by scribe | Sep 2, 2008 | games, positions, tournaments
Here is the finish of one of my better games from this weekend’s CalChess Labor Day Championship. It’s round four, and I’m playing the White pieces against yet another teen-age Class A hotshot, whose name is Sreekar Jasthi. (White to move.) As you...
by scribe | Aug 31, 2008 | games, positions, tournaments
At the CalChess Labor Day Tournament, they really should rename the Expert section. They should call it the “Worn-Out Old Experts and Teen-Age Hotshot Class-A Kids” section. That’s the way it was two years ago, when I played in the Expert section...
by scribe | Jul 20, 2008 | Chess Lecture, games, people, positions
Last night I invited a few of my chess friends over for an evening devoted to chess. Borrowing a term from a century ago, one could perhaps call it a “chess salon.” The evening’s first entertainment was a recent Chess Lecture (the one by Eugene...
by scribe | Jul 15, 2008 | endings, games, positions, tournaments
It might not have the resonance of Batman versus the Joker, but the rivalry of Bishops versus Knights is one of the eternal dramas or morality plays of chess. Sometimes the straight-arrow bishop triumphs. Other times it’s the crooked, shifty knight....
by scribe | Jul 10, 2008 | chess clubs, games, positions
Something about chess club is good for prying words loose from the depths of my memory. A few months ago I wrote about how a night of chess helped me remember the word “oxymoron.” Tonight’s word is somewhat simpler, but it’s a beautiful one:...
by scribe | Jun 3, 2008 | positions, tournaments
The only contest in the world that has lasted longer than Barack Obama vs. Hillary Clinton is the Santa Cruz Cup chess tournament. We got started back in October and we’re still going — but we are now, I think, just one round short of completion. On Sunday...
