by scribe | Apr 30, 2010 | 2010 world championship, current news, games
Hi chess fans! As I promised yesterday, here is my quick translation of GM Sergei Shipov’s annotations for game 5 of the Topalov-Kramnik match. Actually, it’s not clear to me that I need to do this, because Shipov’s site actually has a link to an...
by scribe | Apr 29, 2010 | 2010 world championship, current news, games, tournaments
Wow! Color me flabbergasted! I checked my blog stats this morning, and could not believe how many readers came to my blog yesterday. Seven hundred seventy (770) views! Just for comparison, that was more than ten times as many guests as I get on a typical day, and more...
by scribe | Apr 28, 2010 | 2010 world championship, current news, games, people, tournaments
Although it might not be going on much longer. I’m referring, of course, to the Anand-Topalov world championship match, which started last weekend in Sofia. As most of the chess-speaking world knows, the challenger, Topalov, started out with a stunning win in...
by scribe | Apr 25, 2010 | chess clubs, Chess Lecture, games, people
Gjon Feinstein’s chess party yesterday went very well. We had the whole Student Activities Center at Cabrillo College to ourselves. Eleven of the twelve invitees were able to make it — besides Gjon and me, there were Yves Tan, Cailen Melville, Thadeus Frei...
by scribe | Apr 24, 2010 | games, openings, people, ruminations
In my last entry I mentioned the chess party I’m going to this afternoon, which I am supposed to take two games to (my best loss, and a game where I carried one plan to its conclusion). I noticed that both games had something in common — I did not castle...
