Last Wednesday I “unleashed” a surprise attack against my regular chess partner, Dr. M, by deploying the Jobava London system, after watching the first of Simon Williams’ YouTube videos on the topic. Simon is an erstwhile quaffing partner of mine. We met during the British Chess Championships in Llandudno in [Read more…]
Tonight is the third of twelve games between World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, (Norway) and challenger and former World Champion Vishy Anand (India). The first game, in which Anand was White, was a draw. The second game was won by Magnus Carlsen… Result: Anand Wins. Anand (White) opened with P-Q4 which [Read more…]
Here is an animated gif of my most recent game of chess with Dr. M. I am White and Dr. M. is Black. The game began, P-Q4, Kt-QB3 P-BB4, P-K4 P x P, Kt x P P-K4, … After that, I forget the exact sequence of moves that led to [Read more…]
The Chess Championships are over. David Howell is the new British Chess Champion. I am already beginning to think about visiting my old stamping ground, Hastings at the end of the year, for the Hastings International Chess Congress … As for my final game in the Week 2 Afternoon Open, it was [Read more…]
I have been working with a couple of Kindle chess books recently. Back in the summer I had accumulated enough “Member Rewards Points” on the Tripleclicks website to reward myself with a free Kindle Touch with the intention taking it with me on our summer holiday. For some reason, however, [Read more…]
After reading about the death of Julian the Apostate in Dr M’s “History in English” lesson on Wednesday 4th July, we settled down to a couple of games of chess. In this game, Dr M attacks as if he is playing shogi (Japanese chess) and neglected to defend his King’s [Read more…]
Having comfortably won the first of our two games of chess on Wednesday, I went into the second game with far too much complacency, which led to a lackadaisical opening and middle game… Thankfully, the battery in the digital movie camera ran out of juice, but enough of the game [Read more…]
Last Wednesday evening, after our History in English class, Dr. M and I played two games of chess. Dr M kindly allowed me to film the games as a way to keep records without have to go through the rigmarole of taking notes. In the first game, Dr M made [Read more…]
The Grand Finale of the Xtreme Chess Championships was played out in New York between 13-year-old Justus Williams & Stanford Student Elliott Liu few weeks ago. I got hooked on this mini series right from the beginning and was happy to see these two competitors make it to the final, [Read more…]
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