by scribe | Oct 30, 2010 | current news, endings, games, people
I think a lot of people, even in the U.S., may not have heard of Steven Zierk before this week. He made some waves when he upset GM Loek Van Wely last year in Reno, and he played on the San Francisco Mechanics team in the U.S. Chess League for the last couple of...
by scribe | Oct 28, 2010 | current news, US Chess League
Everyone is delirious in San Francisco this morning after the San Francisco Giants took the first game of the (baseball) World Series over the Texas Rangers, 11-7. Everyone, that is, except for the chess players. Last night the San Francisco Mechanics lost to the...
by scribe | Oct 24, 2010 | Chess Lecture, people
I’ve been taking a break from chess, so you haven’t seen much analysis here recently, but this weekend I did have some friends (Gjon and Cailen) over to my house for some videos and speed chess. We watched one of Jesse Kraai’s recent videos on...
by scribe | Oct 23, 2010 | off-topic, people
What does it take to get a statue made of you? Apparently, just being world champion is not enough. Just for fun, I did a search this morning for statues of the chess world champions — not counting gravestones — and I only came up with three. First, there...
by scribe | Oct 15, 2010 | current news, ruminations, tournaments
These are four words that I never thought I would get a chance to say. But now the US Chess Federation has gone and changed the rules! As many of you probably know, the USCF used to have a Life Master title that was based on rating: if you played 300 games with your...
