by scribe | Apr 28, 2012 | endings, games, people, tournaments
When I played my first game against a world champion (the world computer champion, Belle, in 1983), I knew that I was playing a world champion. That was not the case the second time. On the weekend after New Year’s Day in 1988, I decided to play in one of Bill...
by scribe | Dec 2, 2008 | Chess Lecture, games, tournaments
As I promised, here is my game from round five of the Thanksgiving Festival. My opponent was Paul Richter, a class A player who looks to be 13 years old or so (but we know how bad I am at estimating ages). It’s just the sort of game that I love, with pieces...
by scribe | Apr 21, 2008 | Chess Lecture, games, positions
I just finished watching Jesse Kraai’s second lecture on one of my games from Tucson, the game with Jacob Berger that I wrote about here. I found this one slightly less satisfying than the first, but it’s no fault of Jesse’s. The way I played the...
