This sounds like an open and shut case...but is it? When I recently stumbled across a headline about a 28 year old “Soviet chess ace...

     I can’t resist posting this photo from the October 7, 1957 issue of Life magazine. Life was published weekly until 1972, as an...

     Sidney P. Johnston was born in Chicago on November 29, 1869, and died at the age of 35 on March 19, 1905.       As all Americans kno...

     In the following game played at Pistyan 1912, Frank Marshall took a beating from Karoly Sterk (September 19, 1881 – December 10, 1946...

     In the gangster world of Chicago in 1926 there was a lot of action. It was during the time of prohibition so bootlegging was big buin...

     Edith Keller-Herrmann (November 17, 1921 – May 12, 2010) was a German WGM. She was married to surgeon Dr. Lutz Herrmann and was the s...

     Rowena Mary Bruce (May 15, 1919 – September 24, 1999), nee Dew, was an English WIM who was an eleven-time winner of the British Women...

     Things had started to turn around in 1949. After the Depression and World War II postwar prosperity started to get underway. Auto c...

     According to a 2011 article in Psychology Today in quoting the Journal of Neuroscience, an area at the bottom of the brain called t...