by scribe | Feb 16, 2014 | Chess Lecture, endings, positions, tournaments
Today Gjon Feinstein and I were going over a wonderful game between Wei Yi and John Bryant from the recent Bay Area International, a game that I’m planning to lecture on for ChessLecture. There’s one variation that I wasn’t quite sure how to...
by scribe | Nov 2, 2013 | endings, games, positions
Right after I posted Mike Splane’s game with Igor Ivanov I was going to post my own, but then I got too busy. But here it is — better late than never! I played against Ivanov in the 2002 North American Open, a tournament that went very well for me. We...
by scribe | Sep 9, 2013 | endings, positions, tournaments
In the comments to my latest post there was some interesting discussion of the “lost art of the post-mortem.” However, I was fortunate enough this weekend to have a delayed postmortem of two of my games from the CalChess State Championship. In this case...
by scribe | Sep 3, 2013 | current news, endings, positions, ruminations, tournaments
In my last two posts I wrote about two of my “great escapes” in the 2013 CalChess Labor Day Championship. (The first was a game I won against Myagmarsuren after blundering or sacrificing the exchange; in the second I drewm against Rand after being 3 pawns...
by scribe | Jun 24, 2013 | chess clubs, endings, games, positions, tournaments
On Saturday I played my third game in the Saturday Knights Marathon at Bay Area Chess. With so few players in the tournament (only four on Saturday), Thadeus and I knew that it was inevitable that we would play each other, and this gave me a chance to prepare for both...
by scribe | Jun 2, 2013 | chess clubs, endings, games, openings, positions, translations
Last night I played in the first round of the June Saturday Knight Live Marathon at Bay Area Chess. Compared to most tournaments, I would describe this one as… intimate. There were only twelve players on six boards, split into two sections. If you do the math,...
