by scribe | Jan 11, 2012 | Chess Life, people, ruminations
It’s got to be the guy who plays the most games, right? I think that there’s no question that the most active player in top-level international chess is Viktor Korchnoi. According to the following highly unofficial statistics that I found on this web page,...
by scribe | Nov 23, 2011 | chess clubs, Chess Lecture, ruminations
A few days ago I received the following comment on one of my ChessLectures from a longtime subscriber: I must agree with the previous commentators that Dana Mackenzie, though not being a terribly strong player, is a grandmaster in didactics. It shows that PLAYING...
by scribe | Nov 10, 2011 | current news, games, off-topic, ruminations, tournaments
I suspect that everyone reading this blog can figure out the following riddle: He’s been played with for centuries and lives the majority of his life one step at a time, often moving between darkness and light, and when he’s trapped, his life is over. This...
by scribe | Nov 7, 2011 | off-topic, people, ruminations
A few weeks ago I got a wonderful surprise in my e-mail. A reader named Edson José Cortiano, who lives in Brazil, sent me several chess cartoons that he has drawn, and he has given me permission to post them in my blog. I have to apologize that my blog is not ideally...
by scribe | Nov 3, 2011 | games, off-topic, openings, people, ruminations
One of my stranger quirks is that I have kept a diary for most of my life. My parents gave me my very first diary on Christmas in 1963, when I was five years old, but I didn’t stick with it for very long. They tried again, giving me a five-year diary when I was...
by scribe | Oct 25, 2011 | current news, off-topic, openings, ruminations
It’s Blog Stats time again! About a year ago I wrote a post called “Counting Down the Hits,” where I listed the top 15 posts from this blog in total page views. I also counted down seven “undeservedly neglected” posts, some of my...
