by scribe | Jan 23, 2021 | Chess Life, games, people
In my last post, I gave up on trying to pick a “best game” from 1992 because there are three high-quality, or at least high-interest games that I wanted to show you. Today, I’ll show you my favorite single move ever. A few years ago, I picked it as...
by scribe | Sep 16, 2018 | games, literature, positions, ruminations
Sometime in my early twenties, I read Alexander Kotov’s famous book Think Like a Grandmaster, which revolutionized how chess players think about thinking. From Kotov I learned the idea of making a list of candidate moves, and analyzing each move once and only...
by scribe | Mar 1, 2016 | endings, people, positions, tournaments
I’d like to show you a position from my one loss in the U.S. Amateur Team tournament. It came in round two against Neel Apte. Although I hadn’t played him before, I consider him sort of a “classmate,” because there are three or four Bay Area...
