by scribe | Apr 22, 2013 | current news, off-topic
I know most of my readers don’t come here for cute kitten videos … but you get them anyway! At least this one has some chess involved (as you’ll see beginning about 1:25 in the video). You can also watch it on YouTube if you prefer. The gray kitten...
by scribe | Apr 19, 2013 | current news, people, ruminations
This week TIME magazine published its annual list of “the 100 most influential people in the world,” and guess who was on it? Oh, I guess the title of this post gave it away. Magnus Carlsen made the list, and got a nice one-paragraph bio from Garry...
by scribe | Apr 18, 2013 | current news, off-topic, people, tournaments
On my recent trip, I was surprised when a friend asked me if I had heard of Webster University and their chess coach, a woman from “somewhere in Eastern Europe.” In fact, I had just read the Chess Life article about the Pan-Am Intercollegiate tournament...
by scribe | Apr 17, 2013 | Chess Lecture, current news, games, off-topic, ruminations
I have now returned from my trip to the small town of Emory, Virginia, where I gave an invited lecture at Emory and Henry College, and then to Sewanee, Tennessee, where my father lives. He just celebrated his 80th birthday, and I wanted to see how he was doing....
by scribe | Apr 7, 2013 | current news, endings, positions
A month ago I wrote a post called Rock, Paper, Scissors, where I posed the following problem: Can you come up with three half-positions (that is, positions for one player only, written in English Descriptive Notation), called “Rock,” “Paper,”...
by scribe | Apr 1, 2013 | current news, ruminations, tournaments
Ordinarily, if you asked me which I would enjoy more, playing in a chess tournament or staying at home and watching a chess tournament on the Internet, I would say, “Playing in a chess tournament.” It’s a complete no-brainer. I’d rather be a...
