by scribe | Feb 28, 2021 | chess clubs, games, openings, people
We’ve come to the halfway point in my chess narrative, and it’s the year of a big change: my move to California. During the first 25 years of my chess career I lived in several different places: Indiana, Virginia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio. In the...
by scribe | Feb 23, 2021 | endings, games, off-topic, people, ruminations
If you asked me what tournament that I’ve played in was the most fun or the most rewarding, the list would be very short. My first rated tournament. The tournament I played in Russia in 1978. My two North Carolina championships, of course. The 2006 Western...
by scribe | Feb 16, 2021 | endings, games, off-topic, openings, people, ruminations, tournaments
It was the best of time in 1994, and it was the worst of times. I’ll start with the “best,” and then get to the “worst.” At the end of 1993, as I wrote in my last post, I had four good tournaments in a row, and my good fortune continued...
by scribe | Jan 31, 2021 | games, openings, people
I appreciate the patience of my readers with this retrospective of my chess career! Andy Lee, one of my Facebook friends, did a similar thing last year: for the 40 days leading up to his 40th birthday, he showed one position a day. His arrangement was not...
by scribe | Jan 23, 2021 | Chess Life, games, people
In my last post, I gave up on trying to pick a “best game” from 1992 because there are three high-quality, or at least high-interest games that I wanted to show you. Today, I’ll show you my favorite single move ever. A few years ago, I picked it as...
by scribe | Jan 16, 2021 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life, games, people
As we move to 1992 in my retrospective look at my chess career, I face a dilemma. In 1990 and 1991 I had trouble finding any good games to show you, but in 1992 I have the opposite problem — too many good games. There’s one that, in my notebook, I call a...
