by scribe | Mar 15, 2013 | current news, people, tournaments
In the first round of the Candidates’ Tournament in London, all four games were drawn. I watched the last hour of the first round on ChessTV, which is broadcasting the games live in Russian with commentary from our friend GM Sergey Shipov and GM Genna Sosonko....
by scribe | Mar 12, 2013 | Crestbook, current news, people, tournaments
If you’re interested in world championship chess, the place to be for the rest of the month is London, where the 2013 World Championship Candidates tournament will be held from March 15 to April 1 (with tiebreaks, which I devoutly hope will not be necessary,...
by scribe | Feb 19, 2013 | chess clubs, current news, tournaments
First, an apology. I did not play in the U.S. Amateur Team West tournament this year, so I can’t give you an in-person report. Why, you ask, didn’t my team from last year, “Forfeit by Disconnection,” defend its title? Well, the main reason was...
by scribe | Feb 14, 2013 | current news, off-topic, ruminations, tournaments
What is it about chess and movies? All of a sudden chess has become trendy. Last year we had “Brooklyn Castle.” And now, while that is still going around the indie movie circuit, here comes another chess movie, Computer Chess. All I know about this movie...
by scribe | Feb 11, 2013 | current news, endings, games, tournaments
Yesterday. at Mike Splane’s latest chess party, Uyanga Byambaa showed an endgame that could have come straight out of The Walking Dead. But actually the whole game was very interesting, not just the endgame. She told us, “This is the toughest game...
by scribe | Feb 9, 2013 | current news, off-topic, positions, ruminations
When people find out that I am both a mathematician (at least in a former life) and a chess player, they sometimes ask me if mathematics gives me an advantage in playing chess. The answer, alas, is emphatically no. There is a relation between math ability and chess...
