by scribe | Feb 2, 2012 | current news, people, tournaments
As many readers probably know already, the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival just ended, with one very familiar name on top — GM Nigel Short — and one very surprising one. The co-winner with Short was the 17-year-old Women’s World Champion, Hou...
by scribe | Jan 25, 2012 | games, positions, tournaments
Today I’m going to show you a game that I played in Reno in October — a game that began with great promise but ended with multiple blunders by me. For that reason I had not planned to blog about it, but I changed my mind for three reasons. It illustrates...
by scribe | Jan 19, 2012 | Chess Life, current news, people, tournaments
In every issue of Chess Life you can see dozens of upcoming tournaments. And yet for about 98 percent of them, you never find out who won. Only the big national tournaments ever get covered in the magazine. I was reminded of this when Pablo Pena sent in a comment a...
by scribe | Jan 15, 2012 | people, positions, ruminations, tournaments
Last night Mike Splane was showing me and Gjon Feinstein a game he played in the New Year Open, and we got to this position. White to move. Black, a young player named Richard Yi, has just played 18. … e5!, a move that Michael says that he completely overlooked....
by scribe | Jan 9, 2012 | off-topic, people, tournaments
So you all must be wondering, “Why were you, a chess blogger living in the San Francisco Bay area, not at the Northern California International chess tournament last week?” Unfortunately, this tournament always seems to conflict with the Joint Mathematics...
by scribe | Jan 8, 2012 | games, positions, tournaments
I’ve just spent about five hours analyzing the finishing position of my game with Emory Tate from last weekend. Here’s the position: Black to move. White (IM Tate) has just played 24. Ra2 and offered a draw. What should Black do? Let’s ask the...
