Intermezzo

It’s been a bit of hectic summer.

I’m heading out to IRL Chessbrunch in a little bit. We’re not going to the North Avenue Beach Chess Pavilion today — the temperatures are…

My life is about to get eaten by soccer.

I recently read an article over at FiveThirtyEight, detailing chess correspondent Oliver Roeder’s recent meeting and game with Magnus…

I’ll say this about the tournament: I love the enclosed garden/atrium at the event site. Lovely place to sit and decompress between rounds.

Time to next tournament (Evanston Chess May 2018 Tri-Level): 1 day.

I realized recently that I like chess for a lot of the same reasons I like books.

It’s 8:30am on the day of my first tournament. I’m heading out in about half an hour and I’ll be out of pocket for much of the day. I’m…

I’m writing this at about 1am on Saturday night/Sunday morning. I’ve spent most of the evening doing soccer blogging and now I’m trying to…

I want to tell you about Walter.

This column, and indeed this blog, wasn’t something I spent a lot of prep time on in terms of content strategy. I figured it was better to…

I have a habit of falling out of interests before picking them back up years later. I drifted in and out of soccer fandom for a long time…