by scribe | Feb 4, 2011 | current news, off-topic
Goin’ off-topic again… As most of you know, this was the week of the Groundhog Day Storm, or the Blizzard of 2011, or whatever you want to call it. On Tuesday morning the newspaper headline read: “Aren’t You Glad You Live in California?”...
by scribe | Feb 1, 2011 | current news, literature, people, ruminations
Today (February 1) is the official publication date of a book that will certainly be avidly read and discussed by many chess players and fans — Endgame, Frank Brady’s second biography of Bobby Fischer. As part of the publicity effort on behalf of the book,...
by scribe | Jan 18, 2011 | chess clubs, current news, people
Next Tuesday, January 25, world under-18 champion Steven Zierk is coming to speak at the Aptos Library Chess Club! I am hoping that he will play a simultaneous exhibition and then speak about his experiences at the world championships in Greece last fall. This will be...
by scribe | Jan 17, 2011 | current news, literature, off-topic
Today I am going to depart from my usual ideological purity and succumb to the lure of crass commercialism. Yes, I want to use this posting to promote my new book, What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences (Vol. 8). I’m afraid that you won’t...
by scribe | Jan 11, 2011 | current news, off-topic, tournaments, US Chess League
Here’s my joke for the day. Q: What did Gilligan say when the other castaways fought over places on the raft? A: “Why can’t we all just get a log?” Somehow I think this is relevant to the current world of politics — i.e., if we...
by scribe | Jan 2, 2011 | current news, positions, tournaments
The Bay Area Chess New Year Open was a very strange tournament, but it worked out pretty well for me. As usual, it had two schedules, a 2-day and 3-day schedule. The 3-day schedule, which I played in, had nine players (in the open section), of whom only one was rated...
