by scribe | Jul 3, 2008 | chess clubs, people
Man, this blog is turning into one big obituary page. Yesterday, I heard from a friend that Gerhard Ringel had died. Gerhard has been an active player in Santa Cruz chess for years, since long before I moved here. I mentioned him before in this post, where I described...
by scribe | Apr 28, 2008 | literature, ruminations
Just a heads up to all of you who follow the comments on this blog: Andres Hortillosa’s second column is now up on Chessville.com. You can click here to go straight to it. Andres writes in detail about the Purdy system for avoiding blunders, which he has...
by scribe | Apr 25, 2008 | chess clubs, games, people, ruminations
Last night I went to chess club at Borders, for the first time since they moved their closing time to an hour earlier. This change has forced us to speed up the time controls, so that we now play three 15-minute games instead of three 25-minute games. From what I was...
by scribe | Apr 6, 2008 | games, openings, positions, tournaments
So far I have had time to thoroughly analyze only two of my games from the U.S. Championship Qualifier, and I’m part way through the third. I had an unusual number (by my standards) of very interesting and competitive games, and I think that I will eventually...
by scribe | Mar 2, 2008 | endings, games, tournaments
Hi chess fans! There are many places on the Web where you can read about the super-GM tournament in Linares, but only here can you read about the Santa Cruz Cup! Today we “almost” finished the round-robin portion of our tournament, but there is one game...
