by scribe | May 28, 2013 | current news, off-topic, people, tournaments
I did not go to the concluding day of the Best of the West tournament, because Linnea got a ride with her parents, but I know my readers will want to know what happened. Well, unfortunately she lost her last two games and finished out of the running for prize money....
by scribe | May 12, 2013 | current news, literature, off-topic
The Time Lords invented it! That’s what Doctor Who said on TV last night, and if you can’t trust a fictional time-traveler, well then, whom can you trust? For those readers who haven’t watched BBC or followed science fiction for the last 50 years,...
by scribe | May 1, 2013 | literature, off-topic
Going off topic today, for obvious reasons… Yesterday the UPS deliveryman left a heavy box on my doorstep. Sender: American Mathematical Society. I knew immediately what it was: the complimentary copies of my new book, What’s Happening in the Mathematical...
by scribe | Apr 22, 2013 | current news, off-topic
I know most of my readers don’t come here for cute kitten videos … but you get them anyway! At least this one has some chess involved (as you’ll see beginning about 1:25 in the video). You can also watch it on YouTube if you prefer. The gray kitten...
by scribe | Apr 18, 2013 | current news, off-topic, people, tournaments
On my recent trip, I was surprised when a friend asked me if I had heard of Webster University and their chess coach, a woman from “somewhere in Eastern Europe.” In fact, I had just read the Chess Life article about the Pan-Am Intercollegiate tournament...
by scribe | Apr 17, 2013 | Chess Lecture, current news, games, off-topic, ruminations
I have now returned from my trip to the small town of Emory, Virginia, where I gave an invited lecture at Emory and Henry College, and then to Sewanee, Tennessee, where my father lives. He just celebrated his 80th birthday, and I wanted to see how he was doing....
