by scribe | Mar 16, 2009 | chess clubs, tournaments
Tomorrow I am going to fly back to Oslo, where I will hopefully get another chance to visit the Oslo Chess Club and maybe watch some of the club championship action on Thursday. I’ve been really sporadic in my posting lately, and I hope that will change after my...
by scribe | Mar 5, 2009 | chess clubs, Chess Life, tournaments
This weekend a new chess event, the Western Chess Classic, will be held in the Bay Area. This is really exciting, because the Northern California chess schedule has been pretty sparse in recent years. The best northern California tournament, in fact, isn’t held...
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 | Feb 20, 2009 | chess clubs, Chess Lecture, games, off-topic
I arrived in Oslo Monday afternoon, so I have now been here four full days. My first impression was that it looked absolutely like something out of a fairy tale. Oslo has been getting a lot of snow this winter — in fact, it has snowed every day since I arrived....
by scribe | Feb 9, 2009 | chess clubs, Chess Lecture, off-topic, openings, ruminations
I’ve been a little bit sporadic lately in my blog entries, and I owe you an explanation. My 18-year-old cat, Chutney, passed away yesterday. Chutney was always sort of a “background” cat in our household. For those of you who have heard meows during...
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...
