by scribe | May 14, 2016 | chess clubs, current news, off-topic, people, ruminations, tournaments
First, apologies for my long silence… more than two weeks! I know that there isn’t anything else worth reading on the Internet except for my blog, so I know you guys were suffering. 😉 This morning I had an interesting experience, being interviewed by a...
by scribe | Aug 1, 2014 | current news, people, positions, tournaments
A few years ago, Santa Cruz seemed to have more good players hiding in the woodwork than any other city its size. But this week, one of them has come out of hiding in a big way! I refer to James Tarjan, a grandmaster and frequent contender for the U.S. championship...
by scribe | Jul 29, 2013 | Chess Lecture, off-topic
First a little bit of chess news in a mostly off-topic post: ChessLecture now has a YouTube page, so if any of you have ever wondered what the lectures are like, you can now watch a few (well, only one at this point, but I’m sure there will soon be more) without...
by scribe | Sep 24, 2012 | chess clubs, people, positions
One of the most common mistakes in chess, from the beginning level all the way up to accomplished players, is to think that just because you can capture a piece, you should capture it. Perhaps we could call this “the checkers fallacy,” because in checkers...
by scribe | Jun 1, 2012 | current news, off-topic
Now that the world championship match is over, the confetti has been cleaned up and things are getting back to normal, I want to tell you about a non-chess topic that is close to my heart. One of Santa Cruz County’s independent booksellers, the Capitola Book...
