by scribe | Jun 14, 2012 | games, people, positions
Yesterday I got together with Gjon Feinstein, Cailen Melville and Thadeus Frei for some skittles chess and analysis. Cailen showed us one of his recent games. As so often happens, we got completely sidetracked by analyzing variations that never happened. It usually...
by scribe | Jun 10, 2011 | games, positions
Today I’m going to write about yet another team chess game. This is one that I played last night, playing Black with Thadeus Frei against Cailen Melville and Gjon Feinstein. We were using new experimental rules. The time control was 7 minutes for both sides, and...
by scribe | Dec 29, 2010 | games, openings, people
On Monday I got together with my friends Gjon, Thadeus, and Cailen for an evening of chess. As we often do, we ended up playing consultation chess — two players to a side, with the players either discussing the moves (which Gjon prefers) or alternating moves...
by scribe | Aug 30, 2010 | Chess Lecture, positions
It’s been a couple weeks since I posted here, so I feel as if I owe you something extra-special to make up for my absence. I’d like to tell you about a practice session that I had a week ago with the “usual suspects” — National Master...
by scribe | Aug 8, 2010 | current news, endings, games, openings, positions, tournaments
The penultimate round of the 2010 US Open was a very strange one for me. The last two rounds are being played on a one-a-day schedule, so I had to wait around all day (until 7:30 pm) to play my game. And then it took all of 14 minutes to play! My opponent blundered a...
