by scribe | Feb 16, 2014 | Chess Lecture, endings, positions, tournaments
Today Gjon Feinstein and I were going over a wonderful game between Wei Yi and John Bryant from the recent Bay Area International, a game that I’m planning to lecture on for ChessLecture. There’s one variation that I wasn’t quite sure how to...
by scribe | Feb 15, 2014 | current news, off-topic, Uncategorized
There was a period of about 24 hours when comments were disabled on my blog. What happened is that somebody figured out a way to send out spam that appeared to be from my blog. To get to the root of the problem the comments had to be disabled for a while. The problem...
by scribe | Feb 13, 2014 | games, ruminations
The title is a question that comes up in every single chess game. While we tend to pay more attention in our studies to brilliant tactics — sacrifices, forks, pins, removal of the guard, etc. — many games are won or lost by the humble skill of exchanging...
by scribe | Feb 5, 2014 | current news, games, people
… But some speed chess games stick with you more than others. I just found out via Facebook that there’s a video on YouTube of a 5-minute game that Vinay Bhat played against Magnus Carlsen during the latter’s visit to the Bay Area on January 14....
