by | Jul 4, 2009 | off-topic, people
Remember that awful feeling when your parents came home and told you that you were going to get a new sister, and you were just going to love her soooo much? Okay, maybe you don’t remember the feeling. To be honest, I don’t either, because I was only 359...
by | Jun 26, 2009 | Chess Lecture, people, ruminations
Last weekend David Vigorito, aka “Fluffy,” one of my co-conspirators at ChessLecture, got married. Mark Ginsburg has pictures in his blog, and he mentions several prominent New England chess players who were at the ceremony. I wonder if chess sets were...
by | Jun 21, 2009 | endings, games, people
A couple weeks ago I got an e-mail from an old friend of mine, Robin Cunningham. We used to play chess together in North Carolina, when he was in high school and I was teaching at Duke University. When we first met we were roughly even in strength, but of course...
by | Jun 11, 2009 | Chess Lecture, games, people
As I mentioned in my recent post called “Aloha!”, ChessLecture has recently added a very distinguished teacher to its team: grandmaster Roman Dzindzichashvili. If any of you have thought of subscribing to ChessLecture but weren’t really sure whether...
by | May 6, 2009 | people, tournaments
Today I want everyone to click over to Michael “fpawn” Aigner’s blog and read about how incredibly well his students did in the state scholastic championships. It’s especially amazing that Yian Liou, a sixth-grader, won the state high-school...
by | May 4, 2009 | games, people, tournaments
Here’s a game that I wrote about last fall, but didn’t have a chance to analyze until yesterday. I do eventually analyze all of my tournament games, but sometimes it takes a few months (or years) for me to get to them! My opponent in this game was Luke...
