by scribe | Jan 1, 2011 | Chess Lecture, current news, people, tournaments
The new year is barely nine hours old, so what could I possibly write about? Well, my first e-mail of the New Year came at 1:11 AM on 1/1/11. It was a comment from a listener named “plutarco” on one of my ChessLectures, “The Golden Rule of...
by scribe | Dec 21, 2010 | current news, endings, people
They just keep on coming! Young chess talents in the San Francisco Bay area, that is. Now Samuel Sevian has become the youngest national master in U.S. history, beating by 11 days the record set by Nicholas Nip (also from the SF Bay area). When Nip set the record a...
by scribe | Nov 14, 2010 | current news, people
One northern California chess player has been conspicuously missing in action this year: Michael Aigner. He has continued to be active in chess via his blog, which was the best place on the Internet to keep track of the progress of Steven Zierk towards his world...
by scribe | Nov 3, 2010 | current news, people, tournaments
Yesterday the San Jose Mercury News, which is Steven Zierk’s home-town newspaper (he lives in Los Gatos, a suburb of San Jose) published a very extensive article about his triumph in the world under-18 chess championship. I urge you all to read it! I think one...
by scribe | Oct 30, 2010 | current news, endings, games, people
I think a lot of people, even in the U.S., may not have heard of Steven Zierk before this week. He made some waves when he upset GM Loek Van Wely last year in Reno, and he played on the San Francisco Mechanics team in the U.S. Chess League for the last couple of...
by scribe | Oct 28, 2010 | current news, US Chess League
Everyone is delirious in San Francisco this morning after the San Francisco Giants took the first game of the (baseball) World Series over the Texas Rangers, 11-7. Everyone, that is, except for the chess players. Last night the San Francisco Mechanics lost to the...
