by scribe | Feb 13, 2020 | chess clubs, games, positions, ruminations
I’ve got lots of candidates for the worst game ever played against the computer, but this morning I played one that has to be near the top of the list. I went from much better to checkmated in the span of six moves! I was White, Fritz 17 was Black, it was set at...
by scribe | Feb 3, 2020 | current news, endings, positions, PRO Chess League
For the California Unicorns, this week’s PRO Chess League match was one that they were expected to win. Their opponents, the Brazil Capybaras, were in seventh place in the Western Conference, and they don’t have any super-GMs. Quite a change from last...
by scribe | Jan 26, 2020 | current news, games, ruminations
Now I have both of my new toys — my new laptop and my new edition of Fritz 17 (together with ChessBase), so I am back to normal for blogging purposes. I might as well use this post for a quick review of Fritz 17. I have to say that the change I was looking...
by scribe | Jan 18, 2020 | chess clubs, current news, off-topic
Somewhat belatedly, this is my first post of 2020, so I wish a happy New Year to all of you who are (like me) about two weeks behind. The main explanation for the absence of new posts is that I spent ten days in Hawaii! For vacation? You might wonder. No, in fact I...
by scribe | Mar 9, 2014 | games, openings, positions, tournaments
Continuing my series of posts of favorite games from the Santa Cruz Cup… The third Santa Cruz Cup, in 2005, was a really weird one for me. I finished first, but only because of unbelievable blunders by my two main rivals, Ilan Benjamin and Juande Perea....
