Scott Caplan's blog http://blog.scottcaplan.com Gens Una Sumus Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:50:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en I’m a liar. http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/12/28/im-a-liar/ http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/12/28/im-a-liar/#comments Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:22:02 +0000 Scott Charles Caplan Snobbishness Friends & Family Chess Yale Chess http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/12/28/im-a-liar/ Yeah, so I said I’d be writing some more stuff in the near future. I lied. And don’t think that because now I’m writing that all of a sudden I’m going to keep my promise. There’s one very simple reason for this: exams. I have my first law school exams on January 5, 8 and 10. In the meantime, there are a few things I will post now.

Yale chess is at the Pan-ams with two teams. Last night our A team beat Dartmouth 3.5 to 0.5 and this morning we just beat Miami-Dade’s A team 3 to 1. All I can say is I’m giddy as a schoolboy. And I’m excited about our B team because two of the three freshmen on the trip are on it!

Also, for those in the respective areas that I’ve forgotten to tell: I’ll be in New York for new year’s then back to Boston for finals. During the intercession (apparently the official name of the break between 1L finals and the start of second semester classes), I’ll be in France (Tours, one hour from Paris by train) and Germany (Cologne and Munich).
Finally, snobby latin is no longer monthly and no longer Latin. Hopefully the next poster (TBD) will be a bit more punctual than Vlad (not that I’m in a position to complain given my aforementioned tardiness). In the meantime, even though Oid’ ho theleis, logous theleis, I’m afraid I won’t be able to deliver much more for a while.

Merry belated Christmas and Happy New Year!

PS. Here are the games from the win against Miami-Dade. You can play them out on an on-line board at monroi.com/wdc/.

]]> http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/12/28/im-a-liar/feed/ I will be breathing again on Friday. http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/10/08/i-will-be-breathing-again-on-friday/ http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/10/08/i-will-be-breathing-again-on-friday/#comments Sun, 08 Oct 2006 21:24:21 +0000 Scott Charles Caplan Classes Friends & Family Chess Yale Football Yale Chess http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/10/08/i-will-be-breathing-again-on-friday/ I have an LRW memo due on Thursday at 8, and subciting reports for JOLT due on Thursday at 5. I will explain what the subciting reports are later (the memo’s not really interesting enough to warrant an explanation). That is, I’ll explain what they are when I have a chance to come up for air.

And of course, you wouldn’t expect me to forget that we beat Dartmouth! (The chess match against Dartmouth should be on my birthday, October 28th, if all goes according to plan).

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]]> http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/10/08/i-will-be-breathing-again-on-friday/feed/ For check, for mate and for Yale. http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/24/for-check-for-mate-and-for-yale/ http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/24/for-check-for-mate-and-for-yale/#comments Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:34:08 +0000 Scott Charles Caplan Friends & Family Chess New Categories Yale Chess http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/24/for-check-for-mate-and-for-yale/ I got a call from my friend Neeraj Singh last weekend. I was so excited by the news that only subcite training for the Blackletter Law Journal an entire week later brought me down enough to finally write up this glorious information.

The chess club has been packed for the last two weeks. So much so, in fact, that Neeraj could hardly find a place to sit down! Even better, AOB (NB: the schedule there is outdated) has 18 signups for the semester from the Dwight Hall Bazaar, about two-thirds of which Neeraj figures are promising, in addition to the current AOB volunteers.

And Neeraj has already started work on the Police Athletic League tournament this semester. Now for the news (as I heard it):

  • Howard Nero and the kids at MicroSociety are going to start going to some USCF-sanctioned tournaments, and get ratings! David Lyons ‘08 and Jaison Oliver ‘09 are going to be helping some of their best kids train, so they’ll be ready to compete for glory at the CT Open (see below).
  • Amistad high school (a new school in New Haven that Yale is heavily involved in starting, partly in hopes that it’ll become a feeder school for Yale) is bringing in Jim Celone (Yale ‘83 and the President of the Connecticut State Chess Association) for work on developing a chess club there. Right now the school has 50 students in 9th grade and no 10th graders. Sounds pretty cool.
  • The Yale College Chess Club will be sending volunteers to a middle school in Hamden starting this semester to start a chess club there.
  • Jim Celone will be putting on the CT Open in March in the Lanman Center at Payne-Whitney gymnasium! I’m hoping to see some Yale-trained teams winning at Yale in March!

But for all this news, Neeraj still didn’t know anything about how the team’s doing this year. So I called Dave Wang ‘08, the ever-impressive, rarely-sober team captain, and asked him if we have any good freshmen. I’ve always said that the club needs one good player a year, and we certainly got that this year. Among the freshman class is a master-level player from Philly. And as if just to prove that it’s a small world, he’s friends with Matt Traldi who was our board 2 until he graduated this year. I’m looking forward to seeing the team’s games on live broadcasts and then live here in Cambridge for The Game (which will also be put on live broadcast)!

And of course, since this is still filed under Chess, I don’t have much to say about Kramnik and Topalov except I’m glad that in a couple of weeks, the chess world will once again have a world champion! Gens una sumus.

Of course, if I left out some detail and you’re reading, please feel free to comment on it through the blog, or email me the error.

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]]> http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/24/for-check-for-mate-and-for-yale/feed/ Cool silent but Russian chess animation http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/06/cool-silent-but-russian-chess-animation/ http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/06/cool-silent-but-russian-chess-animation/#comments Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:18:27 +0000 Scott Charles Caplan Chess Links http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/06/cool-silent-but-russian-chess-animation/ Two quick posts during my first week of classes (this is the first). It’s not my usual idea of what to post about regarding chess, but I thought it was pretty cool, so I’m showing off this link. Discovered via http://del.icio.us/tag/chess.

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]]> http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/06/cool-silent-but-russian-chess-animation/feed/ Makes me like Tim Tagaris even more… http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/03/makes-me-like-tim-tagaris-even-more/ http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/03/makes-me-like-tim-tagaris-even-more/#comments Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:23:58 +0000 Scott Charles Caplan Uncategorized Soapbox Friends & Family Chess Links http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/03/makes-me-like-tim-tagaris-even-more/ I’m already moved into Cambridge (though not quite ensconced; thanks Max for the new word), and my first post since my arrival really should have been about HLS. I’m sure I’ll get to that some other time, seeing that I have three years for my sentence until my degree. But in the meantime, I saw this item from the Ned Lamont campaign blog and have to post it before the Boylston Chess Club beats me to it. You should be confused right now as to how a Connecticut Senate campaign has anything to do with a Boston chess club, so I’ll quote from the post and relieve that confusion for you:

“They’ve played checkers all campaign, now they’re trying to pick up a chess board. Don’t let them.”

And all I can think is, “Checkers is for tramps.”

Note for friends and family: if you haven’t already, go read the explanation of how to use RSS to keep up to date with me through my site.

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]]> http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/09/03/makes-me-like-tim-tagaris-even-more/feed/ Chess testing http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/07/30/chess-testing/ http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/07/30/chess-testing/#comments Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:56:18 +0000 Scott Charles Caplan Uncategorized Chess http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/07/30/chess-testing/ So, I’ve been looking for a “solution” to my chess-blogging problem for a while, now. Originally, I was hoping to find a plugin for wordpress that would take a pgn file and generate a game. Instead, I present the following game that I just quickly played (and lost) to SigmaChess Lite. The applet is generated by ChessViewer. That said, here goes: (UPDATE: I’m putting the applet after the flip to make scrolling the front page easier).

This browser is not Java-enabled. In the future I plan on including a link to the original pgn files of games that I publish, but I’m not doing that this time.

Ok, I’ve posted it, looked at it, and tweaked it a little bit. I don’t like it, but it’ll do in the meantime (i.e., until either somebody writes something better, or somebody tells me of something that’s already out there that’s better). Just for the reference of other people, the width and length parameters are 500 and 400.

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]]> http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/07/30/chess-testing/feed/ Link: How not to sell chess software http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/06/19/link-how-not-to-sell-chess-software/ http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/06/19/link-how-not-to-sell-chess-software/#comments Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:36:46 +0000 Scott Charles Caplan Chess Links http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/06/19/link-how-not-to-sell-chess-software/ This is why the Boylston Chess Club’s blog rocks. Hopefully, I’ll have enough time to hang out there once in a while in the fall (it’s in the Boston area).

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