by scribe | Sep 18, 2013 | off-topic, people
Why should sighted people have all the fun? Kyle Rector, one of the young participants in this year’s Heidelberg Laureate Forum, doesn’t think they should. As part of her dissertation research on “eyes-free technology” at the University of Washington, with...
by scribe | Sep 17, 2013 | Chess Lecture, literature, openings
At Mike Splane’s latest chess party, on Sunday, I saw Richard Koepcke lugging around a ginormous chess book that was about the size of a phone book, and I asked him what it was. To my surprise, it was a new book on the King’s Gambit! I refer to John...
by scribe | Sep 13, 2013 | off-topic
Put away those chess boards and chess books! It is now time for some Truly Edifying Entertainment. Yes, we have another video of my cat Max, doing various dog impersonations and showing us that Cats Can Fetch, Too. More Max videos, as always, at...
by scribe | Sep 11, 2013 | chess clubs, games, positions
I don’t usually play against the kids in the Aptos Library Chess Club, because the games are rarely satisfying in any way. Basically I just take material and win, because most of the students are not on a level yet where they know about keeping their pieces...
by scribe | Sep 9, 2013 | endings, positions, tournaments
In the comments to my latest post there was some interesting discussion of the “lost art of the post-mortem.” However, I was fortunate enough this weekend to have a delayed postmortem of two of my games from the CalChess State Championship. In this case...
