The Fame Phenomenon

To my surprise (and pleasure), two non-chess-playing friends e-mailed me a link to the same New York Times article. Nicholas Kristof, a regular op-ed columnist and former Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote a column today about Elizabeth Spiegel and her national champion...

The wrong piece sac

I could write about my own recent games, but it’s so much more fun and interesting to write about Cailen’s adventures in the Class A section of the Golden State Open. First, I’d like to show you just the beginning of his last-round game. He went into...

Lights Out!

Last night Cailen Melville had a chess gathering at his house for the first time, which I went to along with Gjon Feinstein, Thadeus Frei, and Yosi Cohen. His parents are away, so he had the whole house to himself, and it was quite pleasant, with lots of space and a...

Cute kitten videos 2

You didn’t think I was serious when I said in my last post that I could build traffic to my chess blog with more kitten videos? Well, I wasn’t serious either. But just in case, here are some recently uploaded selections from my YouTube channel,...