by scribe | Sep 7, 2016 | current news, people, positions, ruminations
… In one week! That’s the amazing odyssey of Phiona Mutesi, who is playing on the Uganda women’s team at the Baku Chess Olympiad. If the name sounds slightly familiar to you, it will probably become a lot more familiar later this month. Mutesi is the...
by scribe | May 19, 2012 | 2012 world championship, games, literature, ruminations, translations
On a free day for the chess match, some musings about translation… If you ever want to think deeply about a language (even your own language, or perhaps I should say especially your own language), you should try translating something into it or out of it. The...
by scribe | May 11, 2012 | 2012 world championship, Crestbook, current news, translations
The World Championship match between champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Boris Gelfand began today, with a rather short (24-move) draw. Gelfand appeared to have slightly the upper hand, but as GM Sergei Shipov said, “he considered a draw from a position of...
