by Complete Chess | Aug 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
I’ve been riding bicycles off and on since I was a boy. We had in my elementary year’s one bicycle for my sisters and me to share. It was a girl’s bicycle with plastic sunflowers on the front portion of the metal basket mounted to the handlebars. It had a back brake...
by Complete Chess | Aug 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
I just finished up my work day on a warm Saturday evening. I put in another full day’s work as a self-employed professional. The sun will be fast setting soon but I didn’t want to leave the office for home without scheduling this week’s blog. My office dog is...
by Complete Chess | Aug 16, 2022 | Blog
I have perhaps 15 minutes to compose this blog in order to catch my Sunday evening bus from my office. I’d like to recap what happened on Saturday. Here in San Antonio, we held a free chess tournament at Julia Yates Semmes Library Branch. I didn’t know what to really...
by Complete Chess | Jul 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
It’s been about a month that since my debacle at the 2022 Texas State and Amateur Chess Tournament. I licked my wounds, examined weaknesses, and changed my pattern. I joined Chess.com a number of years ago, but been on it as much as I had our family treadmill. To fix...
by Complete Chess | Jun 27, 2022 | Blog
A few years ago, a chess friend of mine mentioned a book was written about the San Antonio scholastic chess scene set in the 1970’s. Players of that time were enjoying the ripples from the Fischer chess boom when people of all ages were flocking to chess. San Antonio...
