by scribe | Jul 18, 2010 | Crestbook, current news, games, tournaments, translations
We move on now to round four of the Dortmund super-GM tournament, and once again I will translate GM Sergey Shipov’s commentaries for you. In yesterday’s blog post I forgot to give the obligatory link to Crestbook, where his original commentaries (in...
by scribe | Jul 17, 2010 | Crestbook, current news, games, tournaments, translations
As I announced in yesterday’s blog post, I will be translating grandmaster Sergey Shipov’s commentaries on the Dortmund tournament for rounds 3, 4, 7, 8, and 10. The translations of the other rounds (1, 2, 5, 6, and 9) can be found at...
by scribe | Jul 16, 2010 | Crestbook, current news, people, tournaments, translations
Heads up, chess fans! Over the next two weeks, starting tomorrow, I plan to translate some of GM Sergey Shipov’s online commentaries from www.crestbook.com on the grandmaster super-tournament in Dortmund, Germany. I will share the duties with another English...
by scribe | Jul 11, 2010 | Chess Lecture, openings
As anybody who has seen my ChessLectures or read enough of this blog knows, one of my favorite opening experiments of all time was the following queen sacrifice against the Sicilian Defense: 1. e4 c5 2. f4 d5 3. Nf3!? de 4. Ng5 (a Budapest Defense reversed) .Nf6 5....
by scribe | Jul 7, 2010 | Chess Lecture, Crestbook, off-topic, people
I’ve kind of hit a momentary lull in things to write about here. My latest translation for Crestbook, part two of the Alexander Khalifman interview, will probably go up early next week. The reason for the delay is that Khalifman has asked to read over the...
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