by scribe | Nov 3, 2010 | current news, people, tournaments
Yesterday the San Jose Mercury News, which is Steven Zierk’s home-town newspaper (he lives in Los Gatos, a suburb of San Jose) published a very extensive article about his triumph in the world under-18 chess championship. I urge you all to read it! I think one...
by scribe | Nov 1, 2010 | Crestbook, people, translations
My series of translations for www.crestbook.com continues today, with an interview of Alexei Shirov. Unfortunately, the interview is somewhat old, so it doesn’t cover such interesting topics as the recent Bilbao tournament or the outcome of the FIDE presidential...
by scribe | Oct 30, 2010 | current news, endings, games, people
I think a lot of people, even in the U.S., may not have heard of Steven Zierk before this week. He made some waves when he upset GM Loek Van Wely last year in Reno, and he played on the San Francisco Mechanics team in the U.S. Chess League for the last couple of...
by scribe | Oct 24, 2010 | Chess Lecture, people
I’ve been taking a break from chess, so you haven’t seen much analysis here recently, but this weekend I did have some friends (Gjon and Cailen) over to my house for some videos and speed chess. We watched one of Jesse Kraai’s recent videos on...
by scribe | Oct 23, 2010 | off-topic, people
What does it take to get a statue made of you? Apparently, just being world champion is not enough. Just for fun, I did a search this morning for statues of the chess world champions — not counting gravestones — and I only came up with three. First, there...
by scribe | Oct 14, 2010 | people, ruminations
Last night I watched Survivor on television for the first time this year, along with my wife, who watches it religiously. I unexpectedly got a giggle out of the preview of next week’s episode. The biggest loudmouth on the show, a guy named Marty Piombo, is shown...
