by scribe | Dec 16, 2008 | games, people, tournaments
The tournament may have drawn players from all over the world, but the best game so far of the Berkeley International was the round two collision between two housemates, David Pruess and Jesse Kraai. Here’s how the action went down: David Pruess — Jesse...
by scribe | Dec 15, 2008 | Chess Lecture, games, people, tournaments
 Yesterday the Berkeley International 2008 chess tournament got started, with a field of 18 players including six grandmasters. Although I am not playing in the tournament (my current FIDE rating being too low to qualify), it isn’t every day that an...
by scribe | Nov 28, 2008 | games, tournaments
This weekend I’m playing in the Bay Area Chess Thanksgiving Festival (see www.bayareachess.com). This is the second tournament I’ve played in that was organized by Salman Azhar; I also played in the Memorial Day Festival earlier this year. He found a much...
by scribe | Aug 29, 2008 | ruminations, tournaments
As I mentioned in my last post, my next big tournament is coming up this weekend — the CalChess Labor Day Open — and I have not had time to do any real chess preparation. But last night I did some psychological preparation, and I’d like to talk a...
by scribe | Apr 21, 2008 | Chess Lecture, games, positions
I just finished watching Jesse Kraai’s second lecture on one of my games from Tucson, the game with Jacob Berger that I wrote about here. I found this one slightly less satisfying than the first, but it’s no fault of Jesse’s. The way I played the...
