I went into this last round game for the January Metrowest Chess Club tournament with 3/3 points and a chance to win the section if I won this game. I’d been playing pretty good chess all month so I was hopeful. I was outrated, but not by so much that I was intimidated.
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 angles by Stephen Gray When I started this version of my blog, one of my ideas was to do a series of interviews with photographers whose work I’ve liked, especially those that have made me think differently about photography. Stephen Gray, xgray on Flickr, has totally altered the way I think about photography. His work forces me to see the world around me differently, and completely changed the way I think about composition. Shadows and negative space also figure prominently in his work, and it is his photos with brilliant sunlight and deep shadows cutting across the frame that most capture my imagination. xgray is also a master of the found scene and taking simple, mundane objects and making the viewer look at them in a different way. This is also the first photographer whose work I have seen and then consciously tried to emulate. I’m sure that if I can learn to see the world like he does, which is very much how the camera sees it, I will be a better photographer. I sent him a few questions and his answers are below, along with a handful of my favorite images he’s produced. You can see more shots that I feel best represent what I find fascinating about Stephen Gray’s work in a Flickr gallery I created here and you can find my (so far limited) experimentation with doing work like this here. Continue reading Photographer Interview – Stephen Gray (xgray) Having won the first two games of the January tournament, I was paired against a strong player in round 3. Larry Kleine, 1651. I’ve only played a few games in my chess career against players over 1600, but with white I’ve now scored 4.5/7 against them, which is respectable. (Interestingly, I’ve never beaten a player rated over 1550 as black…) As is often the case against the stronger players this was a pretty clean and well played game. Sadly, the ending is somewhat marred by the fact that on my last move I turned a winning position into a draw, and that my opponent didn’t recognize this and resigned anyway. |
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