by scribe | Jul 4, 2018 | chess clubs, current news, endings, games, positions, tournaments
Round six of the Tuesday Night Marathon at the Mechanics Institute was another hard-fought draw. I really don’t mind draws, even against lower-rated players, as long as good chess was played on both sides. In this game, my opponent made a really strange mistake...
by scribe | Jul 24, 2016 | games, ruminations
My chess friend Mike Splane, whose comments have often been seen on these pages before, had so many things to say about my recent post The Wintered Rook that they would never have fit into a comment.He sent me a complete re-analysis of the game by e-mail. I’d...
by scribe | Jun 30, 2014 | games, people, positions
Last week Gjon Feinstein asked me, “Can we go over a couple of my games on your computer?” This request was a surprise to me. He is a chess teacher, so he knows full well that computer analysis can be fool’s gold. I don’t think he even owns a...
by scribe | Jan 18, 2009 | games, people, positions, tournaments
This morning I was rooting around my old chess binders looking for one game, and ended up (for no good reason) playing over another one. This game was from the U.S. Class Championship in Philadelphia, 1985, a tournament that I have basically no recollection of! This...
