by scribe | Nov 8, 2012 | endings, games, positions, tournaments
I’d like to talk today about a complex position from one of Linnea’s games last week in the U.S. Game/60 Championship. As Linnea was showing me the game, she played 27. … Rxb3+ almost instantaneously, as if there was no question about it. I got the...
by scribe | Feb 13, 2012 | Chess Lecture, endings, people, positions
Last week I said I was going to show you two interesting endgames. I want to keep my promise, but the second endgame I’m going to show you is not the one I originally intended! The change in plans is because I’m going to lecture on that one for...
by scribe | Jan 23, 2011 | games, openings, people
Last night I got together with some of my regular chess friends, Gjon, Cailen, and Rich Flacco, along with Mike Splane, who came “over the hill” from San Jose. Mike told me that he is a regular reader of this blog, so I would like to feature a recent game...
by | May 4, 2009 | games, people, tournaments
Here’s a game that I wrote about last fall, but didn’t have a chance to analyze until yesterday. I do eventually analyze all of my tournament games, but sometimes it takes a few months (or years) for me to get to them! My opponent in this game was Luke...
