The man behind the T-Notes
Meet Steve Lopez, writer, Blues singer, self-confessed
chess freak – and one of our longest-standing contributors.
He is a leading expert on ChessBase software, having run the USA
hotline for our company for many years.
In fact the name "T-Notes" is derived
from the ChessBase annotation function that is executed by pressing
"T" while entering a game. It is used to "take back
the last move and enter a variation".
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Steve Lopez has been writing about computer chess since 1992. Among his
other electronic books are Danger Zone!, How to Choose a Chess
Opening (with NM Alex Dunne), and Battle Royale: The 1924 New York
International Chess Tournament. His web site, The Chess
Kamikaze Home Page, was named one of the Internet's "most interesting"
chess sites in the July 2001 issue of Chess Life magazine.
Steve wrote and produced numerous radio dramas, documentaries, and comedy
in the 1980's and 1990's. He wrote a monthly sports simulation gaming
magazine column in the mid 1990's. He currently writes a weekly computer
chess column and a bimonthly chess biography column, published on various
commercial Internet sites. His other current projects include conducting
independent research on American Civil War infantry tactics and small
or obscure battles of that war, as well as analysis of period military
manuals.
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Steve is an avid online correspondence chessplayer,
an occasional postal chessplayer, and an absolute fiend for offhand
pub games. He's also collected chess software and stand-alone chess
machines for more than ten years and has well over 200 programs
and machines in his collection.
His sports interests include soccer and fighting
robot competitions. Among his hobbies are wargaming (board, miniature,
and computer), book collecting, and accumulating interesting memorabilia
for his office (known as the Skull Cave).
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Steve lives in Maryland and spends a truly ridiculous amount of time
walking the Antietam and Gettysburg battlefields with his twin sons.
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