by scribe | Sep 30, 2009 | games, openings, positions, US Chess League
Today I’m going to discuss a game that I already wrote about in Blogging from 32,000 Feet, but this time we’ll look at it from the viewpoint of my opponent! Tim Rogalski e-mailed me and said that he had written up some annotations for our game that he is...
by scribe | Sep 7, 2009 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life, games, tournaments
On the final day of the U.S. Senior Open I completed my Summer of Disaster in appropriate style. In round 5 I played one of my favorite opening lines against Tim Rogalski: the Fritz Variation of the Two Knights Defense. As it turns out, Tim is an aficionado of the Two...
by scribe | Aug 2, 2009 | people, tournaments
Yesterday I played in the Silicon Valley Challenge #7, a four-round, game/60 tournament organized by Charles Sun, a strong junior player who also happens to be interested in directing tournaments. It’s a rare thing for juniors to be interested in directing, and...
by scribe | Apr 7, 2009 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life, endings, positions, tournaments
Note: If any of you are waiting for the follow-up to my previous post, “Chicken!” (Part 2), I am delaying that post for a few days because I decided I wanted to cover it in a ChessLecture first. So look for the thrilling conclusion to the chicken saga...
by scribe | Dec 2, 2008 | Chess Lecture, games, tournaments
As I promised, here is my game from round five of the Thanksgiving Festival. My opponent was Paul Richter, a class A player who looks to be 13 years old or so (but we know how bad I am at estimating ages). It’s just the sort of game that I love, with pieces...
