by scribe | Feb 2, 2012 | current news, people, tournaments
As many readers probably know already, the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival just ended, with one very familiar name on top — GM Nigel Short — and one very surprising one. The co-winner with Short was the 17-year-old Women’s World Champion, Hou...
by scribe | Jan 19, 2012 | Chess Life, current news, people, tournaments
In every issue of Chess Life you can see dozens of upcoming tournaments. And yet for about 98 percent of them, you never find out who won. Only the big national tournaments ever get covered in the magazine. I was reminded of this when Pablo Pena sent in a comment a...
by scribe | Jan 15, 2012 | people, positions, ruminations, tournaments
Last night Mike Splane was showing me and Gjon Feinstein a game he played in the New Year Open, and we got to this position. White to move. Black, a young player named Richard Yi, has just played 18. … e5!, a move that Michael says that he completely overlooked....
by scribe | Jan 11, 2012 | Chess Life, people, ruminations
It’s got to be the guy who plays the most games, right? I think that there’s no question that the most active player in top-level international chess is Viktor Korchnoi. According to the following highly unofficial statistics that I found on this web page,...
by scribe | Jan 9, 2012 | off-topic, people, tournaments
So you all must be wondering, “Why were you, a chess blogger living in the San Francisco Bay area, not at the Northern California International chess tournament last week?” Unfortunately, this tournament always seems to conflict with the Joint Mathematics...
by scribe | Nov 30, 2011 | games, off-topic, people, positions
Chess LOL kitties! “That Black’s position was in ruins was obvious to the veriest tyro.” One of my favorite chess quotes of all time! Who said it, and what game was he talking about? (The position may help, although Sassy the kitty has introduced...
