by scribe | Feb 28, 2008 | Chess Lecture, games, positions, tournaments
If I ever write that book of amateur games told in “story” fashion (or “melodramatic,” a word some of our readers took issue with), here is one that I will have to include. This was the game between Dan Burkhard (White) and Jeff Mallett (Black)...
by scribe | Feb 27, 2008 | Chess Lecture, endings, people, tournaments
This is just an entry devoted to odds and ends of various kinds. First of all, I just wanted to let everybody know that I’ve gotten over my blunder of last Sunday, which I wrote about in my post “Back to Square One.” I now realize it was not the...
by scribe | Feb 25, 2008 | games, positions, ruminations
A couple days ago, Dribbling made an interesting comment on my post “Bronstein on computers and humans.” He comments that he recently watched GM Nakamura (“Smallville” on ICC) playing bullet chess against a computer. Nakamura would deliberately...
by scribe | Feb 24, 2008 | games, positions, tournaments
It’s hard to think of an appropriate title for today’s post, because most of the titles I can think of are not appropriate for family viewing! I lost my sixth-round game in the Santa Cruz Cup in the most annoying possible way. Playing the White pieces...
by scribe | Feb 21, 2008 | off-topic
Here’s a slightly off-topic post, for which I hope I will be forgiven. But it was just so much fun, I can’t resist … Last night I hosted “Moon and a Mocha II” at the Capitola Book Cafe. The announcement below, clipped from the San Jose...
