by scribe | Mar 27, 2016 | current news, people, tournaments
Let me start with an apology. I haven’t been following the Candidates’ Tournament in Moscow very closely — in particular, I haven’t been watching the live broadcasts, although I have been reading about the games on Chessbase.com afterwards. I...
by scribe | Oct 29, 2011 | endings, games, tournaments
The Four Endgames of the Apocalypse are the most notorious “common” endgames in chess, endgames where normal chess concepts go out the window and which lead otherwise sane chess players (??) to pound their heads in frustration. They are: K+Q versus K+R...
by scribe | Jun 2, 2010 | current news, people, tournaments
The Chicago Open (which I wrote about in my last four blog entries) was not the only chess event that happened on Memorial Day weekend. In Stillwater, Oklahoma, there was big news in the chess grouposphere (a separate, parallel universe to the blogosphere), because...
by scribe | Aug 19, 2009 | endings, games, literature, people, positions, tournaments
Back in April I posted an entry called “Chicken!” (part 1) that began telling the story of a game I played with a master named Rich Jackson in the 1987 North Carolina Championship. This particular tournament was one of the highlights of my chess career, as...
