Boylston Chess Club Blog entries
I periodically write articles at the Boylston Chess Club Blog. I sometimes refer back to earlier ones, for which this list is often useful. Most of them reflect some attempt at creative, humorous, and/or informative writing. However, some of them are merely requests for information, or something similarly mundane. Here they are in chronological order:
- 6/1/06: Meeting Little Mr. Grown Up
- 8/18/08: En passant
- 8/20/08: And Time won't give me Time...
- 1/16/09: Outside of a dog, a chess book is a tournament player's best friend.
- 3/25/09: With the Tactical Wizardry of a Squib
- 4/9/09: It's all in the Gummi bears
- 5/24/09: Introductory chess books for kids 7-11?
- 5/31/09: Hello, Larry: A View from Section 2 of the Paramount
- 6/28/09: Those madcap Quebecois
- 7/1/09: That guy really knows his chess clocks!
- 7/19/09: My Great Pretentiousness (or, Damn the Pronoun Agreement, Full Speed Ahead!)
- 9/16/09: Rook Endings Lost In Translation
- 10/2/09: Pachman Fever
- 11/14/09: Moves Not Found In Nature
- 1/19/10: Those madcap Quebecois, Part Deux
- 4/3/10: Sympathy for the Devil (oo-oo)
- 5/9/10: The Road to Chess Improvement
- 5/16/10: In-flight Entertainment
- 6/6/10: Art, Science, or Sport?
- 7/4/10: 64 Squares of Pain
- 7/6/10: Nice job with rating data, USCF!
- 10/31/10: Fire off Board
- 12/16/10: The Fighter: Walter Driscoll
- 2/19/11: Fear Factor
- 3/23/11: Register to vote in USCF elections
- 3/27/11: The numbers game
- 7/7/11: Seacoast Fishing
- 8/18/11: Peak Rating
- 12/2/11: Moving up the Board
- 12/2/11: Questions for French-speaking chess players
- 2/6/12: How to Cook a Pawn
- 2/29/12: London Calling
- 4/15/12: Chess Duels and Character Sets
- 4/27/12: Bourne Again
- 5/5/12: I Am Number Three
- 7/19/12: Dave's Not Here
- 8/5/12: Why the English Language Needs the Word "Egregious"
- 9/25/12: Facechessbook
- 10/26/12: Kevin Malone disagrees with Bobby Fischer
- 11/24/12: The Customer Is Always Wrong
- 12/4/12: Two Very Solid Players
- 12/7/12: Lawyer Times Is the New BCC Champion
- 12/31/12: tChess Pro iOS App
- 1/24/13: Going Over the Tactical Cliff at the Boston Chess Congress
- 2/10/13: No Winter Picnic
- 9/12/14: Becoming a Grandmaster
- 4/11/17: Magnus, me, and electronic chess books
- 6/12/17: Mass Open Musings, Part 1: Journey to the West (???, ??) [Games 5/28/17: Reiss-Ho]
- 6/22/17: Two hands needed for rook lift
- 7/19/17: Mass Open Musings, Part 2: No Country for Old Men (G/45, d/5) [Games 5/28/17: Ho-Su; Lei-Ho; Reiss-Ho]
- 5/14/18: Playground of the Mind
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