by scribe | Sep 1, 2021 | chess clubs, games, literature, tournaments
As the finish line of my retrospective approaches, we’re going to put on a “finishing kick” and cover three years in one post. The reason is that I have almost no games to show you from the years 2016 to 2018. I played in only one tournament, with 5...
by scribe | Sep 25, 2019 | 2020 world championship, current news, literature, off-topic
This afternoon I got some amazing news from my co-author: our book, The Book of Why, was mentioned in a new documentary series on Netflix! It’s in a show called “Inside Bill’s Brain.” If you watch the first episode, about 21 minutes in...
by scribe | May 15, 2019 | chess clubs, literature, off-topic, ruminations
Although I recently had a small reminder of the value of humility, today I’m going to soldier on in my immodest way and celebrate the first anniversary of one of the most exciting days of my life, the publication day of The Book of Why. Being a writer,...
by scribe | Apr 11, 2019 | literature, off-topic, ruminations
Coming to the U.K. on May 2! Last week I got a package in the mail from England: ten copies of the paperback edition of The Book of Why! The occasion brought to mind that goofy old Beatles song, Paperback Writer. In fact, I’ve been waiting quite a long time...
by scribe | Dec 21, 2018 | off-topic
This will be a short non-chess post, with some good news and some bad news. First, the bad news: A couple of my regular readers have e-mailed me within the past two weeks saying that when they googled my website, Google displayed it with a message saying, “This...
