by scribe | Dec 2, 2010 | Chess Lecture, off-topic
Okay, so one thing you probably aren’t expecting to see in a chess blog is videos of cute kittens. In fact, I may just be blazing a new trail here as far as the chessoblogosphere is concerned. But I’m sorry, I just can’t resist. Consider this an...
by scribe | Oct 23, 2010 | off-topic, people
What does it take to get a statue made of you? Apparently, just being world champion is not enough. Just for fun, I did a search this morning for statues of the chess world champions — not counting gravestones — and I only came up with three. First, there...
by scribe | Oct 12, 2010 | off-topic
As you know, I don’t do off-topic entries very often, so I hope that I can be forgiven for an off-topic entry now and then. I’m trying to keep this blog going, with reduced chess contentâ„¢, while taking a little bit of a break from the game. Last week I...
by scribe | Sep 16, 2010 | off-topic, tournaments, US Chess League
§ 1. “Various and sundry” is an idiom my mother used to say a lot … I haven’t heard it in years and years, and then it popped into my head as a title for today’s post. It’s a phrase that probably started as a joke (because the two...
by scribe | Jul 7, 2010 | Chess Lecture, Crestbook, off-topic, people
I’ve kind of hit a momentary lull in things to write about here. My latest translation for Crestbook, part two of the Alexander Khalifman interview, will probably go up early next week. The reason for the delay is that Khalifman has asked to read over the...
by scribe | Jun 27, 2010 | games, off-topic, ruminations
Last week I went with my wife to a quilting and crafts expo in Reno, which gave me a lot of time to kill, and so it happened that on Thursday I watched the end of the longest match in tennis history. For those of you who pay even less attention to tennis than I do,...
