by scribe | Feb 20, 2009 | chess clubs, Chess Lecture, games, off-topic
I arrived in Oslo Monday afternoon, so I have now been here four full days. My first impression was that it looked absolutely like something out of a fairy tale. Oslo has been getting a lot of snow this winter — in fact, it has snowed every day since I arrived....
by scribe | Feb 9, 2009 | chess clubs, Chess Lecture, off-topic, openings, ruminations
I’ve been a little bit sporadic lately in my blog entries, and I owe you an explanation. My 18-year-old cat, Chutney, passed away yesterday. Chutney was always sort of a “background” cat in our household. For those of you who have heard meows during...
by scribe | Jan 20, 2009 | chess clubs, Chess Lecture, people
A couple weeks ago I got an exciting e-mail from Carina Jørgensen, a long-time reader of this blog. She received a commission for chess-related art from J.C. Hallman, author of The Chess Artist, and she has posted the final work on her website, CarlinArt. Longtime...
by scribe | Jan 13, 2009 | Chess Lecture, off-topic, positions
Hello! I’m back again from my trip to Washington, DC, for the math meeting. It was two weeks before Barack Obama’s inauguration, and the stores were already full of touristy souvenirs, so that one could pretend to have been present at this historic...
by scribe | Jan 2, 2009 | Chess Lecture, games, openings
It’s long past time for me to continue my series on the Bird (or, more properly, the Blackburne) Variation of the Ruy Lopez. International Master Mark Ginsburg finally gave me the motivation that I needed, by writing in his blog the following comment: For...
by scribe | Jan 1, 2009 | Chess Lecture, off-topic, openings, people, tournaments
Happy new year! On this first morning of 2009, I decided to take a walk around the blogs to see what the neighbors are up to. Michael (fpawn) Aigner writes about the Pan-Am Intercollegiate Championship, at which Stanford finished third. The Pan-Am should really have...
