by scribe | Jul 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
The year 1989 was a time of many changes in my life. I got married, I changed my name, I got a new job, and I moved from Durham, North Carolina (where I had spent six very happy years) to a small college town in rural Ohio. With so much going on, chess took a little...
by scribe | Jul 1, 2012 | games, people, positions, tournaments
As some of you might have noticed, I took a short break from blogging and from chess in general for the last two weeks. My wife and I went back to North Carolina and Virginia to see (respectively) her family and my family. It was our first trip together to the east...
by scribe | Oct 22, 2008 | ruminations, tournaments
Michael Aigner’s comment on my last blog post jogged a few memory cells for me. Specifically, he felt that he had a fairly rotten tournament in Reno, and he lost rating points, and yet he actually won some prize money. That reminded me of some tournaments I had...
