by scribe | Nov 30, 2009 | games, positions, tournaments
As I wrote in yesterday’s entry, I had another interesting game with the Radchenko Variation of the Two Knights Defense yesterday. It’s funny, after playing this line only three times in 20 years, I have had two chances to play it this year....
by scribe | Nov 29, 2009 | people, tournaments, US Chess League
Your record 19-game winning streak is in jeopardy! Thadeus Frei, a 16-year-old player from Santa Cruz, went 6-0 in the class B section of the CalChess State Championship this weekend. He also won 5 games in a row in his last tournament, so he is now riding an 11-game...
by scribe | Nov 28, 2009 | games, people, tournaments
Back in the old days of the Cold War, Mad magazine use to have a great cartoon called “Spy vs. Spy.” (Maybe they still do — I haven’t looked at Mad for about 30 years.) The cartoon chronicled the never-ending escapades of two spies, the White...
by scribe | Nov 25, 2009 | Chess Lecture, games, people, tournaments
Yesterday Jesse Kraai gave his usual excellent ChessLecture, which this time was called “The Panda Loses to Wang Hao in the First Round of the World Cup.” It was about his friend/housemate/training partner Josh Friedel, who qualified to play in the 2009...
by scribe | Nov 21, 2009 | Chess Lecture, games, off-topic, tournaments
Yesterday I was driving around town when the song “I’ve Seen All Good People” by Yes came on the radio. This was the first time that I had ever really listened carefully to the song, even though it dates back to 1971. In fact, it was practically the...
