The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for our blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,300 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]
Archive for the ‘chess’ Category
What Do Russian Schoolboys Know?
Posted: November 4, 2011 in chessTags: Chess Videos, ICC, Internet Chess Club
Members of the Internet Chess Club (ICC) are entitled to play chess online against a wide variety of opponents. Quality games can be played any time of the day or night. The thing many members forget is that the ICC also provides training materials to help improve your game. The materials that I have found [...]
Queen to Play is o.k.
Posted: October 5, 2011 in chessTags: Chess Movies, Foreign Films, Kevin Kline
In a recent post about chess in movies, we pointed out that many writers identify with the romanticism of the game, but have no idea how to express it properly on film. Other writers use chess as a device to show that a character is intelligent, but don’t know how to set up the pieces properly [...]
Hey dudes. If you’re looking for some more groovy locations to play chess, we have the skinny on where to take a road trip. So load up your VW Bus with your boards, pieces and clocks and follow the positive vibrations to the following locations: Eastern Team Championship, Sheraton Hotel, Stamford, CT (11/4-11/6 or 11/5-11/6): [...]
Einstein, Chess and Space-Time
Posted: September 10, 2011 in chessTags: Albert Einstein, Analysis, Chess Strategy, Spacetime, Tactics
If you are interested in physics and the study of the universe, you will undoubtedly come across the theories of Albert Einstein. One of the most intriguing concepts is the idea of “space-time” or the combination of two parameters that we think of as distinct entities. As I was mulling over ideas for new blog posts [...]
Chess in a Hurricane
Posted: August 28, 2011 in chessTags: hurricane, hurricane irene, Marshall Chess Club, new york, weather
The last week of August was a hectic one for anybody on the east coast. Here in the New York metro area, we spent the past few days preparing for the arrival of hurricane Irene. After purchasing food, batteries, and quick-drying cement to patch a crack in our foundation, the only thing left to do [...]
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
Posted: June 26, 2011 in chessTags: Aqaba, Elham, Estonia, Jordan, New Orleans, Old San Juan, Tampere University of Technology, The Netherlands
Chess players are a unique bunch. People who are serious about the game love to play whenever and wherever they get a chance. A few months ago, I thought it would be fun to share my own stories and hear if others have had similar experiences. So I posted the following question on the LinkedIn Group – [...]
Chess + Movies = Bad News
Posted: May 28, 2011 in chessTags: Boris Spassky, chess, Chess in Movies, Faye Dunaway, Five Fingers, From Russia with Love, Games, Jennifer Beals, Laurence Fishburne, Queen to Play, Steve McQueen, Thomas Crown Affair
Readers of this blog might wonder why we have written articles on all aspects of chess except chess in the cinema. There are a couple of reasons why this subject has been on the back burner for so long. The first reason is that there are a number of blogs out there that have already [...]
Hi Everybody – In case you haven’t figured it out, the Garry Kasparov simul post was an elaborate April Fool’s joke. If you read it carefully, there are a number of clues … None of the “facts” in the article are true The terms of the event are increasingly ridiculous There is no April 31st [...]
Garry Kasparov: “Would not it be Cool to Play in Suffern?”
Posted: April 1, 2011 in chess, Grandmasters, TournamentsTags: chess, Garry Kasparov, Sidd Finch, Simul
Garry Kasparov the former world champion is close to agreeing to terms to play a simul in Suffern. The negotiations were a long and arduous process which occurred over many months. How did this come to pass? Sometimes truth is indeed stranger than fiction. (Or fiction is a lot like truth). One of the Suffern [...]
