by scribe | Dec 13, 2013 | current news, people
It’s pretty cool when I am surfing a website that has nothing whatsoever to do with chess, and up pops an article that’s not only about chess but about somebody I know! I wrote about Luke Harmon-Vellotti here back in 2008, when I managed to defeat him in a...
by scribe | Oct 2, 2013 | off-topic
[The following entry was originally posted on 29 September. This is the last of my posts on the Heidelberg Laureate Forum. For chess fans, I will return to our regular subject matter in my next post. Thanks for your patience while I was hanging out in math-land!] Two...
by scribe | Sep 26, 2013 | off-topic
I wasn’t going to write about this. I was going to keep it to myself. But then Klaus Tschira, the chairperson of the HLF Foundation, mentioned it in his welcoming speech, and he didn’t mince words. “Some may feel there are not many mathematicians...
by scribe | Apr 18, 2013 | current news, off-topic, people, tournaments
On my recent trip, I was surprised when a friend asked me if I had heard of Webster University and their chess coach, a woman from “somewhere in Eastern Europe.” In fact, I had just read the Chess Life article about the Pan-Am Intercollegiate tournament...
by scribe | Mar 5, 2013 | literature, positions
This morning I had a really cool puzzle idea: Can you create a chess version of rock-paper-scissors? To state the puzzle more precisely, I need to use the old-fashioned English Descriptive Notation, rather than algebraic. The advantage of English Descriptive —...
