50 Years of Chess: Year 2

by | Sep 7, 2020 | chess clubs, games, literature, people, tournaments

As we move forward through the years, we come to an unexpectedly sad entry. It’s not that 1973 was a bad year. Quite the opposite! It was a great year, in which I played four tournaments, won three trophies, scored 14-6 (close to my best year ever), and advanced...

50 Years of Chess: Year 1

by | Sep 2, 2020 | endings, games, openings, tournaments

That was so much fun, let’s do it again! In my last post I started a year-by-year retrospective of my (almost) fifty years of tournament chess, with the year 1971. I called that Year Zero because I actually wasn’t quite into tournament chess yet. My chief...