by scribe | Mar 15, 2020 | 2020 world championship, current news, people, ruminations, tournaments
For anyone with even a passing interest in sports, this is a pretty weird time. You open the sports page of the newspaper… and there are no games. NBA, NHL, golf, soccer, … all canceled. Which makes this an even more remarkable time for chess fans, because we...
by scribe | Mar 11, 2020 | current news, off-topic, people, ruminations, tournaments
“Without a plan, you are lost.” This is something that my college Russian teacher (who was also a chess player) once told me. He was a spy during World War II, and he said that once he was on a train when the police came on and started checking...
by scribe | Dec 30, 2019 | current news, people, positions, ruminations, tournaments
Yesterday Mike Splane hosted his last chess party of 2019. Though somewhat lightly attended (only eight people this time) it gave Eric Steger and me a chance to show our games from the last round of the Kolty Chess Club championship, in which we tied for first. Also,...
by scribe | Dec 3, 2019 | current news, people, positions
This weekend we had an abrupt change in the weather in Santa Cruz. After zero inches of rain so far this fall, the heavens opened and we had three straight days of downpour. The only thing to do was stay inside and play chess, so Gjon Feinstein and I met up with Eric...
by scribe | Oct 7, 2019 | chess clubs, endings, people, positions
Yesterday’s chess party at Mike Splane’s house turned into an endgame workshop, because both Mike Arne and Paulo Santanna came prepared with some beautiful positions. Ironically, both of them went to Spain this summer but they didn’t play in the same events. Mike Arne...
by scribe | Sep 19, 2019 | chess clubs, current news, people, tournaments
Ryder, Emmy, me and Atlee at the state championship. It’s been a month since I posted here, so I would like to reassure anybody who’s wondering that I have not fallen off the face of the earth! The above photo was taken three weeks ago at the Northern...
