Decision Making

by | Jul 16, 2012 | chess clubs, games, people, positions

Yesterday, at Mike Splane’s latest chess party, WFM Uyanga Byambaa showed us one of her games from the Norcal Chess Invitational, played in March 2012.  There’s one position that I felt was super-instructive, although the conclusions I drew from it are a...

Ohio memories

by | Jul 1, 2012 | games, people, positions, tournaments

As some of you might have noticed, I took a short break from blogging and from chess in general for the last two weeks. My wife and I went back to North Carolina and Virginia to see (respectively) her family and my family. It was our first trip together to the east...

All Tactics All The Time

by | Jun 14, 2012 | games, people, positions

Yesterday I got together with Gjon Feinstein, Cailen Melville and Thadeus Frei for some skittles chess and analysis. Cailen showed us one of his recent games. As so often happens, we got completely sidetracked by analyzing variations that never happened. It usually...

Good teaching position

by | Jun 10, 2012 | chess clubs, people, positions, tournaments

I can never predict how well my lessons are going to go at the Aptos Library chess club. It seems to depend completely on which kids show up that day, what kind of mood they’re in, and other unknowable random factors. Last Tuesday was a really good day. We had...