Aptos chess club tournament

While most serious chess fans are following the U.S. Championship, which is currently taking place in St. Louis, today I had only one tournament on my mind: the annual Aptos Public Library tournament. The library is where I run my weekly chess club for kids, and I...

Congrats to fpawn’s kids!

Today I want everyone to click over to Michael “fpawn” Aigner’s blog and read about how incredibly well his students did in the state scholastic championships. It’s especially amazing that Yian Liou, a sixth-grader, won the state high-school...

Prodigy Smackdown

Here’s a game that I wrote about last fall, but didn’t have a chance to analyze until yesterday. I do eventually analyze all of my tournament games, but sometimes it takes a few months (or years) for me to get to them! My opponent in this game was Luke...

New club in town

Last night I went to the first Thursday evening chess club at Cabrillo College, in Aptos. Whether this is actually a “new club” depends a little bit on one’s interpretation. There already is a Tuesday club at Cabrillo, which Yves Tan started last...