by scribe | Sep 13, 2016 | current news, people, tournaments
Did I call it or what?! You might recall that in yesterday’s post I wrote about the upcoming U.S.-Canada match: I think the one weak link for Canada is board one. Evgeny Bareev is a strong GM for sure, but board one is a really tough assignment and he has only...
by scribe | Aug 5, 2015 | chess clubs, people, ruminations, tournaments
As some of you may have noticed, when I write about games against kids in this blog I often quote their age-group ranking, as in “Yesterday I beat John Doe, the #48 14-year-old in the country.” Mike Splane noticed this and said, “Why don’t you...
by scribe | May 3, 2015 | chess clubs, current news, people, tournaments
Today I played in a chess tournament with a difference — the 9th Annual Ray Schutt Memorial at the Mechanics Institute. It’s been a long time since I went to a tournament and just had fun. The Schutt Memorial is a blitz tournament, 4 minutes per game with...
by scribe | Apr 2, 2011 | Chess Life, people
I just learned, courtesy of Bill Brock’s Chicago Chess Blog, that the USCF member pages have added another new wrinkle: a line that indicates your ranking in the whole country. My current rating is 2093Â 🙁 . That puts me at #1290 in the country, which is...
by scribe | Jan 2, 2011 | current news, positions, tournaments
The Bay Area Chess New Year Open was a very strange tournament, but it worked out pretty well for me. As usual, it had two schedules, a 2-day and 3-day schedule. The 3-day schedule, which I played in, had nine players (in the open section), of whom only one was rated...
