by scribe | Jan 26, 2009 | games, people, tournaments
As readers of this blog know, every now and then I like to do my small part to make the chess world smaller, by surfing some of the Russian chess websites and reporting on what I find. This way I can put my college Russian to some use. On the ChessPro website, there...
by scribe | Jan 20, 2009 | chess clubs, Chess Lecture, people
A couple weeks ago I got an exciting e-mail from Carina Jørgensen, a long-time reader of this blog. She received a commission for chess-related art from J.C. Hallman, author of The Chess Artist, and she has posted the final work on her website, CarlinArt. Longtime...
by scribe | Jan 18, 2009 | games, people, positions, tournaments
This morning I was rooting around my old chess binders looking for one game, and ended up (for no good reason) playing over another one. This game was from the U.S. Class Championship in Philadelphia, 1985, a tournament that I have basically no recollection of! This...
by scribe | Jan 16, 2009 | off-topic
I’d like to announce the publication (or imminent publication) of the two books I worked on last year. Neither of them is a chess book, so they may or may not be of interest to readers of this blog. But just in case you’re interested, here is where you can...
by scribe | Jan 13, 2009 | Chess Lecture, off-topic, positions
Hello! I’m back again from my trip to Washington, DC, for the math meeting. It was two weeks before Barack Obama’s inauguration, and the stores were already full of touristy souvenirs, so that one could pretend to have been present at this historic...
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