May 27 2007
Garry Kasparov is former world chess champion, retired 2 years ago from chess, co-founded The Other Russia, an opposition coalition. He wrote a short article for Bizwk, Putin’s Critics: A Web Strategy. I began to know him and Fischer, the two most famous figures in modern day chess through Golfer. He played on the Banker’s League, [...]
May 27 2007
Friday night we got a treat: a former pro who played 1989 US Open came to challenge Tony who’s a 5.0 player and rarely does he find a opponent within our circle. The story went like this: Tony showed up for work - a.k.a. to play - was playing first with the blue shorts [...]
May 27 2007
Slowpoke tried with Barry today and liked it. He worked on her forehand top spin only. She asked me few times about it, but I didn’t want to give her any advice since my forehand isn’t good. It turns out, my backhand isn’t either. Barry took few minutes to hit with me, and pointed out [...]
May 27 2007
I got up at crack of dawn and raced to play with my weekend morning group. Sunny and I got there at the same time, 6:48am. Harrison and Robert, the pair early birds are perennial, were there sweating it out. They both have beautiful single hand backhand, it’s a joy to see them play. Charlie walked by [...]