by scribe | Oct 7, 2013 | Chess Lecture, current news, people, tournaments
After a brief sojourn into the world of mathematics, “dana blogs chess” now returns to the subject it’s supposed to be about! Today I have two news items that came in the e-mail within the past week. 1) Jesse Kraai has finished his Great American...
by scribe | Sep 5, 2013 | Chess Lecture, current news, off-topic
After many years of not changing very much, ChessLecture.com is really starting to try some new ideas this year, and I think it’s a great thing. They are releasing many of the older series of lectures as DVD’s, and posting some of the lectures on the new...
by scribe | Sep 3, 2013 | current news, endings, positions, ruminations, tournaments
In my last two posts I wrote about two of my “great escapes” in the 2013 CalChess Labor Day Championship. (The first was a game I won against Myagmarsuren after blundering or sacrificing the exchange; in the second I drewm against Rand after being 3 pawns...
by scribe | Sep 2, 2013 | current news, games, positions, tournaments
The 2013 CalChess State Championship had one recurring theme for me — amazing escapes. In round 1 I lost (well, sacrificed) a pawn and managed to draw. In round 2, as I showed in my last entry, I was down an exchange for a pawn and still managed to win. Round 3...
by scribe | Sep 1, 2013 | current news, positions, tournaments
It seems as if I’ve spent the whole last month writing about the World Cup. But now September is here, and I have a tournament of my own to write about — the CalChess Labor Day Championships. I’m playing in the expert section, and rather amusingly...
by scribe | Aug 28, 2013 | current news, tournaments
The semifinal round of the World Cup had a somewhat surreal aspect to it. Looking at the games, it seems clear that the players were exhausted. The first two “classical” games were drawn in 14 and 16 moves respectively, as the players took a break from the...
