Category: Chess
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Chess Club Championship Recap
A couple of weeks ago I finished first place in the club championship at the strongest chess club in the county! The tournament ran seven consecutive Friday nights, one game each week, starting at 7pm and finishing at or before 11pm. Although I was the third seed in a field of forty or so, all…
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Is This Blog Dead?
Short answer: pretty much, but I’ll still keep it around for the archived material, such as my bicycle trip across the USA, and my Kenmore dryer mounting hardware post which seems to be of use to many. Also a couple of posts on using Open Street Maps and using my Garmin for on-bike navigation seem to be…
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Un-retiring from Chess, Twenty Years Later!
(April 2022 – My thinking on this has evolved quite a bit since I first wrote this – someday I will update, but right now it reads as I originally wrote it.) I haven’t spoken much here about my past life as a tournament chess player. To sum up my prior post on the topic:…
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The Rise and Retirement of a Chess Master
(April 2022 – My thinking on this has evolved quite a bit since I first wrote this – someday I will update, but right now it reads as I originally wrote it.) I don’t recall exactly how I learned to move the chess pieces. Given that I lived in a small suburb on the East…
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