The kids continue to be obsessed with chess, and they’re getting better all the time. This past Monday, they participated in a simultaneous chess demonstration with Grandmaster Sergey Erenburg at the Maggie Walker Governor’s School. There were about 50 kids…
At some point in the last few months, I noticed everything happened in 1974. Well, okay so maybe not everything, and certainly not everything good. In the headlines that year, Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace to avoid impeachment in the…
I don’t know what’s worse, failing to update this site with no posts for months at a time, or ending that drought with an act of shameless self-promotion. But hey, we can’t really judge until I’ve done both, right? So…
Somehow we’ve turned into a chess household. Jason, Scott and even Grace are playing chess, talking chess, planning chess, reading about chess pretty much all the time. Actually, Jason goes way back with the game; somewhere I have a photo…
As noted in an earlier post, the highly-rated (and Hugo nominated) TV movie adaptation of Martin Caidin’s Cyborg aired in March, 1973, selling its audience on the outlandish notion of a half-mechanized superhero and launching the 70s cultural phenomenon we…
Lately I’ve been trying to keep the kids entertained with card tricks. One of them involves making a chosen card appear on demand, and to make it more fun I do it as a “telepathic” trick where the kids are…
