by scribe | Jan 9, 2012 | off-topic, people, tournaments
So you all must be wondering, “Why were you, a chess blogger living in the San Francisco Bay area, not at the Northern California International chess tournament last week?” Unfortunately, this tournament always seems to conflict with the Joint Mathematics...
by scribe | Nov 7, 2011 | off-topic, people, ruminations
A few weeks ago I got a wonderful surprise in my e-mail. A reader named Edson José Cortiano, who lives in Brazil, sent me several chess cartoons that he has drawn, and he has given me permission to post them in my blog. I have to apologize that my blog is not ideally...
by scribe | Aug 3, 2011 | current news, off-topic
In a recent post, I mentioned that October 9 is National Chess Day in the U.S. Alas, in my never-ending quest to provide you accurate and timely information in this blog, I now have to correct myself. According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Senate voted...
by scribe | Jul 21, 2011 | current news, people, tournaments, translations
This morning I was browsing the Internet to see what is going on in the chess world. Quite a lot, actually. The headline events are the Biel chess festival in Switzerland, where Magnus Carlsen is leading the grandmaster tournament after three rounds, and the World...
by scribe | Oct 12, 2010 | off-topic
As you know, I don’t do off-topic entries very often, so I hope that I can be forgiven for an off-topic entry now and then. I’m trying to keep this blog going, with reduced chess contentâ„¢, while taking a little bit of a break from the game. Last week I...
