CalChess — first 2 rounds

At the CalChess Labor Day Tournament, they really should rename the Expert section. They should call it the “Worn-Out Old Experts and Teen-Age Hotshot Class-A Kids” section. That’s the way it was two years ago, when I played in the Expert section...

Psychological preparation

As I mentioned in my last post, my next big tournament is coming up this weekend — the CalChess Labor Day Open — and I have not had time to do any real chess preparation. But last night I did some psychological preparation, and I’d like to talk a...

The doctor is *in*

But are the patients? I guess we’ll see! I’m now (mostly) done with those pesky real-world commitments that kept me away from this blog for a while. This weekend I will play in my first chess tournament since May, the CalChess Labor Day Classic. This is...