by scribe | Oct 18, 2008 | games, people, tournaments
While Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik are battling it out for world supremacy in chess, 245 chess players have come to Reno with a more modest goal — supremacy in the Western U.S. This is a very modest turnout by the usual standards of the Western States...
by scribe | Oct 13, 2008 | people, tournaments
What an exciting month for chess! Of course, tomorrow we will see the first game of the world championship match, Kramnik versus Anand. From everything I’ve read it should be a pretty even match, but with a vivid contrast in styles. Because it’s a short...
by scribe | Sep 25, 2008 | games, openings, tournaments
Okay, as I promised three months ago, I am finally going to start revealing some of Dana’s Secret Chess Files! You will get to see some of my home-brewed openings. Before we start, you might want to re-read Dana’s Opening Philosophy. The first line I want...
by scribe | Sep 19, 2008 | Chess Life, literature, people, tournaments
A couple nights ago I was browsing one of the Russian chess sites, www.64.ru, and came across an interesting article by Anatoly Karpov about the world championship match that never happened: Karpov vs. Fischer. The link is here if you want to test your Russian, but...
by scribe | Sep 5, 2008 | people, ruminations, tournaments
At last Weekend’s Labor Day Chess Classic in San Francisco, I had a little time to sit down and interview Richard Koepcke, the organizer of the tournament. I think that organizers and TDs are the unsung heroes of the chess world. They’re the people who...
by scribe | Sep 2, 2008 | games, positions, tournaments
Here is the finish of one of my better games from this weekend’s CalChess Labor Day Championship. It’s round four, and I’m playing the White pieces against yet another teen-age Class A hotshot, whose name is Sreekar Jasthi. (White to move.) As you...
