by scribe | Jul 18, 2021 | Chess Lecture, games, people
Wow! We’re moving on up to 2013 in this retrospective, and in this year I have a rich selection of interesting games to show you. But — here’s the catch — I’ve already written about almost all of them on this blog. Here are some of the...
by scribe | Sep 4, 2014 | Chess Lecture, games, positions, tournaments
Usually when I write about games I have recently played, I show you most or all of the game and have several diagrams along the way. This time I’m going to do something different. I played six games in my tournament from last weekend, and I’m going to show...
by scribe | Feb 15, 2013 | Chess Lecture, endings, games, positions
Two of my most intense and difficult wins of the past year both happened against the same person, who also happens to be a reader of this blog: Praveen Narayanan. By coincidence, I spent the morning studying the game I call Praveen II (though perhaps he would call it...
by scribe | Sep 6, 2012 | current news, endings, positions, US Chess League
The U.S. Chess League started its eighth season this week, and for the first time I watched online at chess.com. (Thanks to Gjon Feinstein for tipping me off to the fact that the games were being streamed there.) I mostly followed the San Francisco – Carolina...