by scribe | Oct 23, 2021 | current news, endings, people, ruminations, Uncategorized
Walter through the years. Last Sunday, my father Walter Nance passed away at the age of 88. Walter taught me to play chess when I was about 7 years old, and I can still remember how excited I was when I beat him for the first time when I was 9 years old. He was a...
by scribe | Oct 3, 2021 | Chess Lecture, current news, people, positions, tournaments
Okay, I admit that I have not been following this extravaganza called the Meltwater Champions Tour, which Magnus Carlsen has now won with two rounds to go. (Yawn…) Mostly I don’t care about it because it’s rapid chess (game/15 with 10 seconds per...
by scribe | Sep 28, 2021 | chess clubs, games, openings, people, tournaments
Photo taken at Mike Splane’s celebration of life, 9/4/2021 When Mike Splane asked me to play on his team (the Kolty Club team) at the 2020 U.S. Amateur Team West tournament, I enthusiastically said yes. He had been trying to get me to play on their team for...
by scribe | Aug 22, 2021 | endings, games, people, ruminations
I want to thank the people who wrote to me here or by e-mail or on Facebook after Mike Splane’s death. In this blog, I’ve been privileged to have the opportunity to steal — oops, um, er, I mean “write about” — many of his ideas....
by scribe | Aug 12, 2021 | current news, literature, people, ruminations
Last night I received a very unexpected e-mail from Ken Case, one of the regulars at Mike Splane’s chess parties. Ken said that Mike has passed away. Mike has been in poor health for at least the last two or three years. The source of some but not all of his...
by scribe | Jul 18, 2021 | Chess Lecture, games, people
Wow! We’re moving on up to 2013 in this retrospective, and in this year I have a rich selection of interesting games to show you. But — here’s the catch — I’ve already written about almost all of them on this blog. Here are some of the...
