by scribe | Nov 2, 2014 | Chess Lecture, games, people, positions
A couple posts ago, I said I wouldn’t write any more about my game with Sergei Kudrin because I was planning to record a ChessLecture on it, and I didn’t want to post spoilers to my own lecture. However, an interesting point came up near the end that I...
by scribe | Oct 19, 2014 | Chess Lecture, current news, positions, tournaments
What a finish to the Western States Open! In the last round, I almost… Beat my first grandmaster (a bucket list item) Tied for first in an open tournament, for the first time in 20 years Scored another historic victory with the Bryntse Gambit Got my rating back...
by scribe | Sep 4, 2014 | Chess Lecture, games, positions, tournaments
Usually when I write about games I have recently played, I show you most or all of the game and have several diagrams along the way. This time I’m going to do something different. I played six games in my tournament from last weekend, and I’m going to show...
by scribe | Sep 1, 2014 | Chess Lecture, current news, people, tournaments
This weekend I played in the CalChess (i.e., northern California) state championship, which was well organized and well attended. We had in the neighborhood of 250 to 260 players, which means among other things that we trounced southern California, which had...
by scribe | May 13, 2014 | Chess Lecture, current news, openings, people, tournaments
Over the weekend I spent a lot of time studying a fascinating game from the first round of the U.S. Women’s Championship, won by a 13-year-old girl from the Bay Area, Ashritha Eswaran. Eswaran is the lowest-rated player in the tournament and a relative newbie to...
by scribe | Apr 23, 2014 | Chess Lecture, endings, games, positions, tournaments
Over on my Facebook page, Damian Nash asked if I had posted any of my games from Reno online. So today I’ll show you my hardest-fought and in some ways most miraculous game from last weekend’s tournaments. I think it’s too long and too messy a game...
