by scribe | Mar 16, 2008 | Chess Lecture, games, positions
A lot of you know already that I give regular lectures at www.chesslecture.com, a subscription website with some of the best chess instruction on the Web! But I think this blog is getting more and more readers who aren’t subscribers to ChessLecture, and so for...
by scribe | Mar 13, 2008 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life, off-topic, tournaments
Back from my four-day sojourn in Houston, that is. I went to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, in order to learn what’s new in our solar system and hopefully find some topics for articles. I did come back with a couple of ideas. I won’t discuss...
by scribe | Feb 28, 2008 | Chess Lecture, games, positions, tournaments
If I ever write that book of amateur games told in “story” fashion (or “melodramatic,” a word some of our readers took issue with), here is one that I will have to include. This was the game between Dan Burkhard (White) and Jeff Mallett (Black)...
by scribe | Feb 27, 2008 | Chess Lecture, endings, people, tournaments
This is just an entry devoted to odds and ends of various kinds. First of all, I just wanted to let everybody know that I’ve gotten over my blunder of last Sunday, which I wrote about in my post “Back to Square One.” I now realize it was not the...
by scribe | Feb 15, 2008 | Chess Lecture, games, openings, people, positions
In February, there is no question that the center of the chess universe is Russia. There are two huge events, back to back: the Moscow Open, with a prize fund of 5 million rubles ($200,000), and the Aeroflot Open. The Moscow Open “A” tournament, which...
by scribe | Jan 18, 2008 | chess clubs, Chess Lecture, games, people, positions
After playing well in chess club my last two times, I guess I was due for an off night. I was in the top quad with Juande Perea and Dan Burkhard (who are both playing in the Santa Cruz Cup) and Steve Sullivan. First round was a lifeless draw as Black against Juande....
