There is an interesting Webpage I recently came across on opening statistics . These statistics show the percentages of games won by ...

      To be honest I haven’t followed a world championship match since Fischer-Spassky. Oh, I followed the off the board politics of the ...

I’ve posted about Tarjan before.   Here’s one of his typical slashing attacks I came across the other day.   Larry Gilden was another pr...

This video by Majnu is very instructive.

This is just a test to see how I like this game viewer. Play Online Chess [Event "Golden Knights Final"] [Site "Corre...

       If you are like me, the wife has denied me television remote privileges between the hours of 6pm and 10pm on most nights which means ...

  Advanced Chess is a form of chess where the human players use an engine during the game.     It was first suggested by Kasparov as a w...

       Anand, the world`s best rapid player, just won the World Championship for the fifth time.   He first won the World Championship t...

I am still fiddling around with the IDeA function and have come to the conclusion this program stinks! It’s not intuitive or user frien...

      As mentioned in a comment on the previous post, a test was conducted where the engine was given 25 test positions chosen from games...

According to the author’s site: Vitruvius is a UCI engine with a penchant for human positional play and works with Fritz, Schredder, Aquar...

Simpson's in the Old Days       Today Simpson's-in-the-Strand is one of London’s oldest restaurants, but to chess players i...

      The US Championship has finished. In one amusing incident Kamsky defeated a washed up Seirawan in round 9. After 20 moves Kamsky had w...

ChessDB is a free chess database which can be used on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Macs running OS X, FreeBSD, as well as most modern...

I've never been a lover of gambits, sound or unsound, but the other day I was intrigued by an article I saw on the Halloween Gambit: 1.e...

White to move and mate in three.   Not difficult with a board and pieces, but try doing it in your head and it’s a little more challenging...

Judge A.B. Meek       Morphy’s opponent in this game was Alexander B. Meek (July 17, 1814 (Columbia, South Carolina) – November 30, 1...