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 [...]

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 [...]

Rob Schumann’s FoldPage plug-in is almost what I was looking for. It’ll do for now, then I’ll start hacking later.

Upgraded to the latest WP engine, and it broke my navigation. I’ve no idea why WP doesn’t support a decent drill-down navigation menu (then again, maybe it does, now, I’ll have to check) but I had to roll my own and now they did something in the last upgrade that broke it. I’ll have to [...]

I saw an old man cry, Sunday.
If you’ve ever been to a major scholastic tournament in Wisconsin, you’ve seen Ed Marquardt. He’s been on the scenes for more decades than I can remember. When he tells kids about how the rules changed for the Bishop move, his kids believe him because most think he was [...]

This past week saw the city scholastic playoffs. Due to bad attendence and some obnoxious displays of attitude early in the year, my team got off to an 0-2 start, and even though they recovered to go 5-3 for the season, it wasn’t enough; we were relegated to the Division 2 playoffs. The guys knew [...]

Anyone know why someone inside Random House (IP address 170.171.250.51) would want to keep posting spam to my comments?

One of the teaching tools I never have enough of are puzzles. You know what I mean, positions that range from “Mate in 1″ to “Black to play and win” to “Find the best move” (which might be a win, or might only be the best way to keep from losing).
So I’ve been working recently [...]

Once again some idiots out there are trying to spoil it for everyone else. This particular fool is a music spammer. My apologies for letting him get through. When I get time over the upcoming week, I’ll reinforce the walls a little.

Continuing along the series of real-world testing comparisons between CA and CB, I created a set of test positions for my students. Neither db did the job as well as I could have expected, nor even as well as they should.
In order to print out the list of diagrams for me to give to my [...]