by scribe | Jan 28, 2016 | games, people, positions, ruminations
Today’s trivia: Name a person who has been the chess champion of both Connecticut and Norway. Today’s quiz: Black to play and win. Position after 28. Qe4. Black to move. FEN: 1r5k/p1pn2p1/1p1p4/5N2/2PPQ3/1K1R3P/P4q1B/6n1 b – – 0 28 The quiz and...
by scribe | Aug 14, 2014 | current news, tournaments
The last round of the Chess Olympiad is in the books and, no surprise, China won. They beat Poland, 3-1, making any discussion of tiebreaks academic. As I mentioned in my previous entry, they completed the event with only one loss out of 44 games, a truly dominating...
by scribe | Oct 1, 2012 | literature, off-topic, ruminations
Of course everybody on the Internet uses Google for search. But I like some of the parts of the Google site that you might not visit as often. I did a blog post earlier about the Ngram viewer, which shows you the frequency of various words and word combinations over...
by scribe | Dec 10, 2011 | current news, tournaments
I know you’re all wondering why I haven’t posted here for a few days. Right? You’re all wondering that, aren’t you? Well, the short answer is that I had a big deadline to meet this week which has basically devoured all my free time. But now...
by scribe | Mar 2, 2009 | chess clubs, games, openings, people
I’m back from my two-week trip from Norway! It was a business trip, of course, so I didn’t get to play nearly as much chess as I had hoped, but nevertheless I have a few pictures to show you. First, here is a quiz. Can any of you identify what famous chess...
