by scribe | Mar 29, 2008 | Chess Lecture, endings, games, literature, people, tournaments
A quick update between rounds… I won in both round three and round four, so I now have a score of 2-2 and feel as if I’m back in the tournament. When I told my wife last night about my nervousness with this funny time control, she said, “Why? It...
by scribe | Mar 2, 2008 | endings, games, tournaments
Hi chess fans! There are many places on the Web where you can read about the super-GM tournament in Linares, but only here can you read about the Santa Cruz Cup! Today we “almost” finished the round-robin portion of our tournament, but there is one game...
by scribe | Feb 27, 2008 | Chess Lecture, endings, people, tournaments
This is just an entry devoted to odds and ends of various kinds. First of all, I just wanted to let everybody know that I’ve gotten over my blunder of last Sunday, which I wrote about in my post “Back to Square One.” I now realize it was not the...
by scribe | Feb 11, 2008 | endings, games, positions, tournaments
In yesterday’s round five of the Santa Cruz Cup, Jeff Mallett and I played a very exciting game. After a death-defying opening in which Jeff seemed to get a huge advantage, I gradually managed to improve my position, and shortly after the time control I had an...
by scribe | Jan 30, 2008 | endings, literature
A few months ago I bought a copy of Silman’s Complete Endgame Course, and I’m finally starting to dig into it. I think I’m going to learn a heck of a lot from it. The only endgame book I have really studied before was a slim book by Averbakh called...
by scribe | Jan 11, 2008 | Chess Lecture, endings, games, tournaments
A couple weeks ago the Russian Superfinals finished. It was a wonderfully hard-fought tournament, with fewer than 50% draws in the men’s bracket and an even smaller percentage on the women’s side. Alexander Morozevich won the men’s tournament with a...