by scribe | Jan 18, 2017 | games, openings, positions
Yesterday I wasted a ton of time playing against Shredder on my computer, and losing game after game… Finally I “dumbed the computer down” to a rating of 1977 just so that I would have a chance to win. And what do you know? I got a chance to play...
by scribe | Oct 2, 2016 | games, positions
To be or not to be? To play e5 or f5? These are the great dilemmas in life. A few weeks ago I wrote about a game I played with Shredder where I had to make a decision between e5 and f5 at a crucial point (although as Gjon Feinstein pointed out, d4 was also really...
by scribe | Jun 20, 2016 | games, positions
Summer is traditionally the time for disaster movies, so in the spirit of the season I’d like to bring you one of my most embarrassing disasters against Shredder, the computer chess program. In fact, I might even do a whole series of them. Believe me, I have...
by scribe | Jun 2, 2016 | chess clubs, games, people, positions, Uncategorized
I really will write about what the title says, but first I want to show the photo of this weekend’s chess tournament that appeared in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Ryu Cirillo is at left, Shaashuat Shetty on the right, and slightly blurry on the left is Atlee...
by scribe | Mar 17, 2016 | current news, off-topic, people, ruminations
My ISP had server problems the last couple days, so I wasn’t able to post in a timely fashion and the “news” is no longer news. The match between Lee Sedol, the top human go player, and AlphaGo, a new computer program developed by Google, ended in a...
