by scribe | Oct 31, 2009 | Chess Lecture, games, positions, tournaments
And now, back to chess. However, the blog stats make me wonder whether I should post off topic more often. My blog got more than 200 hits on the day that my post about Jorge Cham’s detention went up — even though I had no information to offer other than...
by scribe | Oct 28, 2009 | endings, positions, tournaments
I’m going to show you some of the highlights from my Reno tournament, starting with Round 3. I came into this round with a score of ½-1½ and was paired against Walter Shipman. I admire his play a lot — very solid and tough to beat. He plays what Jesse...
by scribe | Oct 18, 2009 | Chess Lecture, people, positions, tournaments, US Chess League
My blog has been a little bit quiet for the last few days. Don’t worry, nothing bad has been happening, I’ve just been busy. However, there has been plenty of news in the chess world. As reported on Chess Life Online and lots of other places, Jerry Hanken,...
by scribe | Oct 4, 2009 | games, positions, tournaments
This weekend I played in the curiously named Adults Open in San Jose, the first NC-17 rated chess tournament. No, there was no hanky-panky going on. It’s just that tournament director Salman Azhar thought that some grownups might be more interested in a weekend...
by scribe | Sep 30, 2009 | games, openings, positions, US Chess League
Today I’m going to discuss a game that I already wrote about in Blogging from 32,000 Feet, but this time we’ll look at it from the viewpoint of my opponent! Tim Rogalski e-mailed me and said that he had written up some annotations for our game that he is...
by scribe | Sep 26, 2009 | Chess Lecture, games, people, positions, tournaments
In one of my very first posts in this blog, I profiled a Bay Area youngster named Erik Kislik, who at that time was an expert with a rating about the same as mine (2115). I described him as being an incipient chess hobo — a person who cares only about chess, who...
