by scribe | Aug 15, 2013 | current news, games, openings, positions, tournaments
It was just yesterday that I was watching a steady stream of queenside openings, flank openings, etc. and thinking, “Wouldn’t be great if just once I could see a King’s Gambit in this tournament?” Well, today Aleksandr Shimanov granted my wish!...
by scribe | Aug 4, 2013 | chess clubs, games, positions
I don’t usually blog about speed games, but I played one on Friday night against Gjon Feinstein that was pretty darned entertaining… First, you have to understand that Gjon beats me about 90 percent of the time in speed chess. However, this game was the...
by scribe | Jul 7, 2013 | Chess Lecture, current news, games, positions, tournaments
This weekend I played in the Pacific Southwest Open in Los Angeles. Although I have lived in California for 17 years, I’ve only played two previous tournaments in southern California (both U.S. Opens). Of course, one reason is that California is a big state;...
by scribe | Jul 4, 2013 | Chess Lecture, games, openings, people, ruminations
This morning I listened to one of Dennis Monokroussos’ most recent ChessLectures, entitled “Jobava’s Giuoco Piano Forte.” It was a nice lecture, going over a game where Georgian (as in Republic of Georgia) grandmaster Baadur Jobava crushed...
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 17, 2013 | Chess Lecture, games, positions, ruminations
A couple weeks ago Francisco Anchondo asked me to write a post about our game from the last round of the Larry Evans Memorial (which we played in March). We’ve played two games now and I’ve won them both, but not without a few close calls and moments of...
