by scribe | Apr 24, 2012 | chess clubs, Chess Lecture, games, positions
At Mike Splane’s last chess party, he told each of us to introduce ourselves and “tell us one little-known fact about yourself.” I basically went blank, and the only little-known fact I came up with was that my favorite cereal is Grape-Nuts. Well,...
by scribe | Oct 23, 2010 | off-topic, people
What does it take to get a statue made of you? Apparently, just being world champion is not enough. Just for fun, I did a search this morning for statues of the chess world champions — not counting gravestones — and I only came up with three. First, there...
by | Jun 26, 2009 | Chess Lecture, people, ruminations
Last weekend David Vigorito, aka “Fluffy,” one of my co-conspirators at ChessLecture, got married. Mark Ginsburg has pictures in his blog, and he mentions several prominent New England chess players who were at the ceremony. I wonder if chess sets were...
