by scribe | Aug 6, 2010 | games, positions, ruminations, tournaments
So I was thinking that I really didn’t want to write this blog entry. Nobody wants to read my moaning and groaning about how badly I’m playing, right? Losing is boring. People only care about the winners.But then it occurred to me that people who really...
by scribe | Aug 4, 2010 | current news, endings, games, positions, tournaments
It’s still too early to say much about how the tournament is going — one one round finished out of nine! But Cailen, Thadeus and I were all disappointed in different ways by our first games. I was paired against a class B player named Ken Ivens. Once again...
by scribe | Jul 29, 2010 | Crestbook, people, tournaments, translations
Please check out my translation of the third and final part of the Alexander Khalifman interview on Crestbook! If you missed the first two parts, you can also find them here and here. Khalifman was the winner of the 1999 FIDE World Championship knockout tournament in...
