by scribe | Mar 20, 2009 | chess clubs, endings, games, people, tournaments
Note: In the first version of this post I got a very important name wrong, and I have corrected it throughout. — DM Michael Aigner, of “fpawn” blog fame, is fond of complaining about all the youngsters who snap up the top prizes in northern...
by scribe | Mar 2, 2009 | chess clubs, games, openings, people
I’m back from my two-week trip from Norway! It was a business trip, of course, so I didn’t get to play nearly as much chess as I had hoped, but nevertheless I have a few pictures to show you. First, here is a quiz. Can any of you identify what famous chess...
by scribe | Jan 26, 2009 | games, people, tournaments
As readers of this blog know, every now and then I like to do my small part to make the chess world smaller, by surfing some of the Russian chess websites and reporting on what I find. This way I can put my college Russian to some use. On the ChessPro website, there...
by scribe | Jan 20, 2009 | chess clubs, Chess Lecture, people
A couple weeks ago I got an exciting e-mail from Carina Jørgensen, a long-time reader of this blog. She received a commission for chess-related art from J.C. Hallman, author of The Chess Artist, and she has posted the final work on her website, CarlinArt. Longtime...
by scribe | Jan 18, 2009 | games, people, positions, tournaments
This morning I was rooting around my old chess binders looking for one game, and ended up (for no good reason) playing over another one. This game was from the U.S. Class Championship in Philadelphia, 1985, a tournament that I have basically no recollection of! This...
by scribe | Jan 1, 2009 | Chess Lecture, off-topic, openings, people, tournaments
Happy new year! On this first morning of 2009, I decided to take a walk around the blogs to see what the neighbors are up to. Michael (fpawn) Aigner writes about the Pan-Am Intercollegiate Championship, at which Stanford finished third. The Pan-Am should really have...
