When Houdini 5 was released November 7, 2016, nearly 3 years after the previous version, it was advertised as being vastly improved t...

Back in January I failed to mention the passing of Hans Berliner at the age of 87.  New York Times Obituary  ChessBase Tribute  Carnegi...

     Kholmov (May 13, 1925 – February 18, 2006 in Moscow) was not well known outside the Soviet Union, but inside the country he was know...

     It's been a while since I have posted one of my games and I know readers are just dying to see a recent example. The main reason...

     I don't often post recent games, but the following game which was played in the recently concluded St.Petersburg tournament caugh...

  Bonus post!  ChessbaseUSA has some free downloads available and one of my favorites is the database “Weird and Wonderful” which contain...

Flohr vs Botvinnik, probably in 1935 The results: Flohr         1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 6.0  Botvinnik 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 6.0...

Tarjan in the old days      In 1984 GM James Tarjan was still in his early 30s when he quit chess to became a librarian and the US lost ...

     Back in September, 2016 at the start of the Baku Olympiad complaints started when officials tried forcing players who needed to drain...

     Countless studies have shown that bad things have far more impact than good things on the human psyche. Bad things are a powerful dra...