by scribe | Jan 2, 2018 | off-topic, ruminations
Happy New Year! Here’s our first chess problem of the year, which doesn’t look like a chess problem:How many acorns do you see in the picture? Yesterday I went hiking with my wife and one of her friends in a state park near Santa Cruz, and toward the end...
by scribe | Nov 28, 2017 | current news, literature, off-topic, people, ruminations
I hope that everybody reading this will check out the new video about the 2016 Chess Olympiad at YouTube! I apparently cannot embed it in this post, but here is a link to the video. I really don’t think that people outside the chess world appreciated what a...
by scribe | Oct 23, 2017 | current news, off-topic
Last weekend Santa Cruz had an annual event called the Open Studios Art Tour, a chance for local artists to promote their work. It’s highly competitive (Santa Cruz has a lot of artists!) but this year one of my neighbors, Martha McNulty was selected to exhibit...
by scribe | Oct 15, 2017 | off-topic, people, ruminations
I’m back! I’ve finished writing my book, the last files are going off to the editor tomorrow, and at last I can think about chess and my blog again. For a long time one of my many passwords (Not for this site, though! Don’t get any ideas!) has been...
by scribe | Sep 10, 2017 | current news, off-topic, people, ruminations, tournaments
The FIDE World Cup is going crazy with upsets! Just look at the world’s top players on the September rating list and how they are doing so far, after the “classical” part of round 3. Carlsen — OUT Vachier-Lagrave — Tied, 1-1 Kramnik...
by scribe | Aug 27, 2017 | current news, off-topic
For those who’ve noticed a certain silence from my blog over the last few days, the reason is that I went eclipse-chasing. Somehow or other I managed to turn a less than three-minute eclipse into a full week trip. And it was great! The best thing about the...
