Another Excellent Training Game

In recent weeks, as I mentioned before, I have been playing a series of training games against one of my students from the Aptos Chess Club, Atlee, who I think is about a 1500-rated player. Given the disparity between our ratings it’s no surprise that I have won...

Life in the Genius Factory

Today I found out that my lifetime total of International Masters defeated had increased by one… and I didn’t even have to lift a finger! The catch is — as everyone knows — that the best time to defeat a chess genius is when they are still...