by scribe | May 29, 2010 | current news, games, tournaments
Day two of the Chicago Open went a lot better for me than the first day. I felt as if I played good, creative, and very substantive games. I won the first one against a class A player named Bora Yagiz, and lost the second against a FIDE Master, Adnan Kobas. Really the...
by scribe | May 7, 2010 | 2010 world championship, endings, games
The tenth game of the world championship match could have been Topalov’s chance to break through and place Anand in an almost untenable position. Anand lost the thread in the middlegame and drifted into an inferior endgame, with a bishop and knight against...
by | May 19, 2009 | endings, games
Today is my 20th wedding anniversary, and Kay and I are going to celebrate by leaving (tomorrow) for a five-day trip to Hawaii. We will stay on Kauai, the northernmost of the Hawaiian islands, which everyone tells us is the most beautiful and least touristy of the...
