by scribe | Nov 11, 2009 | Chess Lecture, games, openings, tournaments, US Chess League
All right, let’s talk a little bit more about what happens in Bronstein’s Folly (1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. g4!?) if Black “chickens out” and plays 4. … Bd7. The reason for this is twofold: first, it came up in a recent US Chess...
by scribe | Nov 10, 2009 | openings, positions, US Chess League
… All the live-long day! (Sorry about the reference to a nineteenth-century folk song that is probably best forgotten.) Anyway, Michael Goeller posted a comment a week ago that set me off on another serious binge of Caro-Kann study. He pointed out this post in...
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 30, 2009 | games, openings, positions, US Chess League
Today I’m going to discuss a game that I already wrote about in Blogging from 32,000 Feet, but this time we’ll look at it from the viewpoint of my opponent! Tim Rogalski e-mailed me and said that he had written up some annotations for our game that he is...
by scribe | Sep 22, 2009 | chess clubs, Chess Lecture, openings, tournaments, US Chess League
I’ve been kind of quiet since my last post, “Blogging from 32,000 Feet.” No particular reason, except that I haven’t had a lot to blog about. So this is going to be a kind of random grab bag of news. Feel free to send in a random response! The...
by scribe | Mar 24, 2008 | Chess Lecture, openings, tournaments, US Chess League
Four more days until the first-ever U.S. Championship Qualifier! This morning I checked out the advance entries (as of last Wednesday). There are 87 people on the list, plus two possibles. Surprisingly, there are only 7 grandmasters entered, and 12 international...
