by scribe | Mar 12, 2014 | current news, literature
I’d like to send congratulations to two Bay Area players who scored impressive recent accomplishments. First, Daniel Naroditsky was recently named the winner of the 2014 Samford Fellowship, which is more than just a scholarship — it’s a living wage...
by scribe | Feb 27, 2014 | current news, off-topic, tournaments
Last night the new season of Survivor premiered, and once again we have a contestant claiming to be a chess player. Some of you might remember a guy named Marty a few years back who claimed to be a grandmaster. Then I went and checked and there are no grandmasters...
by scribe | Feb 19, 2014 | Chess Lecture, current news, off-topic
I’ve been told that the spam coming from my account started up again, and so my Internet service provider has once again been forced to block comments on my blog. The blog does appear to be the source of the problem, because the spam stops when they put up the...
by scribe | Feb 18, 2014 | current news, tournaments
President’s Day weekend can only mean one thing in U.S. chess — it’s time for the U.S. Amateur Team championship! I didn’t play this year, but I went to the tournament site on Sunday afternoon to spectate. It was another great success for...
by scribe | Feb 15, 2014 | current news, off-topic, Uncategorized
There was a period of about 24 hours when comments were disabled on my blog. What happened is that somebody figured out a way to send out spam that appeared to be from my blog. To get to the root of the problem the comments had to be disabled for a while. The problem...
by scribe | Feb 5, 2014 | current news, games, people
… But some speed chess games stick with you more than others. I just found out via Facebook that there’s a video on YouTube of a 5-minute game that Vinay Bhat played against Magnus Carlsen during the latter’s visit to the Bay Area on January 14....
