by scribe | Mar 5, 2009 | chess clubs, Chess Life, tournaments
This weekend a new chess event, the Western Chess Classic, will be held in the Bay Area. This is really exciting, because the Northern California chess schedule has been pretty sparse in recent years. The best northern California tournament, in fact, isn’t held...
by scribe | Nov 17, 2008 | Chess Life, games, openings, people
I promise I will continue my series on the Bird Variation of the Ruy Lopez soon, but first I want to tell you about the Theoretical Novelty (TN) I played last night without realizing it! I met with my friend Gjon Feinstein to play some speed chess last night. Gjon is...
by scribe | Nov 11, 2008 | chess clubs, Chess Life, tournaments
Last weekend my wife, who is a quilter, went to a weekend quilting retreat at Asilomar, a conference center/resort on the Monterey Peninsula about an hour’s drive south of Santa Cruz. It’s one of the most scenic spots you can imagine, with lots of ocean...
by scribe | Nov 2, 2008 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life, games, openings
One of the questions I get asked fairly often at chess tournaments is: “Have you had any more chances to play that queen sacrifice variation?” In case there’s anyone reading this who doesn’t know the story, see my Chess Life article from...
by scribe | Sep 19, 2008 | Chess Life, literature, people, tournaments
A couple nights ago I was browsing one of the Russian chess sites, www.64.ru, and came across an interesting article by Anatoly Karpov about the world championship match that never happened: Karpov vs. Fischer. The link is here if you want to test your Russian, but...
by scribe | Sep 15, 2008 | chess clubs, Chess Lecture, Chess Life, games, people
Every now and then I like to use this blog to take you “behind the scenes” and tell you some things that were left out of my ChessLectures. Last Friday’s lecture on Double Queen Sacs, or the “Henry VIII theme” (in honor of Henry VIII,...
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