Double your pleasure

by | Apr 30, 2008 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life, games, literature

… or double your misery, or whatever. I now simultaneously have an article in Chess Life (which arrived in the mail yesterday) and a lecture on ChessLecture. As longtime readers of this blog know, the Chess Life article has been in the works since last fall....

Hook and Ladder sighting

by | Mar 25, 2008 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life, games, tournaments

I was just playing over one of David Vigorito’s games in the recently concluded Foxwoods Open, and darned if he didn’t pull out the Hook and Ladder Trick! That makes him the second ChessLecturer I know of to make use of it. (The first one was Jesse Kraai,...

I’m back!

by | Mar 13, 2008 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life, off-topic, tournaments

Back from my four-day sojourn in Houston, that is. I went to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, in order to learn what’s new in our solar system and hopefully find some topics for articles. I did come back with a couple of ideas. I won’t discuss...

Delay of Chess Life article

by | Feb 6, 2008 | Chess Life

Back in November, I mentioned that I had submitted an article to Chess Life based on my lecture “Eight-Dimensional Chess,” which they accepted and tentatively scheduled for spring of 2008. Now, alas, I find out that I will have to wait a little bit...

New article for Chess Life?

by | Nov 17, 2007 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life

This week I submitted an article to Chess Life that was very closely based on my “Eight-Dimensional Chess” lecture on www.chesslecture.com. I’m glad to say that the editor liked it a lot. He said that the earliest slot for publication is in late...