by scribe | May 22, 2013 | positions, ruminations, tournaments
… and the reason I love it is that speed chess is ridiculously entertaining. … and the reason I hate it is that speed chess magnifies all of my worst tendencies. Both of these reason were on full display in a mind-boggling speed game that I played with...
by scribe | May 8, 2013 | games, positions, ruminations
In my last post I wrote about one of the most ubiquitous kinds of mistakes, in life as well as chess: the kind of mistake where you assume you know what is going on, and the assumption seems so obvious to you that you aren’t even aware of making it. Here’s...
by scribe | Mar 21, 2013 | current news, games, positions, tournaments
And then there were two. In round six of the Candidates Tournament, it became crystal clear who the two contenders are. Both Levon Aronian and Magnus Carlsen won their games today, and continue to share first place at 4½-1½. Meanwhile, their opposition has literally...
by scribe | Jan 26, 2013 | games, openings, people, positions, tournaments
I could write about my own recent games, but it’s so much more fun and interesting to write about Cailen’s adventures in the Class A section of the Golden State Open. First, I’d like to show you just the beginning of his last-round game. He went into...
by scribe | Nov 8, 2012 | endings, games, positions, tournaments
I’d like to talk today about a complex position from one of Linnea’s games last week in the U.S. Game/60 Championship. As Linnea was showing me the game, she played 27. … Rxb3+ almost instantaneously, as if there was no question about it. I got the...
