by scribe | Mar 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
It’s a drizzly Sunday morning here in Tulsa, as we get ready for round six. I can see from the comments that some of you want pairings. We’ve got your pairings! Here they are. Games start at 9:00 local time, 10:00 Eastern time. Yermolinsky (4.5) –...
by scribe | Jan 26, 2008 | literature, people, ruminations, Uncategorized
So this afternoon I’m driving back home from the bookstore, and thinking about how there are so many books where the young hero outfoxes the older generation. You can start with Harry Potter and go through just about the whole Young Adult section of the...
by scribe | Nov 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
“What are those pictures for?” One of the kids in my Aptos Library chess club was looking at the page I had opened to in Chess Tactics for Kids. Probably he had never looked at the inside of a chess book before. It’s the sort of question that kids...
