by scribe | Nov 24, 2018 | 2018 world championship, endings, games, people
Grandmasters will probably describe today’s eleventh game of the World Championship Match as “a boring draw.” However, I disagree! I think that this was a perfect game for introductory to intermediate players to study. The game was replete with...
by scribe | Sep 16, 2018 | games, literature, positions, ruminations
Sometime in my early twenties, I read Alexander Kotov’s famous book Think Like a Grandmaster, which revolutionized how chess players think about thinking. From Kotov I learned the idea of making a list of candidate moves, and analyzing each move once and only...
by scribe | Apr 24, 2018 | chess clubs, games, people, positions
At Mike Splane’s chess party last weekend, Gary Kelly showed an exceptionally interesting game that he played, I believe, last week at the Kolty Chess Club. We started in the following position: Position after 0. … Bd8. White to move. FEN:...
by scribe | Apr 21, 2018 | games, openings, positions
So far this year, I haven’t written a single post about a game against the computer. I’ve been avoiding that on purpose, because I overdid it last year. But two of the things that give me the most satisfaction in life are beating the computer and beating...
by scribe | Apr 1, 2018 | endings, games, openings, people
Happy April Fool’s Day! I really am going to show you my game with Magnus, only it isn’t the Magnus you’re thinking about. In 1995 I played in the World Open, and for once it kind of lived up to its name. In round one, I played against Leonid...
