by scribe | May 26, 2015 | Chess Lecture, endings, openings, people, ruminations
Yesterday I got a terrific comment on a very old post, one that also happens to be a favorite of mine: Jerry Hanken on Reshevsky vs. Fischer (2010). That was a post about the aborted Reshevsky-Fischer match from 1961 and how it fell apart, and it ended with a...
by scribe | Apr 6, 2015 | Chess Lecture, current news, people, tournaments
I just got home from the Larry Evans Memorial in Reno, and there’s lots of news to pass along. First, the winner of the tournament was … drum roll … Alexander Ivanov. As you might recall, he was leading after day two with a 4-0 score, and he coasted...
by scribe | Feb 28, 2015 | Chess Lecture, games, openings
My last post on the French Defense, a few days ago, attracted more comments than any post I’ve written for at least a couple years. So let’s continue the conversation. One of the commenters (Brian Wall, I’m looking at you) asked, “What...
by scribe | Dec 30, 2014 | Chess Lecture, games, openings
Today ChessLecture posted my lecture on my game with Sergei Kudrin from the October Western States Open. I’ve blogged about the game here before, but I didn’t post the complete game score because I wanted ChessLecture to release it first. Now that the...
by scribe | Dec 26, 2014 | Chess Lecture, ruminations
I don’t mean to alarm you or anything, because my chess life isn’t over. I am planning to play next weekend, in fact. However, I have definitely played my last rated game of 2014, and that inspired me to go to my member page at uschess.org to see how I did...
by scribe | Dec 10, 2014 | Chess Lecture, current news, games, tournaments
Thanks to Gjon Feinstein and Mike Splane for telling me that GM Melikset Khachiyan has posted a lecture on chess.com about the game that we played in the recent Reno tournament. If you’re a member of chess.com (and you should be, because membership is free), go...
