by scribe | Apr 21, 2008 | Chess Lecture, games, positions
I just finished watching Jesse Kraai’s second lecture on one of my games from Tucson, the game with Jacob Berger that I wrote about here. I found this one slightly less satisfying than the first, but it’s no fault of Jesse’s. The way I played the...
by scribe | Apr 14, 2008 | Chess Lecture, endings, games
For any of you who are subscribers to ChessLecture, Jesse Kraai’s analysis of my game with John Bick is now online. All I can say is, it’s fascinating. I am blown away by how different his understanding of several positions was from mine. You would think...
by scribe | Apr 8, 2008 | Chess Lecture, endings, games, openings, tournaments
For ChessLecture fans, I have some good news, or at least interesting news. As I mentioned earlier, GM Jesse Kraai — the winner of the U.S. Championship Qualifier — offered to take a look at my games from this tournament and pick one as the topic for one...
by scribe | Mar 29, 2008 | Chess Lecture, endings, games, literature, people, tournaments
A quick update between rounds… I won in both round three and round four, so I now have a score of 2-2 and feel as if I’m back in the tournament. When I told my wife last night about my nervousness with this funny time control, she said, “Why? It...
by scribe | Mar 25, 2008 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life, games, tournaments
I was just playing over one of David Vigorito’s games in the recently concluded Foxwoods Open, and darned if he didn’t pull out the Hook and Ladder Trick! That makes him the second ChessLecturer I know of to make use of it. (The first one was Jesse Kraai,...
by scribe | Mar 24, 2008 | Chess Lecture, openings, tournaments, US Chess League
Four more days until the first-ever U.S. Championship Qualifier! This morning I checked out the advance entries (as of last Wednesday). There are 87 people on the list, plus two possibles. Surprisingly, there are only 7 grandmasters entered, and 12 international...
