by | Jun 26, 2009 | Chess Lecture, people, ruminations
Last weekend David Vigorito, aka “Fluffy,” one of my co-conspirators at ChessLecture, got married. Mark Ginsburg has pictures in his blog, and he mentions several prominent New England chess players who were at the ceremony. I wonder if chess sets were...
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...
by | Jun 23, 2009 | Chess Lecture, ruminations
Matt sent me a comment today to let me know that even if I don’t always get comments on my posts to this blog, I should rest assured that people are still reading it. Thanks, Matt! Blogs are a whole lot more fun than Web pages, because of the feedback from...
by | Jun 19, 2009 | Chess Lecture, games, openings
Here are two e-mails that arrived the same day: Bughousemaster has made the following comment on your video: Nuke the Sicilian! How to Sac Your Queen on Move Six and Win. ********************* Why is this lecture in the 2400+ section??? I don’t see how a 2400...
by | Jun 11, 2009 | Chess Lecture, games, people
As I mentioned in my recent post called “Aloha!”, ChessLecture has recently added a very distinguished teacher to its team: grandmaster Roman Dzindzichashvili. If any of you have thought of subscribing to ChessLecture but weren’t really sure whether...
by | Jun 9, 2009 | Chess Lecture, off-topic
The last week has been a tough one for me, as we had to say goodbye to another of our cats. Maikai, who died on Saturday, was always my favorite of our three cats. Maikai means “beautiful” in Hawaiian, and this picture will give you an idea why we called...
