by scribe | Dec 30, 2019 | current news, people, positions, ruminations, tournaments
Yesterday Mike Splane hosted his last chess party of 2019. Though somewhat lightly attended (only eight people this time) it gave Eric Steger and me a chance to show our games from the last round of the Kolty Chess Club championship, in which we tied for first. Also,...
by scribe | Dec 21, 2019 | chess clubs, current news, ruminations, tournaments
As you know from my last post, I tied with Eric Steger in the 2019 Kolty Chess Club Championship, both of us scoring 6-1. At the time I thought that it was very likely that Eric would win the tiebreaks, but I was mistaken. Wolfgang Behm, the tournament director, sent...
by scribe | Oct 13, 2019 | current news, PRO Chess League, ruminations
… But we don’t have to like it! The PRO (Professional Rapid Online) Chess League officially announced that its fourth season will start on January 6, and there have been some major changes. The big ones are: The league is contracting from 32 teams to 24. This is...
by scribe | May 20, 2019 | games, openings, people, ruminations
Yesterday I celebrated another anniversary, and a pretty big one this time: the thirtieth anniversary of my wedding! Kay has been my rudder and my guiding light for all this time. She claims to be pretty satisfied with me too, although I’m not sure how much to believe...
by scribe | May 15, 2019 | chess clubs, literature, off-topic, ruminations
Although I recently had a small reminder of the value of humility, today I’m going to soldier on in my immodest way and celebrate the first anniversary of one of the most exciting days of my life, the publication day of The Book of Why. Being a writer,...
by scribe | May 12, 2019 | chess clubs, ruminations
Last week I was talking with one of the chess parents at the Aptos Library Chess Club, and she asked me a really good question: “When is it okay to resign?” She has never been part of the chess world before, and she was genuinely curious: What is the...
