So as a chess player I’ve been following these matches since they started last week. I have to say that I’m really disappointed and almost every match so far has come down to a blitz crapshoot. Grischuk is known to be a good blitz player, and his strategy so far has been to draw every […]

I recently read a news article about a study that found a correlation between success among Day Traders and the length of their ring finger compared to their index finger. Apparently having a long ring finger is a sign of high testosterone in the womb during fetal development. In the study, they found having a […]

Hey all, I’ve been on a little hiatus from blogging the last couple of weeks. For good or for worse, I’ve started playing a lot of poker again, and it’s been taking up a lot of my time. Anyhow, my team didn’t travel down to the Amateur Team East last weekend because a few of […]

So the last couple weeks I’ve been a little bit too busy to update my Blog, and I couldn’t have picked a worse 2 weeks to be busy since there has been so much action!
Fischer died last week the day I was heading down to the Liberty Bell Open in Philadelphia (Report Coming Soon). Before […]

We had a couple of big upsets today. Radjabov beating Anand with the white pieces was probably the biggest one of the day. It seems to me that once Radjabov was able to build this pawn chain with d6 and e5, Anand had very little chance of saving the game.

Notice the pawn can not be […]