Marathon sports contests

Last week I went with my wife to a quilting and crafts expo in Reno, which gave me a lot of time to kill, and so it happened that on Thursday I watched the end of the longest match in tennis history. For those of you who pay even less attention to tennis than I do,...

Machine dreams

One of my positions in the recent Chicago Open could have reached a position that I think only a computer could play correctly. Yesterday I got together with four friends — Yves Tan, Gjon Feinstein, Cailen Melville, and Thadeus Frei — and we spent at least...

Karpov interview on Crestbook

I’m pleased to announce my first officially sanctioned translation for the Crestbook website! For those of you who enjoyed reading my translations of Sergei Shipov’s commentaries during the recently concluded Anand-Topalov match, this is especially good...

More Memorial Day Madness

The Chicago Open (which I wrote about in my last four blog entries) was not the only chess event that happened on Memorial Day weekend. In Stillwater, Oklahoma, there was big news in the chess grouposphere (a separate, parallel universe to the blogosphere), because...