by scribe | Mar 25, 2011 | literature, ruminations
When I was writing my most recent post, I learned a few things about Wikipedia. First of all, I was unaware that Wikipedia has a Featured Article every day, probably because I never actually enter Wikipedia through the “front door.” I always end up there...
by scribe | Mar 22, 2011 | current news, people, ruminations
Seriously, why? It makes life so much more miserable for those of us who don’t. If this were a baseball blog, I would be writing now about the Barry Bonds trial. But I don’t have to dive into that cesspit. The chess world now has a scandal of its own. As...
by scribe | Mar 12, 2011 | off-topic, ruminations
Yesterday I was heading back home from the animal shelter, where I volunteer on Friday mornings, and noticed a helicopter circling around in the sky. Make that two helicopters. It was hard not to notice them, because they were so loud that it sounded like a war zone...
by scribe | Feb 21, 2011 | literature, off-topic, openings, ruminations
Ok, I’ve been waiting to do this for a couple months. Today I finally checked out Google’s “Ngram Viewer,” which lets you see how the frequency of use of various words or phrases in the English language (and other languages) has changed over...
by scribe | Feb 18, 2011 | Chess Lecture, openings, ruminations
When I first started recording lectures for chesslecture.com in 2006, I used to check the popularity of my lectures almost religiously. I no longer do, because the list of the most popular lectures almost never changes. To understand why, imagine what it would be like...
by scribe | Feb 1, 2011 | current news, literature, people, ruminations
Today (February 1) is the official publication date of a book that will certainly be avidly read and discussed by many chess players and fans — Endgame, Frank Brady’s second biography of Bobby Fischer. As part of the publicity effort on behalf of the book,...
