsoft Word that most writers think they need. Pandoc and LibreOffice are the only two software programs you need to create good-looking documents from Markdown files.

However, this process is unnecessary for most books that contain only text. It was precisely because my Chess book had a lot of pictures that I used Markdown. I used this method because it allowed better control of the images than I could do in LibreOffice alone.

I would also like to mention that several note-taking apps were useful to me as I was writing the book. Below are my top 3 favorite programs out of the many I installed and tried out.
All 3 of those apps are useful for their ability to preview the output of what the source Markdown code will look like. For Mobile devices, Joplin and Simplenote are the best. For a PC with Windows, Mac, or Linux, ghostwriter is especially helpful because it works directly with plain text files on your system just like Notepad does, but it also allows a preview just like Joplin and Simplenote do. Testing the images was essential for making sure my pictures were linked correctly!

In case you were wondering, all of the artwork was made using the program Inkscape. The Chess, Shogi, and Xiangqi pieces are either under a GPL or Public Domain license and came from open-source projects like lichess, lishogi and pychess.

More copies of this book in paperback form can be purchased here on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F44DG4XD
You can buy the paperback edition of Chastity’s Chess Chapters or you can continue reading it for free on this blog.

Chapter 10: The Making of the Ebook
April 1, 2025
Chess of the Day Episode 1: The Goal of Chess Every Day

I decided to start a new thing where I play live Chess on lichess.org every day and Stream it on Twitch. This first episode was a huge success. I won 4 games and responded to some people in the chat before I ended the stream. I have been meaning to stream every day but I just have a crazy life and can’t schedule things the way I want. I just want to at least play one game but for this I played a classical and 3 blitz games. In some episodes I may try playing some Chess variants for variety.

Chess of the Day Challenge 3-27-2025 – Twitch

March 27, 2025
Chapter 8: Too Long Didn’t Read
There will be many people who did not make it past even the first chapter of this book. This book about Chess is necessarily long because I am sharing all the information I possibly can from my years of experience playing Chess and games similar to Chess. At this point, you might be thinking, “This book is too long! I am not going to read all this!” And you would not be the first to think like this.

The truth is that most people, especially in these modern times no longer have the time nor patience to get as deep into Chess as I have. This world is built around a system of instant gratification as people are bombarded with advertising about movies, toys, First Person Shooter video games, and sex. Most people never dedicate their lives to anything with much devotion. They have short attention spans, and they want to feel happy and feel it NOW.

And I think that is what is wrong with the world. I don’t just promote Chess because it is a board game that I happen to enjoy and am pretty good at. I think Chess is actually good for the world. Although you will probably not take the time to read this, I have compiled a list of the benefits of Chess and why I have such loyalty to an ancient board game that almost nobody will play with me outside of nerds on the internet.
1. Chess teaches people to think before they act. Relying on impulse or your first guess is almost certainly wrong. We could all use a little more hesitation in all of our decisions. A person who moves without looking at all the pieces on the board will make huge mistakes. Chess reminds you to look at your surroundings and think of the cause and effect that could take place.
2. Chess teaches you to understand the mind of your opponent. By trying to anticipate what moves your opponent is planning, you are entering their thought process. Many times, I have come to respect someone’s intelligence based entirely on how I see them play Chess. It is the one game where someone’s thought process is evident. Chess is not like Monopoly, where a lucky dice roll can make someone win without really knowing how to play the game. The process of winning is much more satisfying in Chess because you know that you actually outwitted your opponent.
3. Chess is entirely free to play. Although there are many computer programs that you can buy, the original form of Chess is a board game. If you first buy a Chess set, or someone gives you one, you can play with your friends or even play against yourself. There is no limit to how many games you can play. You could play once a week against your friend or you might be obsessed and have played over 5,000 Chess games online like I have. Because there is no punishment or reward for winning or losing, you do it as much as you want, when you want, limited only by your goals.
4. Chess is a game of equality. Race, gender, financial status, religion, or political affiliation have nothing to do with Chess. Being in one category or another does not make you win or lose. It is the one game where you can be considered a loser by society’s constantly changing standards, but you can still win at Chess against someone who is too overconfident and doesn’t have the intelligence to stop you.
5. Learning Chess is easy. Learning to play Chess is really not hard. Chapter 1 covered all the rules that you need to know. A person can begin playing Chess and even win a few games on the same day. It’s not nearly as hard as learning to play most other board, card, or video games.
6. Chess is tough to master. Although it may be easy to learn the rules, getting experienced enough to win 75% or more of the time can take years. By constantly playing and training yourself to avoid mistakes, you can improve. Most people simply don’t have this much time, nor are they willing to sacrifice other things in their lives that they spend time doing. But I honestly think that if Chess were easy to master, then I would have already achieved everything I could do, and then the fun would be over. Chess provides me with enough challenge that I never get bored.
7. Chess can help you make friends. Many people are not physically inclined for other activities. Some of them can’t play sports or participate in what is popular for most people. However, Chess is something that many people can find community in. There are groups, Chess clubs, meetups, and no shortage of online websites, such as lichess.org. Over time, you might meet people who can become good friends over a shared activity like Chess or whatever else you may have in common.
8. Chess is also a game for the solitary. There are hermits like me who can spend much time alone and meditate on the possible moves that can be made. The fact that I can play Chess against a computer when no human is available allows me to test my mind against the artificial intelligence of Chess engines like Stockfish. Chess can help you be social when you want to, but it does not require it if you would rather be left alone. I sometimes play entire Chess games in my head because it brings me comfort for something to make sense when life can be so unpredictable.
If you have made it this far, you can consider yourself above average. Although anyone can play Chess, not everyone sees the beauty of it like I do. My hope is that because I wrote this book, there will be at least one person who has never heard of Chess but comes to learn to play and understand the joy of Chess as much as I have.

If my writing causes even one person to find happiness or relaxation by playing Chess, then I have succeeded in my mission. If you are that person, please let me know.

Chapter 9: The Making of the Paperback
March 25, 2025
Chapter 7: The Value of Chess Notation
As I have said before, you don’t have to learn Chess notation in order to play Chess. You could even be a Grandmaster without learning Chess notation. However, learning Chess notation does have some benefits that you should know about.
1. If you know Chess notation, you can write down any sequence of moves on paper that you play over the board. If this information is not written down, you will probably forget what happened in the game and why you won or lost. This is extremely frustrating for someone who wants to improve.
2. Most Chess websites will automatically keep track of the notation for you. In fact it is quite possible to look at the notation and figure out what it means because it is very simple.
Names of the Squares

If you are viewing the board from the white player’s perspective, the names of the squares are as shown in the following picture.

The letters are called files and the numbers are called ranks. If you are familiar with the name of the squares, then you can know what piece starts on that square and where it can move. For example, the white queen will start on d1 and the black queen will start on be on d8. The kings are on the e file instead of the d file. The 8 white pawns are on rank 2 and the black pawns are on rank 7.

However, if you are the black player, you will have to remember that the view is flipped from the previous image. This means that all your major pieces are along rank 8 instead of rank 1.

Many Chess boards have the letters and numbers printed on the sides of the board to help people remember the names of the squares by reading it like a map.

If learning the names of the squares is too much for you, just remember that it’s not required. However, if you understand the names of the squares, then you can write down from the beginning of the game where a piece moves. For example, if white moved their knight from g1 to f3, then the notation would be written as “Nf3”.

Letters of the Pieces

Each Chess piece, except for pawns, is represented by a letter.
```
K = King
Q = Queen
N = kNight (second letter used because K is already used for King)
B = Bishop
R = Rook
```
Pawns moves are simply written as the name of the square the pawn moved to.

If a piece moves to a square at the same time as capturing something already on that square, then you add an x to the notation For example, if the notation says
```
1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4
```
Then we know that we have reached the Queen’s Gambit Accepted position as described in chapter 2. Black has captured the pawn on c4 that white was trying to sacrifice.

Suppose that a pawn gets all the way to the other side and promotes to a queen. Then the notation would be
```
d8=Q
```
If any move results in putting the king in check, we add a plus sign to that move. For example if white’s bishop were to capture the pawn on f7 and put the black king in check, it would be written as
```
Bxf7+
```
Once you know how to write the notation for the moves, it is possible to record any Chess game and even make notes for yourself. This is especially helpful in Correspondence games. Of course most people don’t write the notation because we have computers to do it for us. I think the main benefit of learning Chess notation is being able to read it.

For example, consider the following notation:
```
1. f3 e5 2. g4 Qh4#
```
If you play those moves on the board or in your head, you will get something that looks like this picture of the fool’s mate from chapter 1.

The # is the symbol for a checkmate, the check where there is no escape for the king. If you are searching a large text file database of games, you can conveniently search for this character to find the games that ended in a checkmate to separate them from games that ended because somebody gave up and resigned.

As someone who plays a lot of online Chess, I accidentally became fluent in Chess notation because I read the notation as I play the games and see it written on the side. As a result, I often speak in Chess notation to describe moves while playing with people.

Unfortunately, people don’t know what I am talking about. For this reason, I felt like it was necessary to at least include this chapter which serves as a basic introduction. Other Chess games have their own notation. For example, Shogi notation is often written in Japanese and Xiangqi notation is written in Chinese. I can’t read their notation systems at all but there are westernized versions of them as well.

A person can also make up their own notation entirely. If you can think of a better system to help you remember what moves you made, then it’s not wrong as long as it helps you.
Chapter 8: Too Long. Didn’t Read.
March 23, 2025
Chastity’s SVG Set for Chinese Chess Set A.K.A. Xiangqi

I had previously made my own custom designs of the board for Standard Chess and Shogi, but I had not yet completed the Xiangqi board. I finally completed my Scalable Vector Graphics set for Xiangqi which is known as Chinese Chess.

This is modeled after the way an Xiangqi board is meant to look. However, I took special effort to make sure that this board and pieces fits within a 720×720 square area. Of course, since I made the SVG file in Inkscape, it can be scaled to whatever size the user wants. The Chinese Chess board is a little bit more complex than it is for Westen Chess or Japanese Chess (Shogi).

March 23, 2025
Chess and Solitaire
Could there be a connection between Chess and Solitaire? I have never written about this before, but I was obsessed with Solitaire in my teen years. At first it was Klondike, Spider, and Freecell because they were included on Windows XP.

When I switched to Linux, I looked for open-source versions of it. The PySol Fan Club Edition had the largest collection of Solitaire games I have ever seen.

But you might be wondering what this has to do with Chess. At the same time that I was playing Solitaire, I was also playing Chess a lot. When I discovered PySol, I was so into the cards that I bought a physical deck and started playing solitaire games and trying to invent my own.

The fact that I got this far into Solitaire is evidence of my tendency to completely hyper-focus on a special interest. I was even designing new playing cards by editing the SVG files included in PySol. Ironically, this is the only game I designed art for besides Chess.

But what reminded me of Solitaire recently was actually Raid Shadow Legends. They added Alice from Alice in Wonderland to the game, except they turned her into a Warrior Goth Girl with the Vorpal Sword and the most incredible outfit, which contains the chessboard and the card suits, from the standard playing card decks.

Both playing cards and Chess are part of the Alice in Wonderland books and their many spinoffs and adaptations. Much like Alice, I, too, am a dreamer who visits a strange place. I have referenced this in some of my blog posts and songs. I have my version of Wonderland.

I don’t know why but as I look at the chessboard and the designs on the playing cards, I can feel the power of these ancient symbols used for many games. Every piece, card, and rule has its history of how it came to be what it is today. Perhaps this is why people like me have board and card games as special interests and never seem to get tired of it. Some things have become famous all over the world. I wrote something about Alice after I saw her in Raid Shadow Legends. Once again, I had a moment upon seeing the design of her dress that reminded me of the games I love and why they bring me comfort.
```
Alice the Wanderer

Alice had no home in the human world. She preferred the nightmares of Wonderland over the nightmares of Earth. She had become stronger than she ever thought possible. She may not be able to win battles on Earth, but she has conquered the battlefield of her mind. She was not sure whether Wonderland was any more or less real than the world that humans called Earth.

She had come to understand that the Mad Hatter was no more mad than she was. As the Cheshire cat had said, we are all mad here. A world of checkerboards and playing cards brought her comfort because it reminded her that life is a game and a game can be won. 

But who sets the rules of the game? Alice was not sure, but she preferred to make her own rules. Alice makes the way and chooses her own path. In any case, it did not matter where she went. Alice was ready for anything, no matter where she was headed. She did not know where she was going, but she would get somewhere if she walked far enough.
```
March 17, 2025
Chastity’s Chess Chapters Song Lyrics

Chastity’s Chess Chapters

I was trying to inspire people to play chess
My plans were good, but the execution was a mess
If people don’t know how to start
Then they will never know that chess is art

I decided to write my own chess book
With large pictures for people to take a look
The new player needs some motivation
Before they even know chess notation

My graphic design was quite berserk
Most of my time was spent on artwork
They needed to be the right size
I failed so many of my tries

I never give up because I am a nerd
I put my heart into every single word
I want my readers to understand
The vision of chess that I have planned

Because chess is not hard to learn
As long as you do not rush your turn
It’s not a game for the strong or fast
But for the patient who can outlast

With every piece that you take
You question if you made a mistake
The book I write will not misleed
But you need the patience to read

If there is something I should show
Then message me and let me know
The game of chess should always be free
If you take the time, I know you will agree

March 16, 2025