by scribe | Feb 16, 2008 | openings, people, ruminations
The Russian-language chess website www.chesspro.ru has a really cool interview with David Bronstein, the former world championship candidate who died in December 2006. Mostly Bronstein talks about the differences between human and computer chessplayers. The...
by scribe | Jan 26, 2008 | literature, people, ruminations, Uncategorized
So this afternoon I’m driving back home from the bookstore, and thinking about how there are so many books where the young hero outfoxes the older generation. You can start with Harry Potter and go through just about the whole Young Adult section of the...
by scribe | Jan 19, 2008 | people, ruminations
What can I say about Bobby Fischer that hasn’t been said a thousand times? Well, I can start by correcting a mistake that is made in the wire service articles on his death and even on the USCF website: Bobby Fischer was not the first American world chess...
by scribe | Jan 18, 2008 | people, positions, ruminations
It’s huge news, but one doesn’t know whether to feel happy or sad. Mostly it’s just spooky, because Carina just finished her stunning portrait of Bobby Fischer this week, and Dribbling mentioned in his comment that he looks like an angel in that...
by scribe | Jan 15, 2008 | Chess Lecture, games, ruminations
Last week ChessLecture announced my new series, “Learn from Your Fellow Amateurs,” in which I will pick one listener-submitted game each month and lecture about it. So far I’ve gotten twelve submissions, which I think is a pretty good number —...
