Recently I can't say I'm playing chess well. I will not pretend I have played good chess once in my life but It's like I always want to jump at the throat of the enemy king and always forgot about the security of my pieces and my own king. Result,...
La semaine dernière, André Marchand nous a quitté. Président emblématique du club d'Issy les Moulineaux depuis des dizaines d'années, il était, pour moi, une référence de modestie et de classe en tant que fort joueur et responsable de club. Il m'...
Yesterday I played in the last round of a small inter club chess championship. Here's my game I won, the team won and we became champions ;-)
From 22nd to 29th I played 9 games at the Menton Open and I had a pretty bad tournament. I keep making mistakes and blunders at a big rate Here are a position from each game and the result: The result of th...
Sad news https://thewire.in/158018/maryam-mirzakhani-fields-medal-rouhani/ Some maths are beyond my comprehension but always fascinating. I first heard about Maryam's work in 2014. RIP.
and (grand) masters are sometimes not very helpful :-) Look at the analysis of the same game, MVL against Hou Yifan at Grenke 2017, but on two different sites: https://www.chess.com/news/view/aronian-new-leader-at-grenke-7098 http://en.chessbase...
Almost every two years I fly to Beirut, Lebanon. That's always an experience for me. The first time I went there was in summer 2006, just five days before an invasion by Israel (I will not dive into politics and motivation of this war). It was th...
I play a lot against crazy bishop these days on my Windows Phone (during my commute, a game is rarely more than 10minutes). Crazy Bishop is an old IA developed by a French programmer, Remi Coulom (https://www.remi-coulom.fr/). It's level 80 an...
I don't know if there's the same book in other country than France. I found it while looking for books for my childs at the local public library: https://www.amazon.fr/Bibou-monde-%C3%A9checs-V%C3%A9ronique-Houck/dp/2878333934 I don't think my ...
My girl doesn't ask to play chess anymore but we are playing other games like monopoly, labyrinth, we also tried blokus but she doesn't like it much. Yesterday she was very happy to show me how she can count until 69 (in French numbers between 69...
I learned to play chess when I was 5 or 6 years old during my last year at preschool. In fact I don't remember it and I have to trust my parents for this :) That's a shame because: I don't remember the joy to discover this wonderful game I can't ...
The picture for my avatar is a photo of my 1 year old girl wanted to play with dad chess set. The photo was taken back in september 2012. She's very fond of board games and she keep telling me that she wants to play chess. Now she's almost 5 years...
