Or, in my case "The Thrill of Victory, and the Agony of Being a Complete, Moronic, Stupid, Idiot, Greedy, PUTZ ( Read more... )

I've been blogging here for slightly more than 10 years now. This month is only my 2nd blog entry, which is unprecedented. Am I migrating to FaceBook with its shorter, but still far more meaningful than 140 (or whatever) characters? I don't know. We'll see ( Read more... )

Coming Out is a continual process ( Read more... )

In the end the MA State Open Championship was a disappointment. Or at least my performance was. I won 2 out of 6 games, but the biggest problem was that I lost games to folks who were significantly below my rating and because of that I lost 67 rating points and slipped back to Class E. I keep saying, "What could you expect? You've not picked up a ( Read more... )

The MA State Open Championship is also the Annual Meeting of the MA State Chess Association where the votes for the coming year are tallied and announced ( Read more... )

I blew the second half of the tournament, losing the 4th, 5th, and 6th games, the last against a 969 opponent. I had a very nice attack going that petered out. Then I had his Rook trapped and he wriggled out of that. Then it just degraded ( Read more... )

The Fourth Round went sour and I lost it. Still, at that point I was at 2 wins and 2 losses. I mentioned to Grandmaster Larry Christiansen that I couldn't manage to string two victories together. As three time United States Champion Larry said, "I know the feeling ( Read more... )

So, I get to the MA State Open Championships and I immediately sit down and start helping George take walk-in entries as TD Bob Messenger works on the pairings. Five minutes before the round is scheduled to start a small girl comes in with her parents saying that she'd registered via PayPal, but she wasn't on the wall chart. I immediately try to ( Read more... )

"So, how's the Chess going?"
-Dr. Price's opening salvo in getting around to telling me he was leaving the AAVSO.

"Time, time, time!
See what's become of me,
while I look around at my possibilities."
-"Hazy Shade of Winter"
Simon & GarflunkleSo, terrifyingly, the last rated game I played was at the end of January. This long weekend I will be ( Read more... )

The Statistical Results!
...and they are wonderfully, wonderfully solid, if not fabulous!

The completed crosstable for the entire Boston Continental Amateur can be found here. Please note that I was in Section 4 ( Read more... )