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 | 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 | Sep 8, 2009 | games, openings, positions, tournaments
Hello again!! Thanks to the miracle of modern technology I am writing my first blog post from midair — specifically from American Airlines flight 1861 from Dallas to San Jose. Another of the miracles of modern technology is that I just lost 15 minutes of work. I...
by scribe | Aug 31, 2009 | Chess Lecture, endings, games, off-topic, openings, tournaments
I am typing this blog post on a new computer! Kay started seeing advertisements on television for the Dell Lollipop netbook computers. They’re small, they’re inexpensive, and best of all (to her) they come in cute colors! Women are different from men....
