by scribe | Jun 1, 2008 | literature, people, ruminations, tournaments
A couple weeks ago I finished reading The Chess Artist by J.C. Hallman, which was an anniversary present from my wife. We were in a bookstore about a week before our anniversary, and she said, “Pick out any book you want, and I’ll buy it for you.” I...
by scribe | Apr 30, 2008 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life, games, literature
… or double your misery, or whatever. I now simultaneously have an article in Chess Life (which arrived in the mail yesterday) and a lecture on ChessLecture. As longtime readers of this blog know, the Chess Life article has been in the works since last fall....
by scribe | Apr 28, 2008 | literature, ruminations
Just a heads up to all of you who follow the comments on this blog: Andres Hortillosa’s second column is now up on Chessville.com. You can click here to go straight to it. Andres writes in detail about the Purdy system for avoiding blunders, which he has...
by scribe | Mar 29, 2008 | Chess Lecture, endings, games, literature, people, tournaments
A quick update between rounds… I won in both round three and round four, so I now have a score of 2-2 and feel as if I’m back in the tournament. When I told my wife last night about my nervousness with this funny time control, she said, “Why? It...
by scribe | Jan 30, 2008 | endings, literature
A few months ago I bought a copy of Silman’s Complete Endgame Course, and I’m finally starting to dig into it. I think I’m going to learn a heck of a lot from it. The only endgame book I have really studied before was a slim book by Averbakh called...
by scribe | Jan 26, 2008 | literature, people, ruminations, Uncategorized
So this afternoon I’m driving back home from the bookstore, and thinking about how there are so many books where the young hero outfoxes the older generation. You can start with Harry Potter and go through just about the whole Young Adult section of the...
