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 | 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...
by Complete Chess | Jun 13, 2022 | Blog
I’m told you need to play chess nearly as much as you study chess. I’m currently studying a chess openings book while using an accompanying small portable magnetic chess set on the bus ride to and from my office each workday. Once there, I’ll go over a game out of the...
by Complete Chess | Jun 6, 2022 | Blog
This is not the version of the story I was expecting to write. I had been studying chess books daily for going on six years. Throughout that time, I had mostly been following the 20/40/40 rule in chess which is spending 20% of my study time on openings,...
by Complete Chess | May 30, 2022 | Blog
Being a bicyclist, I have traveled nearly every nook and cranny of downtown San Antonio and surrounding areas. There’s really nothing like pedaling downtown in the early morning as I breathe in the smell of meat being cooked while passing restaurants along the way....
by Complete Chess | May 23, 2022 | Blog
Pro golfers hit a point in their careers when their ability to play at the elite level is compromised. World class boxers reach a point when their reflexes just can’t match their younger opponents. NBA players are said to reach a point where their bodies tell them...
