by scribe | Nov 17, 2007 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life
This week I submitted an article to Chess Life that was very closely based on my “Eight-Dimensional Chess” lecture on www.chesslecture.com. I’m glad to say that the editor liked it a lot. He said that the earliest slot for publication is in late...
by scribe | Nov 16, 2007 | people, tournaments
As I mentioned in my last post, I recently spent an enjoyable hour or two browsing www.64.ru and other Russian chess sites. I want to mention another article I read that took me back to the days of the Cold War — the not-so-good old days — and closed a...
by scribe | Nov 15, 2007 | openings, people
Every now and then I like to surf Russian web sites, just to see what’s happening on the other side of the world. (I studied Russian in college, spent a semester abroad in Leningrad — now St. Petersburg — and used to be somewhat fluent. For lack of...
by scribe | Nov 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
“What are those pictures for?” One of the kids in my Aptos Library chess club was looking at the page I had opened to in Chess Tactics for Kids. Probably he had never looked at the inside of a chess book before. It’s the sort of question that kids...
by scribe | Nov 9, 2007 | Chess Lecture, endings, games, literature, openings, people
As I mentioned in my last entry, I would like to get some synergy going between this blog and my ChessLectures. With that in mind, here are some of the topics I’m planning to lecture on in the future (starting with the definites, then the possibles): Two Knights...
