by scribe | Jul 26, 2009 | chess clubs, games, tournaments
Last weekend four people from Santa Cruz went to San Francisco to play in the Bagby Memorial at the Mechanics Institute. This was a one-day, five-round tournament with a fast time control, something like game/45. I would never be crazy enough to play in a tournament...
by | Jul 13, 2009 | chess clubs, games, positions
Yesterday I met a “new kid in town,” whose name is Pablo Pena. There are a couple of Pablo Penas in the U.S. Chess Federation database, but I suspect he is probably the one from Oregon who has a USCF rating of 2082. The occasion was the second Sunday...
by | Jul 12, 2009 | openings, positions
Way back last November I started a series of posts about the Bird Variation of the Ruy Lopez, which is my bread-and-butter defense to 1. e4. By now most of you have probably forgotten all about the previous posts, so here are the links in order: Bird by Bird: In this...
by | Jul 4, 2009 | off-topic, people
Remember that awful feeling when your parents came home and told you that you were going to get a new sister, and you were just going to love her soooo much? Okay, maybe you don’t remember the feeling. To be honest, I don’t either, because I was only 359...
