hardcore pawnography

next week i’m going to chess camp, it’s gonna be GREAT!   we are gonna make smore’s using the black pawns, we are gonna glue macaroni to score sheets and make cool knight and rook pictures.  we are gonna sit around a campfire roasting bishops and the camp IM counselor will tell us scary stories of the kid at the tournement who would beat everyone and take thier rating points, and later they found out that kid died years ago in a freak chess accident at that same tournament!

or maybe it’s not gonna be like that, i’ve never been to one, i don’t know.  i guess it will be a few hours a day surrounded by 13 year olds who are better than me, learning chess.  why don’t they just call it a chess seminar?  i guess cause kids won’t want to go to a “seminar,” but they will go to “camp.”   either way, i’m pretty excited.  i should learn a whole bunch of stuff, which is pretty damn cool.  bout damn time i did some learnin.

this weekend i will study positions, go over tactics, and compare the games between botvinnik and tal, see what made who win in thier match in 1960 1nd 1961.

i’m still gonna watch le tour, but, it’s just so….frustrating.  rasmussen is out, no yellow jersey yesterday, as no one wanted to “inherit” the jersey, so they rode and contador is in 1st place.  cofidis is out cause one of thier guys tested positive.

i almost can see the doping.  these guys are riding over 100 miles a day almost every day for 3 weeks.  up huge mountains, fast.  thier bodies are being pushed to the limits.  but i guess that’s not an excuse. damn, just ride these last days and lets move on…

anyone reading this, i hope you have a great weekend.