by scribe | Jan 15, 2012 | people, positions, ruminations, tournaments
Last night Mike Splane was showing me and Gjon Feinstein a game he played in the New Year Open, and we got to this position. White to move. Black, a young player named Richard Yi, has just played 18. … e5!, a move that Michael says that he completely overlooked....
by scribe | Jan 11, 2012 | Chess Life, people, ruminations
It’s got to be the guy who plays the most games, right? I think that there’s no question that the most active player in top-level international chess is Viktor Korchnoi. According to the following highly unofficial statistics that I found on this web page,...
by scribe | Jan 9, 2012 | off-topic, people, tournaments
So you all must be wondering, “Why were you, a chess blogger living in the San Francisco Bay area, not at the Northern California International chess tournament last week?” Unfortunately, this tournament always seems to conflict with the Joint Mathematics...
by scribe | Jan 8, 2012 | games, positions, tournaments
I’ve just spent about five hours analyzing the finishing position of my game with Emory Tate from last weekend. Here’s the position: Black to move. White (IM Tate) has just played 24. Ra2 and offered a draw. What should Black do? Let’s ask the...
by scribe | Jan 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
As I promised in my last post, here is some analysis of the last-round game between International Master Milos Pavlovic and National Master Mike Splane at the New Year Open. It’s a game that does credit to both players. I am going to skip over the first 28 moves...
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