by scribe | Oct 25, 2009 | games, people, tournaments
After the first four rounds of the Western States Open, the two biggest stories are upsets and youth. Both of the two top seeds went down to defeat in the first two rounds. In round one, GM Jaan Ehlvest (seeded #2) blundered a piece against veteran master Andrew...
by scribe | Oct 18, 2009 | Chess Lecture, people, positions, tournaments, US Chess League
My blog has been a little bit quiet for the last few days. Don’t worry, nothing bad has been happening, I’ve just been busy. However, there has been plenty of news in the chess world. As reported on Chess Life Online and lots of other places, Jerry Hanken,...
by scribe | Sep 27, 2009 | literature, people
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been involved in a project that I couldn’t write about here, but I am now at liberty to talk about it. Daniel Naroditsky, the world under-12 champion in 2007 (whom I wrote about in this post from December 2007) has now,...
by scribe | Sep 26, 2009 | Chess Lecture, games, people, positions, tournaments
In one of my very first posts in this blog, I profiled a Bay Area youngster named Erik Kislik, who at that time was an expert with a rating about the same as mine (2115). I described him as being an incipient chess hobo — a person who cares only about chess, who...
by scribe | Aug 19, 2009 | endings, games, literature, people, positions, tournaments
Back in April I posted an entry called “Chicken!” (part 1) that began telling the story of a game I played with a master named Rich Jackson in the 1987 North Carolina Championship. This particular tournament was one of the highlights of my chess career, as...
by scribe | Aug 2, 2009 | people, tournaments
Yesterday I played in the Silicon Valley Challenge #7, a four-round, game/60 tournament organized by Charles Sun, a strong junior player who also happens to be interested in directing tournaments. It’s a rare thing for juniors to be interested in directing, and...
