by scribe | Mar 24, 2009 | chess clubs, endings, games, openings, people, positions, tournaments
Note: In the first draft of this post I got an important name wrong, and I have corrected it throughout. My apologies. — DM I’m back home from my second trip to Oslo. In my last entry, IÂ promised some analysis of Roar Elseth Nikolas Mellem’s upset...
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 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 | Feb 1, 2009 | openings
A couple days ago I got a comment on my post “Bird by Bird, Part 3B,” which raised a very interesting question. In the variation that runs 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 4. Nxd4 ed 5. O-O g6 6. d3 Bg7 7. f4 c6 8. Ba4 d5 9. ed Qxd5 10. Re1+ Ne7 11. Bb3 the...
by scribe | Jan 2, 2009 | Chess Lecture, games, openings
It’s long past time for me to continue my series on the Bird (or, more properly, the Blackburne) Variation of the Ruy Lopez. International Master Mark Ginsburg finally gave me the motivation that I needed, by writing in his blog the following comment: For...
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...
