by scribe | Jun 10, 2011 | games, positions
Today I’m going to write about yet another team chess game. This is one that I played last night, playing Black with Thadeus Frei against Cailen Melville and Gjon Feinstein. We were using new experimental rules. The time control was 7 minutes for both sides, and...
by scribe | May 21, 2011 | games, openings, positions, tournaments
Because George Michael said so! In my last tournament I had a disappointing finish, a draw in the last round against a class-A player named Roberto Aiello. In this game, as White, I experimented with a variation of the King’s Indian Defense that I have never...
by scribe | May 15, 2011 | chess clubs, positions, tournaments
Yesterday I directed my annual tournament at the Aptos Public Library. This year we had a surprisingly low turnout: 14 players in all, 8 in the 10-and-older section and 6 in the 9-and-younger. Part of the reason was that I was unlucky with the date. Several of the...
by scribe | May 10, 2011 | current news, endings, games, positions, tournaments
The quarterfinal matches in the World Championship Qualifier are now complete, and my description of the tournament as “May Madness” is now even more appropriate than ever. First, just as in March Madness, upsets were the order of the day. The winner in...
by scribe | Apr 24, 2011 | current news, people, positions, tournaments
The last round of the Reno Far West Open featured some great fighting chess, a nice change of pace from the drawfests that one often sees in the last round of big-money Swiss system tournaments. Both of the games on the top two boards were decisive. On board two,...
by scribe | Apr 24, 2011 | current news, positions, tournaments
After 5 rounds of the Reno Far West Open, the leaders are IMs Steven Zierk and Vladimir Mezentsev. Zierk had been in clear first place after beating Enrico Sevillano in round four to go 4-0. The game had a neat conclusion: White to move. As Steven explained to me,...
