Globular's Chess Blog

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Alive

Yeah, yeah... I know. I haven't posted in, like, forever. I'm alive.

Not chess related, but I was quoted in the NY Times. Pretty damn cool.

On the chess/blogoshpere front, most of my time now is spent on my USATE teammate Derek's blog Reassembler. It's one of my favorites. Wicked eclectic. Derek and I keep finding out that we have a lot of stuff in common. Wives that are graphic designers, a connection to Kentucky, hanging out in bars called "The Rat". It's kinda creepy... :)

GM LarryC gave a shout out to our team, "lead by the mighty Matt Phelps" in a letter to the editor in the latest edition of Chess Horizons. Here's a link to the magazine's home page. Unfortunately, the letter isn't online. If you can, I recommend checking it out. It's entertaining!


The Boston Blitz 2007 season in the US Chess league is beginning to heat up. Games begin the last Wednesday of August. Stay tuned for news and info regarding the Blitz's third season.

More later...

-Matt

posted by Globular at 8:37 AM

6 Comments:

  • Hey Matt, the reassembler link is .com, not .org.

    - Steve

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at July 18, 2007 10:02 AM  

  • Ha ha, you like my blog so much you garbled the URL? :)

    I enjoy your posts too but *coughBLOGROT*.

    That's pretty groovy, leading off an NYT article.

    By Anonymous Derek Slater, at July 18, 2007 3:22 PM  

  • All right... all right. I've fixed it. Jeez.

    Yes, blogrot is a problem. The forthcoming Boston Blitz activities should help me post more.

    By Blogger Globular, at July 18, 2007 3:43 PM  

  • :) I am looking forward to your Blitz coverage.

    Tell Larry I'm going to kick his butt next time.

    Oh, er, maybe not. Unless he gives me a ton of free lessons. And then has a lobotomy.

    By Anonymous Derek Slater, at July 18, 2007 11:18 PM  

  • outstandingly wonderful. honest. this is something to be proud of!

    :).

    parentheically: i was writen up in a long feature article in Smart Money Magazine, once, they even sent a photographer all the way to Seattle, to do me up, and then it was published.

    what resulted, was that they missed some stuff, and really made me sound better than i am in some ways. big leason for me.

    i dont distrust the media, but have learned that it is really a representation OF a representation.

    GM Seirawan, over lunch in April with his wife when he was last in town simply explained to me the real (publically unknown) explaination for the situation with the toilet with Kramnik,

    and the entire press is so far in the dark, and in left field, and all discussions writen there are irrelevent, and it is so simple and human. of course, i cannot discuss it, and remains a private matter. :)

    big leason two.

    warmest, david

    By Blogger transformation, at July 21, 2007 5:11 PM  

  • Hey Matt, tag, you're it (http://chessconfessions.blogspot.com/2007/07/questionnaire-tag-part-two.html).

    - Steve Eddins

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at July 28, 2007 7:24 PM  

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