by scribe | Apr 13, 2012 | current news, literature, people
What do you call it when your former student does something so insanely wonderful that you just want to tell the world, “That’s my student!”? And what do you call it when HER students do something so insanely wonderful that… etc.? I call it...
by scribe | Apr 11, 2012 | Chess Lecture, endings, games, positions, tournaments
I’d like to show you my longest and hardest-fought game from last weekend’s tournament in Reno. I have decided that I won’t give a lecture on it, partly because it’s too long and partly because there are too many mistakes. But it is still a...
by scribe | Apr 9, 2012 | current news, tournaments
Louis Oosthuizen, I share your pain. The South African golfer nearly pulled off the most spectacular winning shot in golf history, holing a double eagle on the second hole in the Masters golf tournament. (Some people might mention Gene Sarazen’s double eagle in...
by scribe | Apr 8, 2012 | Chess Lecture, current news, tournaments
Just like the NCAA basketball tournament, the first annual Larry Evans Memorial had a lot of upsets early, but as the tournament wears on the cream rises to the top. The early Cinderella was Cameron Wheeler (2126), who defeated FM Viswesh Kameswaran (2319) and IM Eric...
by scribe | Apr 7, 2012 | current news, games, people, tournaments
You know you’re at a Jerry Weikel tournament when… Before round 1, he gets on the microphone and says, “You have just left the planet.” This invariably comes after he tells all the players to turn off their cell phones. He also tells us,...
by scribe | Apr 4, 2012 | off-topic, tournaments
This week I’ve made a few changes behind the scenes to “dana blogs chess,” which I hope will be mostly invisible to readers. As part of a re-design of my whole website, I’ve moved “dana blogs chess” to a new server and updated the...
by scribe | Mar 31, 2012 | Chess Lecture, endings, games, openings, positions
As promised in my last post, today I will show you some key positions from my epic battle with Freddy van der Meij in the Bryntse Gambit. The game was played online at GameKnot, with a time control of 3 days per move. I posted the PGN yesterday in the PGN viewer, so...
by scribe | Mar 30, 2012 | Chess Lecture, endings, games, openings
My last post, on the Bryntse Gambit, reminded me that I have a long unpaid debt to my blog readers. As I mentioned last time, I have not gotten a chance to play the Bryntse Gambit in a tournament since my game with IM David Pruess. However, I did get a chance to play...
by scribe | Mar 29, 2012 | Chess Lecture, games, literature, openings
I was very excited to see today that Tim Harding, a regular columnist at ChessCafe, has written an article (March 14, 2012) on the Bryntse Gambit! For any readers of this blog who don’t know their “dana blogs chess” history, the Bryntse Gambit is a...
by scribe | Mar 22, 2012 | Chess Lecture, current news
Yesterday my first lecture in a long time went up at www.chesslecture.com. It was called “Learn From Your Fellow Amateurs, Episode XXX: Good News, Bad News, Good News.” I got lots of positive feedback, both from people welcoming me back and also from...
