Archive for the 'chess' Category

Scottish Chess Championships 2008

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Had a lot of fun this week heading down the Championships, which have been played at Glasgow Academy, in Kelvinbridge.

I played the morning lightning tourney, yesterday, on the sensory boards (!) and got 3/6, although narrowly seemed to have missed getting the Grading prize
There are some games of this on the net, but […]

Blog overhauled - battez.org is no more!

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Hi for anyone who has ever been to my website before, it was battez.org but I rather lacksadazeically (sick) omitted to renew the domain before it expired a few days ago, incurring a charge of $100+ or let it slide…so it has slid.
Anyway I wanted to move things to this Fianchetto domain, as that […]

Chess for schools

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

…but only english schools it seems. Still, an interesting scheme to provide chess sets for free to all schools who apply. They look slightly ugly but are intriguingly meant to be near indestructible sets made from some form of durable plastic.

Chess tournament

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Hi we are having a tournament for he next 4 weeks at our Chess Club - “Phones” in Glasgow’s Polish club at the Park.
I have set up a website for the tournament using a free wiki

Chess set by Jaques

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

 I took a few nerdy pics of my chess set that I totally love. It has sentimental and aesthetic value, but doesn’t seem to help my playing level that much :/

Anti Position

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Cool, but messy blitz game: