by scribe | Jun 19, 2021 | endings, games, people, tournaments
As I’ve mentioned before, we have moved into the part of my 50-year retrospective that has already been covered in my blog. So it’s not too surprising that my best game from 2009, and the one that I want to show you today, is a game that I already analyzed...
by scribe | Jun 13, 2021 | Chess Lecture, games, openings, people, tournaments
After my all-time best game, my win over IM David Pruess in 2006, I was invited by IM (and soon to be grandmaster) Jesse Kraai to record a lecture about the game for ChessLecture.com. The lecture instantly hit their top-ten list, and it was so popular that I was...
by scribe | May 24, 2021 | Chess Lecture, games, literature, openings, people
Many of you know the game I’m going to write about today. Don McLean doesn’t play a concert without “American Pie.” And I’m not going to write a lifetime retrospective of my chess games without my game against David Pruess. It’s...
by scribe | May 8, 2021 | games, people, positions, tournaments
Step right up for round two of the Emory Tate versus Dana Mackenzie show! If you didn’t catch round one, you can go back and read it in my Year 31 post. Technically, today’s game is round four, because we had played three games before this one, with two...
by scribe | Apr 25, 2021 | games, openings, people
The chess world is finally warming up again after the Pandemic Year. I feel a little bit guilty not writing about the 2020-21 Candidates Tournament, the longest tournament in history (?), which is nearing a conclusion more than a year after it began. Ian...
by scribe | Apr 13, 2021 | chess clubs, endings, games, openings, people
The year 2001 is one I’ll always remember for two trips, neither having anything to do with chess. The first one was a trip to Santa Fe, where I was scheduled to interview Stuart Kauffman for Discover magazine. This was a super exciting opportunity, as Discover...
