by | Jun 17, 2009 | chess clubs, positions, tournaments
Every Tuesday I run a chess club for kids at the Aptos Public Library. Yesterday we had seven kids, whose names are (possibly with different spellings) Colin, Marius, Michael, Jesslyn, Mo, Coco, and Milo. That’s three girls out of seven — not bad! One of...
by | May 30, 2009 | games, positions, tournaments
I knew that it was a gamble playing in the Cabrillo Quads. First of all, I hate sudden-death time controls, and game/60 is a particularly nasty one. Second, I had a cold and felt as if my thinking was a little bit foggy. And third, I had just spent a week in Hawaii...
by | May 9, 2009 | chess clubs, games, positions, tournaments
While most serious chess fans are following the U.S. Championship, which is currently taking place in St. Louis, today I had only one tournament on my mind: the annual Aptos Public Library tournament. The library is where I run my weekly chess club for kids, and I...
by scribe | Apr 22, 2009 | endings, games, positions, tournaments
After my last post there was a little discussion about why my annotations were so good. Well, just to show that I still have a long way to go as an annotator, I will show you my last-round game from Reno, where I evaluated the position completely wrong both when I was...
by scribe | Apr 19, 2009 | games, positions
Today I’d like to share my most mind-bendingly complicated position from the Far West Open last weekend. To set the stage, it’s round 5, I have a score of 2-2 and I’m playing a class-A player named Solomon Beilin. I’m going to show you three...
by scribe | Apr 14, 2009 | Chess Life, people, positions, tournaments
Although the Reno tournament is over, you’ll probably see at least two or three more blog posts on it, as I work through my games from the tournament. But for now, let’s skip the heavy-duty analysis and talk about a few odds and ends from the trip. The GM...
