by scribe | Dec 14, 2007 | chess clubs, games, openings, people, positions
When I was a graduate student, I once heard this story about one of the professors in the department, a world-famous mathematician who was originally from Japan. He was giving a lecture in an undergraduate course, probably calculus, and a student raised his hand and...
by scribe | Dec 12, 2007 | people
In his ChessLecture on Alexander Alekhine last week, Bryan Smith talked a little bit about the pronunciation of Alekhine’s name. The “correct” Russian pronunciation is <ahl-YO-kheen>. The Russian “kh” sounds like the Scottish...
by scribe | Dec 10, 2007 | chess clubs
One of the things I did not anticipate when I started this blog was how international it would become! We have regular readers from Denmark, Spain, and France, plus one person who spent a significant amount of time in England. And who knows what other countries might...
by scribe | Dec 8, 2007 | chess clubs, people
Writing about the Mechanics Institute chess club started me thinking about other chess clubs that I’ve played in. Although I played in school chess clubs from about eighth grade all the way through graduate school, the first club for adults that I ever went to...
by scribe | Dec 5, 2007 | chess clubs, Chess Life, games, people, positions, tournaments, US Chess League
This Tuesday night the Mechanics Institute held a reception for its latest member to make a big splash in world chess: 11-year-old Daniel Naroditsky, the world champion chess player under the age of 12. That has a nice sound to it, doesn’t it? “World...
