Irene Vines won the Louisiana State Championship in 1956 when she topped a strong field of 47 players with a score of +5 -0 =1. She ...

     The 1955 US Open held in Long Beach, California had a rather bizarre and controversial finish. Reshevsky and Rossolimo tied for fir...

     In 1884 Johann Zukertort spent July 2nd to July 25th in San Francisco giving simultaneous chess exhibitions and his visit was arrang...

     Dr. Bela Rozsa (February 14, 1905 - 1977) was born in Kecskemet, Hungary. His father was the opera singer Lajos Sandor Rozsa, a lead...

Karl Gilg      The General Government chess championships (Schachmeisterschaft des Generalgouvernements) were a series of five Nazi tour...

     I mentioned Rolf Wetzell's book Chess Master at Any Age in the previous post and thought it would be interesting to take a loo...

A FLASH CARD by ROLF WETZELL      Alexey Suetin wrote in How to Play the Opening that the study of openings requires a good memory, but...