50 Years of Chess: Year 6

by | Sep 26, 2020 | games, people, tournaments

Today we’re going to have a bit of deja deja vu vu: a game that I’ve already annotated once in my blog. It is still one of my favorites, and much more interesting than the other two games I have kept from 1977. But I will do it with one ground rule:...

50 Years of Chess: Year 5

by | Sep 20, 2020 | chess clubs, people, ruminations

Continuing our gallop through my personal chess history, we come to 1976. It was the year I turned eighteen — unfortunately, two days too late to vote in the Presidential election. It’s always been a little bit of a disappointment that the Twenty-Sixth...

50 Years of Chess: Year 4

by | Sep 18, 2020 | chess clubs, games, ruminations

Time flies! We’re now up to 1975, which was the year of my graduation from prep school (Phillips Academy) and the start of my freshman year in college (Swarthmore College). Another major event during the year was my family’s move from Indianapolis,...

50 Years of Chess: Year 3

by | Sep 13, 2020 | chess clubs, games, off-topic, ruminations

The year 1974 spread over my junior and senior years at prep school. As usual, I played no rated tournament chess during the school year, but managed to cram in four tournaments during the summer. It was again a good year for me, with a won-loss record of 16.5 –...