by scribe | Dec 20, 2020 | current news, people, ruminations, tournaments
For all the people following my “50 Years of Chess” series, I’m going to take a short, two-week hiatus for the holidays. One reason for the break is that I’ve come up to 1990, which is going to be a challenge because my records for that year...
by scribe | Dec 1, 2020 | current news, literature, off-topic, people, ruminations
Taking a one-post break from my retrospective series to jot down my thoughts on “Queen’s Gambit,” the television series on Netflix. I know I’m way behind, because I like to take my television in small doses, so everyone else has already...
by scribe | Sep 30, 2020 | current news, off-topic, people, ruminations
To: World From: Chess players Where have we seen this before? Refuses to play by previously agreed-upon rules.Driven by a persecution complex.Disdainful toward other people (“weakies”).Intolerant toward certain minorities.Demands complete loyalty from...
by scribe | Aug 20, 2020 | current news, endings, off-topic, positions, ruminations
Boy, if it isn’t one catastrophe, it’s another. First there was the coronavirus. Then the protests in many U.S. cities (though, thankfully, not very much unrest in Santa Cruz, where I live). Now there are fires in the mountains north of Santa Cruz, set off...
by scribe | Jun 16, 2020 | current news, ruminations
I just heard from Mike Splane that there was a comment on my last post that did not display when he clicked on the link. Here is what the comment said, from Larry Smith: “A great post! I can only imagine how much time went into putting this together. Here are...
by scribe | May 31, 2020 | current news, off-topic, ruminations
Thanks to Cathy Perlmutter for the groovy face mask! There will be a short-lived pause (which you won’t even notice) in this blog as I de-chessify. The reason is that I’ve gotten entirely too much sucked into playing against Fritz on my computer. My wife...
