by scribe | Sep 13, 2016 | current news, people, tournaments
Did I call it or what?! You might recall that in yesterday’s post I wrote about the upcoming U.S.-Canada match: I think the one weak link for Canada is board one. Evgeny Bareev is a strong GM for sure, but board one is a really tough assignment and he has only...
by scribe | Sep 12, 2016 | current news, tournaments
Surprisingly, my predictions yesterday were not too far off the mark. In the penultimate round of the 2016 Olympiad, the U.S. and Ukraine both “took care of business” as I predicted. However, I was slightly wrong about Russia. I predicted that they would...
by scribe | Sep 10, 2016 | current news, people, tournaments
September 10, 2016. That’s the day when both American teams, the men (or “open”) and women, were tied for first place at the Chess Olympiad. Does anybody with a better knowledge of chess history know whether this has ever happened before, with so few...
by scribe | Aug 7, 2016 | current news, games, openings, positions
I was delighted to read all the anecdotes and stories that my last post (on chess humor) provoked. Coincidentally, last night I saw a post by Sam Shankland on Facebook that struck me as pretty humorous too. Sam showed the following game from Round 1 of his recent...
by scribe | Jun 11, 2016 | Chess Lecture, current news, games, people, positions
Recently it seems a lot of people are passing away in chess… not only big names like Viktor Korchnoi, but also medium-sized names like Frank Berry, who died this week at age 70. I didn’t know Frank Berry really well, but he and his brother Jim were always...
