by scribe | Dec 22, 2022 | endings, games, literature, positions
Today I’m going to finish my series of posts on one of the classic rook-and-pawn endgames: the endgame with balanced pawns on the kingside, and with one player enjoying an outside passed pawn on the queenside. The prototypical position is number 367 in Reuben...
by scribe | Sep 18, 2022 | games, openings, positions, tournaments
For the last month, since I got back from my disastrous tournament in Minneapolis, I haven’t shown any games from it because I thought they would be too embarrassing. But in order to learn from a failure, you have to face it and ask what happened and why. So now...
by scribe | Jul 24, 2022 | games, people
A couple weeks ago I wrote about an online game that I played against Grandmaster Mackenzie Molner. We agreed to play a second game with the same conditions: game in 30 minutes, 5 second time delay per move, and each of us would write our comments on the game for the...
by scribe | Jul 12, 2022 | chess clubs, Chess Life, current news, games, literature, openings, people
Mike Splane, Life Master, Five-time Kolty Club Champion, and first posthumous author of “My Best Move” If you look through the July 2022 issue of Chess Life, you might find a familiar name on the last page. Mike Splane, whom I have mentioned many times on...
by scribe | Jun 22, 2022 | current news, games, people
Last month I received a surprise e-mail from Mackenzie Molner, a grandmaster who is launching a “chess academy” at grandmastermac.com. He asked if I would be interested in having him write a guest post for my blog, as a way of cross-promoting both my blog...
by scribe | Jun 11, 2022 | current news, games, openings, people
With this post, I bring to a close my pandemic project for this blog: a retrospective of all 50 years of my chess career (so far). I had intended to end the series with a game from 2021, my fiftieth calendar year of tournament chess. Unfortunately, the pandemic did...
