by scribe | Jul 11, 2021 | games, openings, positions, tournaments
Recently I wrote a post in which I listed my best and worst tournaments by rating improvement or rating loss. But one of the highlights of my chess career was a tournament where I gained only 2 rating points! I also didn’t win any prize money or beat any USCF...
by scribe | Jul 4, 2021 | endings, games, tournaments
We’re on the home stretch now! For so long the games in this rear-view mirror have been so old that it seems almost as if they were played by a different person. But now we’re up to the year 2011, which doesn’t seem like that long ago. As I mentioned...
by scribe | Jun 26, 2021 | games, openings, tournaments
In 2010, according to the USCF online database, my rating hit its lowest point ever. At the 2010 CalChess Labor Day Classic (the northern California state championship) I withdrew after four rounds with a score of 0.5-3.5, culminating in a loss against a player rated...
by scribe | Jun 19, 2021 | endings, games, people, tournaments
As I’ve mentioned before, we have moved into the part of my 50-year retrospective that has already been covered in my blog. So it’s not too surprising that my best game from 2009, and the one that I want to show you today, is a game that I already analyzed...
by scribe | Jun 13, 2021 | Chess Lecture, games, openings, people, tournaments
After my all-time best game, my win over IM David Pruess in 2006, I was invited by IM (and soon to be grandmaster) Jesse Kraai to record a lecture about the game for ChessLecture.com. The lecture instantly hit their top-ten list, and it was so popular that I was...
by scribe | Jun 5, 2021 | chess clubs, Chess Life, games, off-topic, ruminations, tournaments
In 2007, I had my first and only slight brush with celebrity, when I appeared on national television for the first time. I was interviewed for a new television show called “The Universe,” which aired for four or five season on the History Channel. In the...
