by scribe | Aug 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
I wasn’t there, but I can still report on it! The U.S. Open ended today with a six-way tie between Alex Lenderman, Sergei Kudrin, Alex Yermolinsky, Jacek Stopa, Jesse Kraai, and Dmitry Gurevich. Lenderman and Kudrin drew in the last round — I’ll bet...
by scribe | Aug 5, 2009 | ruminations, tournaments
Last weekend, as I mentioned in a previous post, I played in the Silicon Valley Challenge, a tournament that offered free entry to National Masters. This posed an interesting question: Would they give me a free entry, even though my current rating is 2102? The minimum...
by scribe | Aug 3, 2009 | endings, games, tournaments
In my last post I reported on the results of the Silicon Valley Challenge. Although I was disappointed in my score (2.5/4), it was not all bad. I had two really fascinating endgames. Unfortunately, I botched them both in time trouble, drawing one and losing the other....
by scribe | Aug 2, 2009 | people, tournaments
Yesterday I played in the Silicon Valley Challenge #7, a four-round, game/60 tournament organized by Charles Sun, a strong junior player who also happens to be interested in directing tournaments. It’s a rare thing for juniors to be interested in directing, and...
