by scribe | May 19, 2012 | 2012 world championship, games, literature, ruminations, translations
On a free day for the chess match, some musings about translation… If you ever want to think deeply about a language (even your own language, or perhaps I should say especially your own language), you should try translating something into it or out of it. The...
by scribe | Apr 18, 2012 | games, literature, positions, tournaments
I’m really not a big expert on chess history. However, at Mike Splane’s latest chess salon last weekend, I talked about my recent game from the Reno tournament in the Bird Variation (Blackburne Subvariation) of the Ruy Lopez. (That’s 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3...
by scribe | Apr 13, 2012 | current news, literature, people
What do you call it when your former student does something so insanely wonderful that you just want to tell the world, “That’s my student!”? And what do you call it when HER students do something so insanely wonderful that… etc.? I call it...
by scribe | Mar 29, 2012 | Chess Lecture, games, literature, openings
I was very excited to see today that Tim Harding, a regular columnist at ChessCafe, has written an article (March 14, 2012) on the Bryntse Gambit! For any readers of this blog who don’t know their “dana blogs chess” history, the Bryntse Gambit is a...
by scribe | Jan 17, 2012 | current news, literature, off-topic, ruminations
Yesterday Kay got an automated phone call from Fed Ex saying that we should expect a package before 10:30 am today, which required a signature. We had no idea what it was. “Are you expecting a package?” she asked me. Precisely at 10:26 the doorbell rang,...
by scribe | Nov 23, 2011 | current news, games, literature
Your game is featured on chessgames.com as the Game of the Day! Thanks to Matt Hayes for spotting this! (He’s the one who drew the circle in the screen capture, not me.) I’ve been wondering when, if ever, chessgames.com would get around to putting...
