by scribe | Nov 10, 2014 | off-topic, positions, ruminations
You can have your Stockfish, your Rybka, your Houdini. I’ve got...
by scribe | Oct 9, 2014 | off-topic, people, ruminations
I just discovered that Shredder lets you see your “rating progress,” just as the USCF does. I don’t know which to be more ashamed of… the fact that I have played more than 200 games against Shredder (that’s a lot of time-wasting, and...
by scribe | Sep 27, 2014 | off-topic
Today I discovered a fun new computer game — new to me, that is — called Fantastic Contraption 2. I had a great time with it, because it allows more creativity and originality than any other computer game I’ve played (besides chess, of course!). Most...
by scribe | Sep 18, 2014 | games, off-topic, people, positions
Today I finally had a chance to dig around in the hidden areas of my blog… hidden even to me… and I figured out how to restore the comments. Not only the feature for posting new comments, but also the archive of all the old comments. Hooray! Feel free to...
by scribe | Aug 29, 2014 | off-topic, ruminations, tournaments
Once again, I’m having problems with the Comment function on my blog. It seems to be a different problem this time from the ones earlier this year, but equally unsatisfactory. My blog is not accepting new comments, and all the old ones have disappeared as well....
by scribe | Aug 11, 2014 | current news, off-topic, ruminations, tournaments
Bobby Fischer can breathe a sigh of relief. If only he were still breathing, that is. Sam Shankland isn’t going to beat his record of 19 consecutive wins, because Sam drew in round nine of the Olympiad. Still a good result for Sam — a draw as Black against...
