by scribe | Sep 11, 2013 | chess clubs, games, positions
I don’t usually play against the kids in the Aptos Library Chess Club, because the games are rarely satisfying in any way. Basically I just take material and win, because most of the students are not on a level yet where they know about keeping their pieces...
by scribe | Sep 9, 2013 | endings, positions, tournaments
In the comments to my latest post there was some interesting discussion of the “lost art of the post-mortem.” However, I was fortunate enough this weekend to have a delayed postmortem of two of my games from the CalChess State Championship. In this case...
by scribe | Sep 3, 2013 | current news, endings, positions, ruminations, tournaments
In my last two posts I wrote about two of my “great escapes” in the 2013 CalChess Labor Day Championship. (The first was a game I won against Myagmarsuren after blundering or sacrificing the exchange; in the second I drewm against Rand after being 3 pawns...
by scribe | Sep 2, 2013 | current news, games, positions, tournaments
The 2013 CalChess State Championship had one recurring theme for me — amazing escapes. In round 1 I lost (well, sacrificed) a pawn and managed to draw. In round 2, as I showed in my last entry, I was down an exchange for a pawn and still managed to win. Round 3...
by scribe | Sep 1, 2013 | current news, positions, tournaments
It seems as if I’ve spent the whole last month writing about the World Cup. But now September is here, and I have a tournament of my own to write about — the CalChess Labor Day Championships. I’m playing in the expert section, and rather amusingly...
by scribe | Aug 21, 2013 | chess clubs, current news, games, positions, tournaments
As you can see from the photograph, I am not the only creature in my household who has been following the World Cup with fascination! Ginger Snap is one of our temporary visitors, a foster kitten whom we are taking care of until she is old enough for someone to adopt...
