by scribe | Apr 30, 2013 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life, current news, literature
A while ago I sent in a submission to Chess Life for their column “My Best Move,” which appears on the last page of every issue. In this column, famous and semi-famous players share their favorite moves from their entire chess careers. I felt a little bit...
by scribe | Apr 24, 2013 | Chess Lecture, current news, people
I didn’t even notice it until this morning, but ChessLecture hit a pretty big milestone three weeks ago — we now have more than two thousand recorded lectures! As of today (April 24) there are 2015, in fact. The two thousandth lecture was a very...
by scribe | Apr 22, 2013 | current news, off-topic
I know most of my readers don’t come here for cute kitten videos … but you get them anyway! At least this one has some chess involved (as you’ll see beginning about 1:25 in the video). You can also watch it on YouTube if you prefer. The gray kitten...
by scribe | Apr 19, 2013 | current news, people, ruminations
This week TIME magazine published its annual list of “the 100 most influential people in the world,” and guess who was on it? Oh, I guess the title of this post gave it away. Magnus Carlsen made the list, and got a nice one-paragraph bio from Garry...
by scribe | Apr 18, 2013 | current news, off-topic, people, tournaments
On my recent trip, I was surprised when a friend asked me if I had heard of Webster University and their chess coach, a woman from “somewhere in Eastern Europe.” In fact, I had just read the Chess Life article about the Pan-Am Intercollegiate tournament...
