by scribe | Dec 1, 2020 | current news, literature, off-topic, people, ruminations
Taking a one-post break from my retrospective series to jot down my thoughts on “Queen’s Gambit,” the television series on Netflix. I know I’m way behind, because I like to take my television in small doses, so everyone else has already...
by scribe | Jul 5, 2020 | literature, off-topic, people, ruminations
Going off-topic today, with apologies to my chess fans. I. Last night Kay and I had movie night, a family tradition every Friday. Sad to say, I can’t tell you what movie we watched last week, or the week before that, but I can tell you that last night we watched...
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 | Oct 3, 2015 | current news, literature, people
This afternoon, a week or two after everybody else, I finally got a chance to watch Pawn Sacrifice, the movie about the Bobby Fischer – Boris Spassky match starring Tobey McGuire. I know that any chess player can easily find flaws with the portrayal of chess and...
by scribe | Feb 14, 2013 | current news, off-topic, ruminations, tournaments
What is it about chess and movies? All of a sudden chess has become trendy. Last year we had “Brooklyn Castle.” And now, while that is still going around the indie movie circuit, here comes another chess movie, Computer Chess. All I know about this movie...
