by scribe | Jul 6, 2012 | off-topic, ruminations
I always think twice before I do an off-topic post, but I decided to go ahead today. How can I resist, with a title like that? As I mentioned in an earlier post, a local bookstore called the Capitola Book Café is holding a fund drive in order to stay in business and...
by scribe | Jul 4, 2012 | ruminations, tournaments
After two blog posts about my best tournaments ever, which were probably met with yawns and indifference by most of my readers, it occurred to me that it might be more entertaining to write about my worst tournaments ever. I don’t know about you, but I have a...
by scribe | Jul 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
I uncovered the following item that I should have included with my post from yesterday, “Ohio Memories”: the crosstable for the 1989 Roosevelt Open. There are lots of interesting things about this! Back in those pre-Internet days, you could order a...
by scribe | Jul 1, 2012 | games, people, positions, tournaments
As some of you might have noticed, I took a short break from blogging and from chess in general for the last two weeks. My wife and I went back to North Carolina and Virginia to see (respectively) her family and my family. It was our first trip together to the east...
