by scribe | Oct 16, 2013 | games, people, positions
At Mike Splane’s latest chess party, on Sunday, Richard Koepcke showed us a game that involved a “hanging pawns” formation in the center, where the owner of the hanging pawns did not play actively enough, let them get blockaded, and eventually lost....
by scribe | Oct 14, 2013 | Chess Lecture, current news, games, literature, people
Lisa, Jesse Kraai’s Great American Chess Novel, is now available through Amazon.com! Even more than the Great American Chess Novel, it’s the Greater San Francisco Bay Chess Novel. Astute readers will notice several local personalities in the novel —...
by scribe | Sep 11, 2013 | chess clubs, games, positions
I don’t usually play against the kids in the Aptos Library Chess Club, because the games are rarely satisfying in any way. Basically I just take material and win, because most of the students are not on a level yet where they know about keeping their pieces...
by scribe | Sep 2, 2013 | current news, games, positions, tournaments
The 2013 CalChess State Championship had one recurring theme for me — amazing escapes. In round 1 I lost (well, sacrificed) a pawn and managed to draw. In round 2, as I showed in my last entry, I was down an exchange for a pawn and still managed to win. Round 3...
by scribe | Aug 21, 2013 | chess clubs, current news, games, positions, tournaments
As you can see from the photograph, I am not the only creature in my household who has been following the World Cup with fascination! Ginger Snap is one of our temporary visitors, a foster kitten whom we are taking care of until she is old enough for someone to adopt...
by scribe | Aug 18, 2013 | current news, games, positions, tournaments
“We’re looking for heroes,” said Sergey Shipov in his commentary on the World Cup today at www.chesstv.ru. What Shipov meant was that some of the players with their backs against the wall — Aronian, Grischuk, Adhiban, Moiseenko, Hammer,...
