Ramblings and ruminations on chess in SE Wisconsin, the USA and the World

Archive for June, 2006

USCF Politics

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

The new USCF ballots are mailed, and we received ours a little while ago. USCF still can’t figure out how to count. (WI gets two delegates, yet the ballot says ‘vote for four.’)
The Executive Board also lists its candidates, such as they are. Your choice is your choice, and I urge you to make one. [...]

Chess Cafe Correction

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

I normally don’t note things like this here, but since Chess Cafe provides no way to either:

Link directly to the review for more than a month
Post a comment to the article or forum

I’m not left with many alternatives.
In a review of Maxim Blokh’s excellent book Combinative Motifs, Eugene Manchester makes the claim that it is [...]

Relaunch

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Had some new ideas. Decided to make them real. Hate IE/Win. Hate it hate it hate it hate it.
Hope you enjoy the new look. I’m aiming more for a “printed magazine” kind of appearance. This look will be here for a while, but bits of it will tweak. New color schemes, better graphics, will be available [...]

June Notables

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

The June rating supplement is out, and so here’s the list:

Raymond Hayes is tied for 47th on the Seniors list.
Erik Santarius is tied for 21st among 18 year olds.
Dane Mattson is 35th among 18 year olds.
Derek Paitrick is 46th among 18 year olds.
Sirhei Biareishyk is 61st among 18 year olds.
Jeremy Kane is 34th among 16 [...]