by scribe | Aug 19, 2009 | endings, games, literature, people, positions, tournaments
Back in April I posted an entry called “Chicken!” (part 1) that began telling the story of a game I played with a master named Rich Jackson in the 1987 North Carolina Championship. This particular tournament was one of the highlights of my chess career, as...
by scribe | Aug 5, 2009 | ruminations, tournaments
Last weekend, as I mentioned in a previous post, I played in the Silicon Valley Challenge, a tournament that offered free entry to National Masters. This posed an interesting question: Would they give me a free entry, even though my current rating is 2102? The minimum...
by scribe | Aug 3, 2009 | endings, games, tournaments
In my last post I reported on the results of the Silicon Valley Challenge. Although I was disappointed in my score (2.5/4), it was not all bad. I had two really fascinating endgames. Unfortunately, I botched them both in time trouble, drawing one and losing the other....
by scribe | Aug 2, 2009 | people, tournaments
Yesterday I played in the Silicon Valley Challenge #7, a four-round, game/60 tournament organized by Charles Sun, a strong junior player who also happens to be interested in directing tournaments. It’s a rare thing for juniors to be interested in directing, and...
by scribe | Jul 26, 2009 | chess clubs, games, tournaments
Last weekend four people from Santa Cruz went to San Francisco to play in the Bagby Memorial at the Mechanics Institute. This was a one-day, five-round tournament with a fast time control, something like game/45. I would never be crazy enough to play in a tournament...
by | Jun 17, 2009 | chess clubs, positions, tournaments
Every Tuesday I run a chess club for kids at the Aptos Public Library. Yesterday we had seven kids, whose names are (possibly with different spellings) Colin, Marius, Michael, Jesslyn, Mo, Coco, and Milo. That’s three girls out of seven — not bad! One of...
