by scribe | Oct 26, 2013 | Chess Lecture, literature, people, positions, tournaments, US Chess League
Last night I went with Gjon Feinstein to attend Jesse Kraai’s book reading and signing at the NorCal House of Chess in Fremont, California. It was great to see Jesse again after three years. He looked trimmer, has grown a beard and now looks more like a starving...
by scribe | Oct 16, 2013 | games, people, positions
At Mike Splane’s latest chess party, on Sunday, Richard Koepcke showed us a game that involved a “hanging pawns” formation in the center, where the owner of the hanging pawns did not play actively enough, let them get blockaded, and eventually lost....
by scribe | Oct 14, 2013 | Chess Lecture, current news, games, literature, people
Lisa, Jesse Kraai’s Great American Chess Novel, is now available through Amazon.com! Even more than the Great American Chess Novel, it’s the Greater San Francisco Bay Chess Novel. Astute readers will notice several local personalities in the novel —...
by scribe | Oct 7, 2013 | Chess Lecture, current news, people, tournaments
After a brief sojourn into the world of mathematics, “dana blogs chess” now returns to the subject it’s supposed to be about! Today I have two news items that came in the e-mail within the past week. 1) Jesse Kraai has finished his Great American...
by scribe | Oct 2, 2013 | off-topic
[The following entry was originally posted on 29 September. This is the last of my posts on the Heidelberg Laureate Forum. For chess fans, I will return to our regular subject matter in my next post. Thanks for your patience while I was hanging out in math-land!] Two...
