Hello and Good Knight
My partner (in life and crime) returned from Norway with a perfect gift for me: a t-shirt from The Good Knight chess pub. Excuse […]
Month: November 2024
‘Tis a Good Move
Perhaps because I am an ancient (unwise) elder, I feel the little thrill of serendipity more often in the chess world than […]
“Considering the Case” (V. P. Loggins)
It is sensible, certainly, to assert
that feelings are partly the problem…
Taimanov-Golombek, 1952
Seeing Douglas Griffin had updated his fabulous Mark Taimanov page led me on a little walkabout and…synchronicity! In this position from Taimanov-Golombek, 1952 (see my […]
Capablanca’s Best Games (Golombek and Nunn)
The Capablanca book I most want to get my hands on is Capablanca’s Best Games. Specifically, the new (1997) edition edited, revised, and […]
Morozevich v Kokarev
Alexander “Moro” Morozevich, facing Dmitry Kokarev in the 2019 Russian Team Blitz Championship, found a sweet move to here to effectively end the game. […]
Szablewski v Radjabov, 1996
Playing with the black pieces on his way to winning the U10 group in the 1996 European Youth Chess Championships, a 9-year old Teimour […]
That Hollow Click
Is there a word for the feeling of sadness, nostalgia, fear and faint, doomed hope I get when I click to follow […]
Marin-v-Ljubojević, 1987
Yesterday I shared a puzzle I learned about via one of John Nunn’s books. Today, Douglas Griffin—translator extraordinaire, man of a million photos, and apparent […]
Mihail Marin on the “Information Explosion”
There is an almost unanimous opinion that, in chess as in other fields, the beginning of the third Millenium features an explosion […]