Friday, May 12, 2006

A Year of The Kenilworthian

As parents often say at their child's first birthday, "It all went by so fast." A year ago today I made my first post as The Kenilworthian, in which I discussed the origin of that odd (if relatively unique) moniker, and now here we are 365 days and over 200 posts later.
I thought I'd use this one year anniversary to offer you some of my "greatest hits." Especially if you are a new reader of my blog, you may appreciate this selected list in six categories: Opening Analysis, Essays and Reviews, Annotated Games, News and Compiled Links, Bibliographies, and Instruction. You can access other pieces from the days before my blog via the Articles page of the KCC website. And games posted in the first three months of the blog, before I started posting them in web-viewable java-applet form, can be seen at the Kenilworth Chess Club Quarterly, Volume 1A and Volume 1B. I am as stunned as you might be at my productivity, especially considering that this represents less than half of my total output. I think it may be time to move on to other things....

Opening Analysis

Essays and Reviews

Chess Restoration and the Usable Past (March 30, 2006)
Marketing Chess as Art (April 25, 2006)
Fischer's Problematic Legacy (March 20, 2006)
The New Yorker's "Planet Kirsan" (April 20, 2006)
Celebrity Chess Showdown (April 4, 2006)
Dracula Chess (August 21, 2005)
Chess in the Movies (November 29, 2005)
Chess in the Movies, Part Two (February 6, 2006)
Chess for Zebras (January 12, 2006)
"The Lazy Detective" (February 24, 2006)
"The Mad Genius of Bobby Fischer" (April 14, 2006)
My Grandfather at Lake Hopatcong in the 1920s (July 10, 2005)
De la Maza's Rapid Chess Improvement (August 14, 2005)
A History of the Kenilworth Chess Club (June 9, 2005)
Two Pieces in The New York Times (November 27, 2005)
Chess Fever at Kenilworth (August 5, 2005)
Chess in Colour (August 10, 2005)
Hydra vs. Humanity (June 26, 2005)
First American Chess Congress, New York 1857 (August 30, 2005)
The Last American Chess Congress (July 21, 2005)
Lithograph of New York 1857 (September 3, 2005)
New Yorker Article on Computer Chess (December 8, 2005)
Internet Chess Piracy (December 13, 2005)


Annotated Games

Capablanca vs. Ed Lasker at Lake Hopatcong (March 20, 2006)
Maroczy at Lake Hopatcong (March 22, 2006)
Kupchik at Lake Hopatcong (March 27, 2006)
Return to Lake Hopatcong 1926 (March 15, 2006)
Capablanca-Ilyin Zhenevsky, Moscow 1925 (September 10, 2005)
Moscow 1925 Lecture Notes (October 7, 2005)
Spraggett - De La Villa, Dos Hermanas 2006 (April 5, 2006)
Topalov-Morozevich, Monte Carlo Rapid 2005 (October 11, 2005)
Baker-King, BCF 1996 (January 19, 2006)
Petrosian-Pachman, Bled 1961 (January 5, 2006)
Tukmakov-Nikolaevsky, USSR Ch. 1971 (September 5, 2005)
Bisguier-Sherwin, New York 1955 (December 29, 2005)
Korchnoi-Karpov, Baguio 1978 (October 31, 2005)
Lasker - Marshall, St. Petersburgh 1914 (January 10, 2006)
Volokitin-Nakamura, Lausanne 2005 (September 27, 2005)
Torre-Saemisch, Moscow 1925 (September 15, 2005)
Why give him what he wants? (March 13, 2006)
Grasso-Stoyko, KCC 2005 (November 27, 2005)
Stoyko-Weeramantry, NJ International 1987 (February 9, 2006)
Milekhina - Stoyko, US Amateur Teams 2006 (February 24, 2006)
Kernighan-Stoyko, Hackettstown 2005 (September 4, 2005)
Stoyko-Cole, NJ Open 2005 (September 4, 2005)
Stoyko's Viking Quad (August 6, 2005)
Pawn Steamroller (March 29, 2006)
Last Round of the KCC Championship (March 13, 2006)
Round 8 of the KCC Championship (March 8, 2006)
Round 7 of the KCC Championship (February 27, 2006)
Round 6 of the KCC Championship (February 23, 2006)
Round 5 of the KCC Championship (February 13, 2006)
Photos from the 2006 KCC Championship (February 15, 2006)
Round 4 of the KCC Championship (February 7, 2006)
Puzzlers from Round 3 (February 1, 2006)
Round 2 of the KCC Championship (January 22, 2006)
Round One Games from KCC Championship (January 16, 2006)
Hart-Selling, NJ Open u-1800 2005 (September 3, 2005)
Kernighan-West, Hamilton 2005 (December 25, 2005)
Bartell-Kernighan, Westfield 2005 (October 15, 2005)
Bady-Bartell, NJ Open 2005 (September 4, 2005)
Kernighan-Klemm, Mount Arlington 2005 (December 6, 2005)
D'Amore-Valvo, New York 1990 (October 23, 2005)
2nd Bergen Futurity IT 1985 (March 13, 2006)
Return to Moscow 1925 (December 26, 2005)
Horace Ransom Bigelow at Lake Hopatcong 1923 (July 19, 2005)
Radomskyj-Kernighan, KCC 2005 (September 24, 2005)
Susswein-Demetrick, KCC 2005 (September 26, 2005)
Meinders-Hart, KCC 2005 (September 24, 2005)

News and Compiled Links

Linares / Morelia, 2006 (March 13, 2006)
US Chess Championship (March 6, 2006)
USATE 2006 Info and Links (March 27, 2006)
US Amateur Teams Final (April 3, 2006)
US Amateur Teams East 2006 (February 21, 2006)
Christiansen-Wojtkiewicz, San Diego 2006 (March 21, 2006)
Recent Annotations and Analysis on the Web (April 12, 2006)
Topalov Tops Corus (January 26, 2006)
Annotated FIDE World Chess Championship (October 4, 2005)
Newspaper Columnists on the World Championship (October 9, 2005)
Recent Annotated Games (August 23, 2005)
Games from the Continental Open (August 20, 2005)
Annotated Games from Dortmund (August 10, 2005)

Bibliographies and Links

Urusoff / Urusov Gambit Bibliography (August 3, 2005)
Barry Attack Bibliography (November 23, 2005)
1...Nc6 Bibliography (August 23, 2005)
Albin Counter Gambit Bibliography (October 10, 2005)
Grand Prix Attack Bibliography (October 2, 2005)
King's Indian Attack Bibliography (October 24, 2005)
Some Queen's Gambit Declined Links (November 15, 2005)
Chess Links for Kids and Beginners (November 15, 2005)
Free Holiday Gifts (December 27, 2005)
Chess and Computers Bibliography (December 16, 2005)
United States Chess League (September 6, 2005)

Instruction

Creating Chess Diagrams for Your Blog (August 22, 2005)
Adding Java Applets to Your Chess Site (September 8, 2005)
Teaching Chess to Kids (September 26, 2005)
Teaching Chess to Kids, Part II (October 7, 2005)
Teaching Chess to Kids, Part III (October 19, 2005)
Teaching Chess to Kids, Part IV (December 1, 2005)
How to View PGN Files (June 25, 2005)
Favicons (September 2, 2005)

4 comments:

Calvin said...

Wow! I need to read your blog more often it seems. It will take me a while to go through all of your past articles, but they all seem very detailed and informative. Thanks for all of the amazing chess material.

Milan Lee said...

Congrats Mike
Keep us busy reading :)

Friend of Plato said...

This is a very helpful compilation of links. Thanks.

Anonymous said...

Great blog!

Erwin
The Netherlands