Monthly Archives: August 2006

Bug in ICC PGN Viewer?

By Steve | Published: August 31, 2006
I tried to create an ICC PGN viewer for the “bad news” game in my previous post. But when I copied the PGN below into the ICC web form for automatically generating the viewer code, it seemed to think that Black’s 8… O-O was illegal, and the resulting viewer refuses to show any board position [...]
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Now the bad news

By Steve | Published: August 31, 2006
OK, now about that very painful, embarrassing lost Tuesday night. I got a pretty strong position early on, and I was able to improve it move by move until things looked very dicey for Black’s king. Here’s the position after 17… Rc8, for example: Almost all of my pieces are already bearing down on Black’s king [...]
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The good news first…

By Steve | Published: August 31, 2006
Good news and bad news from this month’s tournaments… Good news first: My overall results in two August tournaments pushed my unofficial USCF rating up almost 100 points, to 1574. This is the first time it’s ever been over 1500, and I’m very excited about that! Now I can really start thinking about making it into [...]
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G/55 results

By Steve | Published: August 20, 2006
I played in a four-round G/55 Swiss today. It’s been maybe three years since I played at that time control. I scored 3/4 in the Under-1600 section, which was good enough for second place and a few rating points. Plus I won back my entry fee. I’ve done about 550 problems from CT-ART in the last [...]
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Too “rigid at the board”?

By Steve | Published: August 17, 2006
I had my third lesson with IM Igor Foygel yesterday. He wants one more lesson with me before he begins to make specific suggestions about where to go with my chess playing. But he did say a few interesting things: Igor plays regularly at my club, so he has seen me at the board. He commented [...]
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