Jim Stitzel
Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of WordsExcerpts from Life
Jim Stitzel vs Matias S.
###pgn### [Event "Online Chess"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2008.08.21"] [Round "1"] [White "Jim Stitzel"] [Black "Matias S."] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1365"] [BlackElo "1575"] [TimeControl "1 in 5 days"] 1. Nf3 Nc6 2. e4 d6 3. Bb5 Bd7 4. O-O a6 5. Bxc6 Bxc6 6. Nc3...
John Psonis vs Jim Stitzel
Back to black for this game. You may notice that I like to open with the King's Knight/King's Pawn and then the King's Bishop, where possible. This opens me up to castle very early in the game and get the King's Rook into play that much sooner while tucking my King...
Jim Stitzel vs Boris Ploszkiewicz – Round 2
Boris wanted to run a 'Best Two Out of Three' match, and this game was just as interesting and fun as the first. ###pgn### [Event "Online Chess"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2008.08.18"] [Round "1"] [White "Jim Stitzel"] [Black "Boris Ploszkiewicz"] [Result "1-0"]...
Fiction
Firewall
André stepped outside to a world in bedlam. Billboards flashed alternately among binary output, machine code, and actual ads. Vehicles were strewn about the highway like so many child’s toys, their operating systems completely trashed. Most of the city’s droids were...
Networked
André jammed the button on his phone. Nothing. Everything was all touchscreens now, except for the solitary button necessary to reboot a device if the OS froze up. “Dammit,” André swore. Stupid thing had been giving him fits all day. Disk reformat in 5 sec… “What? I...
Driveway to Nowhere
It was a long, paved driveway to nowhere. Fifty yards of winding tree-lined blacktop ending in an open field. There was no building at the end, nothing to indicate the driveway’s purpose, no sign that a building had ever stood here. Zack stood at the end of the drive...