Category: life

Cheer up, tomorrow is Saturday

Everyone likes Saturday. You may choose traveling out of town, going shopping, watching a movie, fixing something on your house, or like me, bringing kids to a chess tournament. Wow, so many choices, you choose whatever you like. Maybe not entirely true. As I mentioned in another post, Abe’s basketball games are on Saturdays. Most [...]

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Friday January 22nd, 2010 in life, parents | No Comments »

Jeff Sarwer—From a child chess prodigy to a successful poker player

I know that many people have heard of Jeff, either by watching this video or reading this wonderful interview by Jennifer Shahade. I recently read the book “Searching for Bobby Fisher” by Fred Waitzkin. (Not the movie as I talked in other posts). Although this book is about the author’s son, another chess prodigy named [...]

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Friday January 15th, 2010 in chess, life, parenting | 7 Comments »

A beautiful article on adventures of a chess player

If you have not read IM Irina Krush ‘s article “Krush in China – adventures of a chess player” on ChessBase.com, and if you like chess, art, adventure and beauty of nature,  you should check that one out. The article is a photo document of Irina’s adventures in China, it is full of beautiful pictures [...]

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Monday December 7th, 2009 in chess, life | No Comments »

Garrison Keillor: Being a dad

I started to be a fan of  Garrison Keillor about eight years ago. Every weekend, I  would eager to hear his A Prairie Home Companion on the radio. I borrowed all his stuff from the local library: cassettes, CDs, DVDs and books. Enjoy the following monologue I found from YouTube. Being a Dad is full [...]

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Thursday December 3rd, 2009 in life, parents | No Comments »