by scribe | Sep 30, 2010 | chess clubs, literature, positions, ruminations
While the rest of the chess world is focused on the FIDE elections and on the World Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, and American chess is focused on the US Chess League, I’ve been enjoying a chess break. No study, no tournaments, no ChessLectures (with...
by scribe | Mar 22, 2010 | Chess Lecture, literature, off-topic, openings, ruminations
I’m going to take a deep breath and go off-topic again in this entry, with apologies to people who come here looking for chess coverage. As you know, I only write off-topic entries on rare occasions, such as the U.S. presidential election in 2008. This post is...
by scribe | Feb 17, 2010 | games, literature, people
Last week I received an autographed copy of Andres Hortillosa’s new book, Improve Your Chess At Any Age, which he generously mailed to me. Ever since then, I’ve been debating whether to post a review of it. I greatly admire what Andres has done and I also...
by scribe | Feb 8, 2010 | literature
Coincidentally, two books that I contributed to (in a very very small way) have either just appeared or are about to appear. The first of them is Improve Your Chess at Any Age by Andy Hortillosa, published by Everyman Chess, which is an elaboration of the...
by scribe | Sep 27, 2009 | literature, people
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been involved in a project that I couldn’t write about here, but I am now at liberty to talk about it. Daniel Naroditsky, the world under-12 champion in 2007 (whom I wrote about in this post from December 2007) has now,...
by scribe | Aug 19, 2009 | endings, games, literature, people, positions, tournaments
Back in April I posted an entry called “Chicken!” (part 1) that began telling the story of a game I played with a master named Rich Jackson in the 1987 North Carolina Championship. This particular tournament was one of the highlights of my chess career, as...
