by scribe | Mar 24, 2008 | Chess Lecture, openings, tournaments, US Chess League
Four more days until the first-ever U.S. Championship Qualifier! This morning I checked out the advance entries (as of last Wednesday). There are 87 people on the list, plus two possibles. Surprisingly, there are only 7 grandmasters entered, and 12 international...
by scribe | Mar 21, 2008 | chess clubs, games, openings, ruminations
Last night, about five minutes before I left for chess club, I was talking with my wife, and I needed a word that means “a self-contradictory phrase.” I opened my mouth… and nothing came out! I couldn’t believe it. I knew that there is such a...
by scribe | Mar 16, 2008 | Chess Lecture, games, positions
A lot of you know already that I give regular lectures at www.chesslecture.com, a subscription website with some of the best chess instruction on the Web! But I think this blog is getting more and more readers who aren’t subscribers to ChessLecture, and so for...
by scribe | Mar 13, 2008 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life, off-topic, tournaments
Back from my four-day sojourn in Houston, that is. I went to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, in order to learn what’s new in our solar system and hopefully find some topics for articles. I did come back with a couple of ideas. I won’t discuss...
by scribe | Mar 6, 2008 | games, people, positions
Today I read, first on www.uschess.org and then on Michael Aigner’s blog, that we have a new holder of the title of youngest National Master ever in the U.S. His name is Nicholas Nip, and he is 9 years and 11 months old. Aigner’s blog says that Nicholas...
