by scribe | Aug 9, 2010 | Chess Life, current news, people, tournaments
As fans of American Idol and other reality-TV shows know, the “results show” is an interminably long episode each week where the producers take a ridiculously long time to tell you something they could have told you in 30 seconds — which of the...
by scribe | Aug 25, 2009 | ruminations
Time for another reader poll! You guys helped me decide to play in the U.S. Senior Open instead of the U.S. Open, and now maybe you can help me make another decision. While I was researching the rules about National Master titles for an earlier post, I came upon a...
by scribe | Dec 10, 2007 | chess clubs
One of the things I did not anticipate when I started this blog was how international it would become! We have regular readers from Denmark, Spain, and France, plus one person who spent a significant amount of time in England. And who knows what other countries might...
