by scribe | Mar 16, 2013 | current news, people, positions, tournaments
In today’s second round of the Candidates Tournament, Levon Aronian and Teimour Radjabov scored the first two wins (against Gelfand and Ivanchuk, respectively) to move into first place. Magnus Carlsen continued his drawing ways, splitting the point against...
by scribe | Mar 15, 2013 | current news, people, tournaments
In the first round of the Candidates’ Tournament in London, all four games were drawn. I watched the last hour of the first round on ChessTV, which is broadcasting the games live in Russian with commentary from our friend GM Sergey Shipov and GM Genna Sosonko....
by scribe | Mar 14, 2013 | literature, off-topic, people
If you enjoy chess, math, puns, and Isaac Asimov — and really, who doesn’t? — then you might enjoy this book review at Goodreads. I’ll get you started (but I won’t post the whole thing, in order to respect copyright): The Biggest Lie...
by scribe | Mar 12, 2013 | Crestbook, current news, people, tournaments
If you’re interested in world championship chess, the place to be for the rest of the month is London, where the 2013 World Championship Candidates tournament will be held from March 15 to April 1 (with tiebreaks, which I devoutly hope will not be necessary,...
by scribe | Mar 5, 2013 | literature, positions
This morning I had a really cool puzzle idea: Can you create a chess version of rock-paper-scissors? To state the puzzle more precisely, I need to use the old-fashioned English Descriptive Notation, rather than algebraic. The advantage of English Descriptive —...
