by scribe | Oct 27, 2021 | chess clubs, current news, games
This summer and fall I’ve been playing a series of training games with one of my students from the Aptos Library Chess Club, Atlee, who is about 1500 strength (my estimate). Even though I have won all of the games so far, I’ve been quite impressed with his...
by scribe | Oct 9, 2021 | chess clubs, games, positions, ruminations, tournaments
Some of you might wondering, “When are you going to write Year 50 of your 50 Years of Chess series?” Patience! We are still in year 50. Actually, I had a plan that went awry. I was going to play in the “Real Bay Area Championship” in Santa...
by scribe | Sep 28, 2021 | chess clubs, games, openings, people, tournaments
Photo taken at Mike Splane’s celebration of life, 9/4/2021 When Mike Splane asked me to play on his team (the Kolty Club team) at the 2020 U.S. Amateur Team West tournament, I enthusiastically said yes. He had been trying to get me to play on their team for...
by scribe | Sep 13, 2021 | chess clubs, games, tournaments
The last five years of my retrospective are kind of hard to write because (a) they are so recent that anybody who has been following this blog has seen the games before; and (b) I also haven’t been playing much. One tournament in 2016, none in 2017, two in 2018,...
by scribe | Sep 1, 2021 | chess clubs, games, literature, tournaments
As the finish line of my retrospective approaches, we’re going to put on a “finishing kick” and cover three years in one post. The reason is that I have almost no games to show you from the years 2016 to 2018. I played in only one tournament, with 5...
by scribe | Jun 5, 2021 | chess clubs, Chess Life, games, off-topic, ruminations, tournaments
In 2007, I had my first and only slight brush with celebrity, when I appeared on national television for the first time. I was interviewed for a new television show called “The Universe,” which aired for four or five season on the History Channel. In the...
