by scribe | Mar 26, 2020 | 2020 world championship, current news, ruminations, tournaments
This morning FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich announced that he was suspending the 2020 Candidates Tournament, which had just reached the halfway mark. As most or all of my readers probably know already, this was the tournament to select a challenger to Magnus Carlsen...
by scribe | Mar 23, 2020 | 2020 world championship, current news, positions, ruminations, tournaments
It was a good news, bad news kind of day for Ian Nepomniachtchi and for chess fans everywhere. On one hand, he won his second straight game and put more distance between himself and his pursuers. He beat Ding Liren in a very solid Ruy Lopez where Ding’s position...
by scribe | Nov 30, 2018 | current news, people, tournaments
I will be brief because I’m still in some shock. I got on Facebook this evening and read several posts saying that Ruth Haring, former USCF president and current US zonal representative, has passed away. The news is also confirmed by a release from the USCF and...
by scribe | Jan 16, 2016 | current news, ruminations
Can television, chess, and the Olympics ever mix? This is a question I was asking myself after I watched a program called “Curling Night in America” on the NBC Sports Network last night. People sometimes call curling “chess on ice.” The...
by scribe | Sep 2, 2015 | Chess Life, current news, people
Last year I wrote a post called The Seventh Samurai, in which I talked about the fact that the U.S. had seven people on the list of top 100 juniors (under age 21) in the world. Six of them were players I had heard about, but one name was unfamiliar. Akshat Chandra is...
