by scribe | Sep 8, 2009 | games, openings, positions, tournaments
Hello again!! Thanks to the miracle of modern technology I am writing my first blog post from midair — specifically from American Airlines flight 1861 from Dallas to San Jose. Another of the miracles of modern technology is that I just lost 15 minutes of work. I...
by scribe | Aug 19, 2009 | endings, games, literature, people, positions, tournaments
Back in April I posted an entry called “Chicken!” (part 1) that began telling the story of a game I played with a master named Rich Jackson in the 1987 North Carolina Championship. This particular tournament was one of the highlights of my chess career, as...
by | Jul 13, 2009 | chess clubs, games, positions
Yesterday I met a “new kid in town,” whose name is Pablo Pena. There are a couple of Pablo Penas in the U.S. Chess Federation database, but I suspect he is probably the one from Oregon who has a USCF rating of 2082. The occasion was the second Sunday...
by | Jul 12, 2009 | openings, positions
Way back last November I started a series of posts about the Bird Variation of the Ruy Lopez, which is my bread-and-butter defense to 1. e4. By now most of you have probably forgotten all about the previous posts, so here are the links in order: Bird by Bird: In this...
by | Jun 29, 2009 | chess clubs, Chess Lecture, games, openings, positions
Yesterday Jim Parker organized a blitz tournament at Round Table Pizza in Capitola. This is yet another idea for keeping the chess “scene” going in Santa Cruz now that the Borders Chess Club is no more, and I think it was a big success. We had eleven...
by | Jun 24, 2009 | chess clubs, Chess Lecture, positions
At the Aptos libary chess club yesterday I showed the children this position, from one of my ChessLectures (Learn from Your Fellow Amateurs, Episode VIII: Red Flags). I think that this is a great position to look at with a group of beginners, because it has so many of...
