by scribe | Feb 5, 2013 | chess clubs, people, positions
Amazing chess club today at the Aptos Library! First, we had 22 kids and once again had to use just about every set in the house. And it isn’t just that we are getting more kids in the past; it also seems to me as if they understand chess better. The quality of...
by scribe | Sep 30, 2010 | chess clubs, literature, positions, ruminations
While the rest of the chess world is focused on the FIDE elections and on the World Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, and American chess is focused on the US Chess League, I’ve been enjoying a chess break. No study, no tournaments, no ChessLectures (with...
by scribe | May 25, 2010 | current news, positions, tournaments
The U.S. Championship is now over, and the winner is Gata Kamsky. In the four-man playoff, he and Yury Shulman tied with 2-1 scores (each one had one victory — Shulman against Nakamura, and Kamsky against Onischuk). They played a regular time control playoff...
by scribe | Sep 2, 2008 | games, positions, tournaments
Here is the finish of one of my better games from this weekend’s CalChess Labor Day Championship. It’s round four, and I’m playing the White pieces against yet another teen-age Class A hotshot, whose name is Sreekar Jasthi. (White to move.) As you...
