50 Years of Chess: Year 25

We’ve come to the halfway point in my chess narrative, and it’s the year of a big change: my move to California. During the first 25 years of my chess career I lived in several different places: Indiana, Virginia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio. In the...

Ohio memories

As some of you might have noticed, I took a short break from blogging and from chess in general for the last two weeks. My wife and I went back to North Carolina and Virginia to see (respectively) her family and my family. It was our first trip together to the east...