50 Years of Chess: Year 49

Photo taken at Mike Splane’s celebration of life, 9/4/2021 When Mike Splane asked me to play on his team (the Kolty Club team) at the 2020 U.S. Amateur Team West tournament, I enthusiastically said yes. He had been trying to get me to play on their team for...

50 Years of Chess: Year 48

The last five years of my retrospective are kind of hard to write because (a) they are so recent that anybody who has been following this blog has seen the games before; and (b) I also haven’t been playing much. One tournament in 2016, none in 2017, two in 2018,...