by scribe | Dec 13, 2012 | people, ruminations, tournaments
Consider this: A little kid walks into a scholastic chess tournament in St. Petersburg one day. He’s unrated, so he probably plays on one of the bottom boards. He loses two games and then goes home. According to the tournament report he finished second-to-last,...
by scribe | Oct 14, 2011 | off-topic, ruminations
For various reasons I hauled out a trunk yesterday that I had not opened in about ten years. I wasn’t even entirely sure what was in it any more. It turned out that about a third of the trunk consisted of souvenirs from my semester in Russia. I studied in...
by scribe | Mar 28, 2010 | Chess Lecture, Chess Life, games, positions, tournaments
The worst kind of self-induced defeat in chess is resigning in a won or drawn position. In my most recent ChessLecture, I talked about a game submitted by Matt Hayes where his opponent fell into exactly this trap. It was especially memorable for Matt because it put...
