Recently in June of 2025 I made my first television interview appearance. I'd previously occasionally been shown on TV playing chess or running, but I've never gone to a studio to do an interview. This was a live event - so no practice and no safe...
The Chess.com Daily Chess Championship is a large event with over 65,000 players. It's played in a double round robin of 12 players, so each player has to play 22 games. Only one player advances each round. I'd already made it through round 1 agai...
One of my first chess books was The Sicilian Pelikan (1989). I started playing in 1991 so I must have purchased it in 1991 or 1992. I've still got my copy with teenage hand written notes. The introduction has comments from both Karpov and Kasparov...
In 1992 I played in the Golden Knights, a multi-round USCF correspondence tournament. Back then all moves were sent via postcard. Unfortunately as a busy college student I dropped out before I finished all my games. I only have the score from this...
