by scribe | Jul 7, 2010 | Chess Lecture, Crestbook, off-topic, people
I’ve kind of hit a momentary lull in things to write about here. My latest translation for Crestbook, part two of the Alexander Khalifman interview, will probably go up early next week. The reason for the delay is that Khalifman has asked to read over the...
by scribe | Nov 10, 2009 | openings, positions, US Chess League
… All the live-long day! (Sorry about the reference to a nineteenth-century folk song that is probably best forgotten.) Anyway, Michael Goeller posted a comment a week ago that set me off on another serious binge of Caro-Kann study. He pointed out this post in...
by | Jun 26, 2009 | Chess Lecture, people, ruminations
Last weekend David Vigorito, aka “Fluffy,” one of my co-conspirators at ChessLecture, got married. Mark Ginsburg has pictures in his blog, and he mentions several prominent New England chess players who were at the ceremony. I wonder if chess sets were...
by scribe | Jan 2, 2009 | Chess Lecture, games, openings
It’s long past time for me to continue my series on the Bird (or, more properly, the Blackburne) Variation of the Ruy Lopez. International Master Mark Ginsburg finally gave me the motivation that I needed, by writing in his blog the following comment: For...
by scribe | Jan 1, 2009 | Chess Lecture, off-topic, openings, people, tournaments
Happy new year! On this first morning of 2009, I decided to take a walk around the blogs to see what the neighbors are up to. Michael (fpawn) Aigner writes about the Pan-Am Intercollegiate Championship, at which Stanford finished third. The Pan-Am should really have...
