by scribe | Apr 27, 2022 | current news, literature, off-topic, ruminations
What I did during the pandemic. One of the best things about being a writer is the moment when you first hold a book in your hands that has your name on the cover. I think that it may be similar to becoming a parent. You spend months and months anticipating something...
by scribe | Feb 6, 2021 | chess clubs, games, openings, ruminations
We come now to 1993, the middle year of my seven years in Ohio. It was a year of satisfaction and disappointment for me, and a year when storm clouds were gathering, even if I didn’t see them. The biggest thing by far that year was that Kay and I gave up on...
by scribe | Oct 20, 2019 | current news, literature, off-topic, tournaments
My tenth book! If any readers of this blog are into mathematics as well as chess, you might be interested in my latest book, which has just been published by the American Mathematical Society. What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences (WHIMS for short) is a...
by scribe | Nov 3, 2018 | 2018 world championship, chess clubs, current news, endings, positions, tournaments
As many of you know, I had a disappointing tournament in Reno last month, and I plan to write at least two or three posts trying to understand the reasons for my failure. But I’d like to start with a “failure” that really wasn’t — it was...
by scribe | Mar 30, 2018 | current news, off-topic, ruminations
With apologies, I am going to go off topic today and talk about math. Some chess players like math, so I hope you’ll be interested in this post! Big news! Today, for the first time in 23 years, I’ve had an article published in a mathematical research...
