by scribe | Nov 30, 2009 | games, positions, tournaments
As I wrote in yesterday’s entry, I had another interesting game with the Radchenko Variation of the Two Knights Defense yesterday. It’s funny, after playing this line only three times in 20 years, I have had two chances to play it this year....
by scribe | Nov 28, 2009 | games, people, tournaments
Back in the old days of the Cold War, Mad magazine use to have a great cartoon called “Spy vs. Spy.” (Maybe they still do — I haven’t looked at Mad for about 30 years.) The cartoon chronicled the never-ending escapades of two spies, the White...
by scribe | Nov 25, 2009 | Chess Lecture, games, people, tournaments
Yesterday Jesse Kraai gave his usual excellent ChessLecture, which this time was called “The Panda Loses to Wang Hao in the First Round of the World Cup.” It was about his friend/housemate/training partner Josh Friedel, who qualified to play in the 2009...
by scribe | Nov 21, 2009 | Chess Lecture, games, off-topic, tournaments
Yesterday I was driving around town when the song “I’ve Seen All Good People” by Yes came on the radio. This was the first time that I had ever really listened carefully to the song, even though it dates back to 1971. In fact, it was practically the...
by scribe | Nov 11, 2009 | Chess Lecture, games, openings, tournaments, US Chess League
All right, let’s talk a little bit more about what happens in Bronstein’s Folly (1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. g4!?) if Black “chickens out” and plays 4. … Bd7. The reason for this is twofold: first, it came up in a recent US Chess...
by scribe | Oct 31, 2009 | Chess Lecture, games, positions, tournaments
And now, back to chess. However, the blog stats make me wonder whether I should post off topic more often. My blog got more than 200 hits on the day that my post about Jorge Cham’s detention went up — even though I had no information to offer other than...
