by scribe | Dec 17, 2008 | games, positions, tournaments
Day three of the Berkeley International 2008 saw the grandmasters finally flexing their muscles a little bit. Two of the early surprises, Marc Esserman and Dale Haessel, were taken down by their GM opponents, Izoria and Sharavdorj. Grandmasters Josh Friedel and Vinay...
by scribe | Apr 30, 2008 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life, games, literature
… or double your misery, or whatever. I now simultaneously have an article in Chess Life (which arrived in the mail yesterday) and a lecture on ChessLecture. As longtime readers of this blog know, the Chess Life article has been in the works since last fall....
by scribe | Mar 25, 2008 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life, games, tournaments
I was just playing over one of David Vigorito’s games in the recently concluded Foxwoods Open, and darned if he didn’t pull out the Hook and Ladder Trick! That makes him the second ChessLecturer I know of to make use of it. (The first one was Jesse Kraai,...
by scribe | Feb 28, 2008 | Chess Lecture, games, positions, tournaments
If I ever write that book of amateur games told in “story” fashion (or “melodramatic,” a word some of our readers took issue with), here is one that I will have to include. This was the game between Dan Burkhard (White) and Jeff Mallett (Black)...
by scribe | Jan 15, 2008 | Chess Lecture, games, ruminations
Last week ChessLecture announced my new series, “Learn from Your Fellow Amateurs,” in which I will pick one listener-submitted game each month and lecture about it. So far I’ve gotten twelve submissions, which I think is a pretty good number —...
