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 | Dec 7, 2012 | Chess Life, current news, literature, people, ruminations
One of my favorite scenes in the documentary Brooklyn Castle, which I reviewed here recently, was the one where (spoiler alert!) Rochelle Ballantyne won the national girls’ high school championship on tiebreak, earning herself a scholarship to the University of...