by scribe | Apr 19, 2013 | current news, people, ruminations
This week TIME magazine published its annual list of “the 100 most influential people in the world,” and guess who was on it? Oh, I guess the title of this post gave it away. Magnus Carlsen made the list, and got a nice one-paragraph bio from Garry...
by scribe | Apr 17, 2013 | Chess Lecture, current news, games, off-topic, ruminations
I have now returned from my trip to the small town of Emory, Virginia, where I gave an invited lecture at Emory and Henry College, and then to Sewanee, Tennessee, where my father lives. He just celebrated his 80th birthday, and I wanted to see how he was doing....
by scribe | Apr 1, 2013 | current news, ruminations, tournaments
Ordinarily, if you asked me which I would enjoy more, playing in a chess tournament or staying at home and watching a chess tournament on the Internet, I would say, “Playing in a chess tournament.” It’s a complete no-brainer. I’d rather be a...
by scribe | Feb 14, 2013 | current news, off-topic, ruminations, tournaments
What is it about chess and movies? All of a sudden chess has become trendy. Last year we had “Brooklyn Castle.” And now, while that is still going around the indie movie circuit, here comes another chess movie, Computer Chess. All I know about this movie...
by scribe | Feb 9, 2013 | current news, off-topic, positions, ruminations
When people find out that I am both a mathematician (at least in a former life) and a chess player, they sometimes ask me if mathematics gives me an advantage in playing chess. The answer, alas, is emphatically no. There is a relation between math ability and chess...
by scribe | Jan 31, 2013 | current news, people, ruminations
To my surprise (and pleasure), two non-chess-playing friends e-mailed me a link to the same New York Times article. Nicholas Kristof, a regular op-ed columnist and former Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote a column today about Elizabeth Spiegel and her national champion...
