by scribe | May 31, 2020 | current news, off-topic, ruminations
Thanks to Cathy Perlmutter for the groovy face mask! There will be a short-lived pause (which you won’t even notice) in this blog as I de-chessify. The reason is that I’ve gotten entirely too much sucked into playing against Fritz on my computer. My wife...
by scribe | May 23, 2020 | games, positions
I’m glad that I got a couple of comments on my last post, “What’s the Best Move?”, saying that my readers found the positions just as hard as I did. It makes me feel better, because most of them were positions where I was playing against the...
by scribe | May 9, 2020 | Chess Life, endings, games, positions
Old-timers like me can remember when every issue of Chess Life came with a Larry Evans column called “What’s the Best Move?” Evans would give you positions with three choices of possible moves. The idea, I think, came from a book of the same name...
