by scribe | Mar 26, 2009 | off-topic
Okay, we’re going to go off-topic for today, as I am going to post a few more photographs from my trip to Oslo last week. No chess in these pictures. And since someone requested a picture of me doing a hula dance, I’ve put one hula picture at the end. Hey!...
by scribe | Mar 24, 2009 | chess clubs, endings, games, openings, people, positions, tournaments
Note: In the first draft of this post I got an important name wrong, and I have corrected it throughout. My apologies. — DM I’m back home from my second trip to Oslo. In my last entry, IÂ promised some analysis of Roar Elseth Nikolas Mellem’s upset...
by scribe | Mar 20, 2009 | chess clubs, endings, games, people, tournaments
Note: In the first version of this post I got a very important name wrong, and I have corrected it throughout. — DM Michael Aigner, of “fpawn” blog fame, is fond of complaining about all the youngsters who snap up the top prizes in northern...
by scribe | Mar 16, 2009 | chess clubs, tournaments
Tomorrow I am going to fly back to Oslo, where I will hopefully get another chance to visit the Oslo Chess Club and maybe watch some of the club championship action on Thursday. I’ve been really sporadic in my posting lately, and I hope that will change after my...
by scribe | Mar 5, 2009 | chess clubs, Chess Life, tournaments
This weekend a new chess event, the Western Chess Classic, will be held in the Bay Area. This is really exciting, because the Northern California chess schedule has been pretty sparse in recent years. The best northern California tournament, in fact, isn’t held...
