My 2022 Year In Review

Hey Chess Friends,

Did you get your Chess.com Year In Review email yet? It inspired me to write up my annual review of my personal chess highlights of the year.

2022 was a busy chess year for me as I toured the chess podcast world promoting my book on defense in chess. Here's my discussion with Ben Johnson on Perpetual Chess. I also had fun talks with The Chess Experience, 64: A Chess Podcast, and Chess Journeys. 

In the meantime, I managed to play a lot of blitz and bullet here on Chess.com. It was a good year performance-wise as I reached new peaks in both formats, even breaking 2800 a couple of times in bullet.

Here are a few tactical puzzles.

First, a good pattern to know.

For this next one you can flip the order of the first two moves, but you get full credit if you find the idea.

Some powerful knights here.

Maybe my favorite move of the year...