by scribe | Nov 30, 2013 | current news, people, tournaments
Yesterday at the California Class Warfare tournament I had a chance to talk with Taylor McCreary and her father Michael, who are frequent participants in Bay Area tournament. Taylor told me some exciting news, which is that she has qualified to play in the World Youth...
by scribe | Nov 25, 2013 | Chess Lecture, current news, people, tournaments
I just had a conversation fifteen minutes ago with my next-door neighbor Dave, who has never shown any interest in chess previously but had heard something somewhere about a new world champion. This conversation reminded me of an obvious fact: more than anything else,...
by scribe | Nov 21, 2013 | current news, openings, ruminations, tournaments
Pigs could still fly, dodos could still walk the Earth, and Viswanathan Anand could still save his world championship match against Magnus Carlsen. But I wouldn’t bet on it! Carlsen now leads the best-of-twelve match by 6-3, and needs only one more draw to...
by scribe | Nov 10, 2013 | off-topic
This morning, as I was lying in my hotel room in London waiting for the sun to come up, I started thinking for the N-th time about the upcoming Doctor Who 50th anniversary special. For anybody who is not interested in science fiction, not interested in television, not...
by scribe | Nov 9, 2013 | current news, people
Because the first game of the world championship match doesn’t give us much to talk about today, I can catch up on one important piece of news from earlier this week: Elizabeth Spiegel (née Vicary) gave birth to a baby boy! His name is Noah. If you’d like...
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