by scribe | Feb 6, 2012 | endings, games, openings, people, positions
I’m going to have a couple posts this week about interesting endgame positions I’ve run into recently. One of them is from a blitz (8-minute) game I played last night against Gjon Feinstein, and the other is from a tournament game between two 1400-level...
by scribe | Jan 8, 2012 | games, positions, tournaments
I’ve just spent about five hours analyzing the finishing position of my game with Emory Tate from last weekend. Here’s the position: Black to move. White (IM Tate) has just played 24. Ra2 and offered a draw. What should Black do? Let’s ask the...
by scribe | Oct 17, 2011 | chess clubs, endings
This weekend I played (and botched) a pretty cool endgame. Here’s the scene: I’m playing tandem chess at one of Mike Splane’s chess parties. I’m Black, and my teammate is Richard Koepcke, a National Master. Our opponents are Gjon Feinstein...
by scribe | Jul 6, 2011 | games, openings, positions
This must be Computer Chess Month for me, because I’m going to write my third entry in a row about that topic. This afternoon I played another interesting … no, change that, mind-bending game against Shredder 12. This one I lost on time, but I had kind of...
by scribe | Jul 2, 2011 | current news, tournaments
According to an article at ChessVibes, the International Computer Games Association has disqualified Rybka from the present and all future World Computer Chess Championships, and has also voided its world titles from 2007-2010. The reason is that Rybka was deemed, by...
