by scribe | Jan 1, 2011 | Chess Lecture, current news, people, tournaments
The new year is barely nine hours old, so what could I possibly write about? Well, my first e-mail of the New Year came at 1:11 AM on 1/1/11. It was a comment from a listener named “plutarco” on one of my ChessLectures, “The Golden Rule of...
by scribe | Dec 23, 2010 | Chess Life, people, tournaments
As I mentioned in my last post, the US Chess Federation now makes it possible to get oodles of statistics about your personal tournament history. My favorite item is a list of the 30 people you have played the most rated games with — your greatest rivals....
by scribe | Dec 22, 2010 | Chess Life, ruminations, tournaments
The U.S. Chess Federation keeps upgerading the quality of its member statistics. The latest goodie is a “Game Statistics” page, which lets you see things like this: Your overall won-loss record since 1991. Your won-loss against each 100-point rating tier....
by scribe | Nov 15, 2010 | 2010 world championship, games, people, positions, tournaments, translations
A couple days ago I figured out how to get WordPress to tell me which posts on this site have gotten the most viewers. Just in case you would like to see what your fellow readers like to read about, here are my top 15 posts by popularity, along with links. Also, I...
by scribe | Nov 3, 2010 | current news, people, tournaments
Yesterday the San Jose Mercury News, which is Steven Zierk’s home-town newspaper (he lives in Los Gatos, a suburb of San Jose) published a very extensive article about his triumph in the world under-18 chess championship. I urge you all to read it! I think one...
by scribe | Oct 15, 2010 | current news, ruminations, tournaments
These are four words that I never thought I would get a chance to say. But now the US Chess Federation has gone and changed the rules! As many of you probably know, the USCF used to have a Life Master title that was based on rating: if you played 300 games with your...
