by scribe | Oct 7, 2011 | Chess Life, current news, literature
Earlier this week I reviewed the SmartChess app, which went up for sale on iTunes last week. There’s also a review of it in Chess Life this month, if you want another opinion (a generally positive one). I pointed out in my review that the value of SmartChess...
by scribe | Oct 1, 2011 | current news, games, literature
After writing only two blog posts in September (one of them not even about chess), I promise to pay a little bit more attention to my blog this month. First, let me start with a small announcement: Andres Hortillosa’s SmartChess app for the iPhone/iPad is now on...
by scribe | Jul 20, 2011 | current news, literature, openings
Did you know that July 20 is International Chess Day? If you’re wondering, the significance of July 20 is that it is the day, in 1924, when FIDE came into existence. It’s not entirely clear that this is a reason for celebration, but there you have it...
by scribe | Jun 4, 2011 | current news, literature, people
If any of you are interested in seeing chess on television, you might want to tune into the documentary “Bobby Fischer Versus The World,” which will be airing on HBO on Monday, at 9:00 Eastern time and Pacific time. I have not seen it — only the...
by scribe | May 27, 2011 | literature, people
This morning I went on another of my time-wasting Internet meanders and landed in another unlikely place. Courtesy of Google Books, I found myself looking at the 1901 volume of British Chess Magazine, scanned from the Harvard Library collection, featuring an enormous...
by scribe | May 23, 2011 | literature, off-topic
I’m going to go off-topic for just a second here to do a tiny bit of self-promotion. That’s permissible in a blog, isn’t it? My vast underground network has informed me that my first book, The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be, was recently named...
