by scribe | Aug 7, 2010 | Chess Lecture, current news, positions, tournaments
Yesterday was a good news/bad news day for me at the US Open, but the bad left a deeper impression. I won my morning game, a nice King’s Gambit (I was White) with Westerinen’s line 1. e4 e5 2. f4 ef 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nc3 c6 5. d4 Bb4. I lectured on that once...
by scribe | Aug 6, 2010 | games, positions, ruminations, tournaments
So I was thinking that I really didn’t want to write this blog entry. Nobody wants to read my moaning and groaning about how badly I’m playing, right? Losing is boring. People only care about the winners.But then it occurred to me that people who really...
by scribe | Aug 4, 2010 | current news, endings, games, positions, tournaments
It’s still too early to say much about how the tournament is going — one one round finished out of nine! But Cailen, Thadeus and I were all disappointed in different ways by our first games. I was paired against a class B player named Ken Ivens. Once again...
by scribe | Jul 29, 2010 | Crestbook, people, tournaments, translations
Please check out my translation of the third and final part of the Alexander Khalifman interview on Crestbook! If you missed the first two parts, you can also find them here and here. Khalifman was the winner of the 1999 FIDE World Championship knockout tournament in...
by scribe | Jul 25, 2010 | Crestbook, current news, games, tournaments, translations
As the final day of the Dortmund tournament dawned, there was still an outside chance at a three-way tie for first. Ruslan Ponomariov was leading with a score of 6-3, while Le Quang Liem was tied with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov at 5-4. Le was paired against Ponomariov,...
by scribe | Jul 23, 2010 | Crestbook, current news, games, tournaments, translations
Who would have thought, before this tournament, or any tournament, that it would be possible to describe Vladimir Kramnik and Peter Leko with such a word? But it’s true: in Dortmund 2010 they are both far out of contention. Barring an unforeseen debacle, it...
