by scribe | Jul 21, 2014 | current news, endings, games, positions
At yesterday’s chess party at Mike Splane’s house, Bryon Doyle showed one of his two miraculous wins from the recent Sacramento Championship, where he tied for first place with his girlfriend Uyanga Byambaa. (Uyanga was also at the party and showed one of...
by scribe | Jul 5, 2014 | current news, endings, positions, tournaments
In my first 18 years of living in California, I somehow never played a single chess game in Sacramento, the state capital. There are a few reasons. First, it’s a three-hour drive. I can’t commute between home and the tournament, as I can if the tournament...
by scribe | Jun 30, 2014 | games, people, positions
Last week Gjon Feinstein asked me, “Can we go over a couple of my games on your computer?” This request was a surprise to me. He is a chess teacher, so he knows full well that computer analysis can be fool’s gold. I don’t think he even owns a...
by scribe | May 22, 2014 | current news, positions
Thanks to Mike Splane for pointing this one out! On Tuesday Gata Kamsky won the United States Championship, in a pair of 25-minute playoff games. Here is the position in the decisive game, Kamsky playing White against Varuzhan Akobian: FEN:...
by scribe | May 12, 2014 | games, openings, positions
Yesterday I played a blitz game against Gjon Feinstein that featured not one but two Légal Mates! One of them was the standard one, the other was a modified version that I had n0t seen before. Both of them remained only in the annotations — they didn’t...
by scribe | Apr 23, 2014 | Chess Lecture, endings, games, positions, tournaments
Over on my Facebook page, Damian Nash asked if I had posted any of my games from Reno online. So today I’ll show you my hardest-fought and in some ways most miraculous game from last weekend’s tournaments. I think it’s too long and too messy a game...
