About Blundercheck

A blundercheck is a quick mental list of factors to consider before making a move in chess. It’s the make or break between total noobs and relatively strong amateur players. Avoiding failure is 80% of being a good chess player. The other 20% is a messy combination of luck, a huge amount of rote memorization, and a competitive nature.

You can expect a lot of pieces here about procedural concepts like blunderchecks, as well as more broad topics like risk, safety, and management theory. I post about once a month, sometimes more, as my main focus is to help coordinate the Summer of Protocols research program and community. This blog functions as a dragnet for my longterm research interest: the nature of safety.

I love hiking, soccer, chess, dogs, music, coffee, forestry, and all that good stuff so there will be occasionally be some more grounded content. Also, my Notes section will be all over the place. You can find more of my writing over at Protocolized, which I help with as an editor.