Back in the Saddle!

by | May 30, 2018 | current news, games, positions, tournaments

This summer I’m going to spend three days a week in Berkeley, which gives me the opportunity for the first time to play in the Tuesday Night Marathon at the Mechanics Institute in San Francisco. I’ve wanted to play in this event for twenty years, but never...

A Dispatch From the Candy Factory

by | May 27, 2018 | current news, people, tournaments

Do you remember the old I Love Lucy episode where Lucy and Ethel get jobs in a candy factory? They set up behind a conveyor belt that brings them the candies, and they are just supposed to wrap each one and put it back on the conveyor belt. Easy-peasy. Then the...

Invitation to Free Chess Lecture

by | May 21, 2018 | Chess Lecture, current news, openings

Things are calming down on the book front, and I am going to move gradually back to chess in this blog. As many readers know, I used to record lectures regularly for a website called ChessLecture. I decided to stop a few years ago. Not coincidentally, it was right...

On Co-Authorship

by | May 18, 2018 | current news, literature, off-topic, ruminations

One of my readers (Dan) asked if I could write a little bit about the process of co-writing a book. I’m happy to oblige! First, how did Judea and I get in touch in the first place? A lot of people have asked this. The long version of the story is on my main web...