by scribe | Jun 14, 2012 | games, people, positions
Yesterday I got together with Gjon Feinstein, Cailen Melville and Thadeus Frei for some skittles chess and analysis. Cailen showed us one of his recent games. As so often happens, we got completely sidetracked by analyzing variations that never happened. It usually...
by scribe | Jun 10, 2012 | chess clubs, people, positions, tournaments
I can never predict how well my lessons are going to go at the Aptos Library chess club. It seems to depend completely on which kids show up that day, what kind of mood they’re in, and other unknowable random factors. Last Tuesday was a really good day. We had...
by scribe | Jun 9, 2012 | 2012 world championship, current news, people
There is a great interview of Boris Gelfand at www.chessvibes.com, which is required reading for anybody who is still coming down from the adrenaline buzz of the World Championship match. Probably the most interesting revelation of the interview is the fact that Garry...
by scribe | Jun 4, 2012 | Chess Lecture, current news, people
The best series of articles at chess.com came to an unexpected and somewhat sad conclusion last week. I wrote previously in two posts (here and here) about Bryan Smith’s series, “A Traveling Chess Player,” which began with his impulsive and not...
by scribe | Jun 1, 2012 | current news, off-topic
Now that the world championship match is over, the confetti has been cleaned up and things are getting back to normal, I want to tell you about a non-chess topic that is close to my heart. One of Santa Cruz County’s independent booksellers, the Capitola Book...
