by scribe | Jan 31, 2013 | current news, people, ruminations
To my surprise (and pleasure), two non-chess-playing friends e-mailed me a link to the same New York Times article. Nicholas Kristof, a regular op-ed columnist and former Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote a column today about Elizabeth Spiegel and her national champion...
by scribe | Jan 15, 2013 | 2012 world championship, endings, games, off-topic, people, ruminations, tournaments
I had to miss a few days because of work, specifically a math conference in San Diego where I was invited to give a talk and do a book signing for The Universe in Zero Words. Unexpectedly, at the book signing I met a fellow chess player! I’ve mentioned Simon...
by scribe | Dec 12, 2012 | chess clubs, Chess Life, openings, positions, ruminations
Today’s post is a grab bag of topics… 1) The Aptos Library Chess Club has been a hopping place lately. Two weeks ago we had 23 kids, which forced us for the first time to use every single board and set in our collection. This week we had 16, I think. I...
by scribe | Dec 7, 2012 | Chess Life, current news, literature, people, ruminations
One of my favorite scenes in the documentary Brooklyn Castle, which I reviewed here recently, was the one where (spoiler alert!) Rochelle Ballantyne won the national girls’ high school championship on tiebreak, earning herself a scholarship to the University of...
by scribe | Nov 29, 2012 | chess clubs, current news, literature, people, ruminations
Yesterday I finally had my chance to go to San Francisco and watch the movie Brooklyn Castle, which I have already blogged about a couple times before (here and here). There are a few spoilers below — hopefully small ones — and I will flag them for any...
