by scribe | Dec 14, 2009 | off-topic, ruminations, tournaments
It’s been a few days since my last blog post, so I sat down today and decided to write an update. But what should I write about? I haven’t played a game in two weeks. I haven’t studied any chess games in the past week, because I was too busy...
by scribe | Aug 25, 2009 | ruminations
Time for another reader poll! You guys helped me decide to play in the U.S. Senior Open instead of the U.S. Open, and now maybe you can help me make another decision. While I was researching the rules about National Master titles for an earlier post, I came upon a...
by scribe | Aug 5, 2009 | ruminations, tournaments
Last weekend, as I mentioned in a previous post, I played in the Silicon Valley Challenge, a tournament that offered free entry to National Masters. This posed an interesting question: Would they give me a free entry, even though my current rating is 2102? The minimum...
by | Jun 26, 2009 | Chess Lecture, people, ruminations
Last weekend David Vigorito, aka “Fluffy,” one of my co-conspirators at ChessLecture, got married. Mark Ginsburg has pictures in his blog, and he mentions several prominent New England chess players who were at the ceremony. I wonder if chess sets were...
by | Jun 23, 2009 | Chess Lecture, ruminations
Matt sent me a comment today to let me know that even if I don’t always get comments on my posts to this blog, I should rest assured that people are still reading it. Thanks, Matt! Blogs are a whole lot more fun than Web pages, because of the feedback from...
by | May 17, 2009 | off-topic, ruminations, tournaments
I have two exciting things to write about today! First, the 2009 U.S. championship concluded in dramatic style. Yesterday, in round eight, Robert Hess continued his amazing run by defeating defending champion Yury Shulman. Meanwhile, Hikaru Nakamura stomped on Michael...
