by scribe | Dec 21, 2010 | current news, endings, people
They just keep on coming! Young chess talents in the San Francisco Bay area, that is. Now Samuel Sevian has become the youngest national master in U.S. history, beating by 11 days the record set by Nicholas Nip (also from the SF Bay area). When Nip set the record a...
by scribe | Oct 30, 2010 | current news, endings, games, people
I think a lot of people, even in the U.S., may not have heard of Steven Zierk before this week. He made some waves when he upset GM Loek Van Wely last year in Reno, and he played on the San Francisco Mechanics team in the U.S. Chess League for the last couple of...
by scribe | Aug 8, 2010 | current news, endings, games, openings, positions, tournaments
The penultimate round of the 2010 US Open was a very strange one for me. The last two rounds are being played on a one-a-day schedule, so I had to wait around all day (until 7:30 pm) to play my game. And then it took all of 14 minutes to play! My opponent blundered a...
by scribe | Aug 4, 2010 | current news, endings, games, positions, tournaments
It’s still too early to say much about how the tournament is going — one one round finished out of nine! But Cailen, Thadeus and I were all disappointed in different ways by our first games. I was paired against a class B player named Ken Ivens. Once again...
by scribe | Jul 21, 2010 | Crestbook, current news, endings, games, tournaments
I’ve had a couple of days off from translating Sergey Shipov’s commentary on the Dortmund tournament, while Colin McGourty has ably translated rounds 5 and 6. You can read his translations at www.chessintranslation.com or follow the original commentary (in...
by scribe | May 11, 2010 | 2010 world championship, current news, endings, games
The match for the world championship is over, and the new champion is the same as the old champion: Vishwanathan Anand! In my last post I estimated that there was about a 5 percent chance that Anand would pull off a last-gasp victory as Black. That was surely a little...
