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 | Jul 18, 2010 | Crestbook, current news, games, tournaments, translations
We move on now to round four of the Dortmund super-GM tournament, and once again I will translate GM Sergey Shipov’s commentaries for you. In yesterday’s blog post I forgot to give the obligatory link to Crestbook, where his original commentaries (in...
by scribe | Jul 17, 2010 | Crestbook, current news, games, tournaments, translations
As I announced in yesterday’s blog post, I will be translating grandmaster Sergey Shipov’s commentaries on the Dortmund tournament for rounds 3, 4, 7, 8, and 10. The translations of the other rounds (1, 2, 5, 6, and 9) can be found at...
by scribe | Jun 27, 2010 | games, off-topic, ruminations
Last week I went with my wife to a quilting and crafts expo in Reno, which gave me a lot of time to kill, and so it happened that on Thursday I watched the end of the longest match in tennis history. For those of you who pay even less attention to tennis than I do,...
by scribe | Jun 13, 2010 | games, positions, ruminations
One of my positions in the recent Chicago Open could have reached a position that I think only a computer could play correctly. Yesterday I got together with four friends — Yves Tan, Gjon Feinstein, Cailen Melville, and Thadeus Frei — and we spent at least...
by scribe | May 30, 2010 | current news, games, people, positions, tournaments
 Sam Shankland had a pretty disappointing performance at the U.S. Championship, as he tied for last place and had no wins in nine games. But here at the Chicago Open, he has turned it around. This round he beat Alex Lenderman to move into a tie for first with...
