by scribe | May 7, 2013 | Chess Lecture, current news, games, ruminations
I don’t know if anybody noticed this, but on Friday a new lecture of mine, called “Learn From Your Fellow Amateurs, Episode XXXIII,” went live on ChessLecture. It was a lecture I was particularly excited about, because I thought that it was a game...
by scribe | Mar 31, 2013 | current news, endings, off-topic, positions, tournaments
That “other” tournament that isn’t taking place in London, the 2013 Larry Evans Memorial in Reno, ended in a four-way tie for first between GMs Sergei Kudrin, Alexander Ivanov, Walter Browne, and IM Ray Kaufman at 5-1. It’s worth noting that...
by scribe | Jun 4, 2012 | Chess Lecture, current news, people
The best series of articles at chess.com came to an unexpected and somewhat sad conclusion last week. I wrote previously in two posts (here and here) about Bryan Smith’s series, “A Traveling Chess Player,” which began with his impulsive and not...
