Charles Watson      With the boom in post-WWII chess activity the radio match played on June 15 and 16, 1942 between Australia and France we...

     Everybody knows about the annual Hastings Christmas tournament. The first one took place in 1920-21 and was a four player double round-...

     The first modern rating system was used by the Correspondence Chess League of America in 1939, but it wasn't until 1950 that the US...

     About four years ago I did a post where I looked at, among other things, the SashChess engine, but wasn't too impressed by it. Howe...

     A few years back, 1957 it was, my parents and I were in Puerto Rico where we were visiting my brother who was in the Navy and stationed...

     In 1936, Hitler began a military build up along Germany's western boarder in defiance of the prohibitions of the Versailles Treaty....

     In England in 1834 six farms hands from Dorset were sentenced to be sent to a penal colony. Their crime? They formed a trade union. Han...

     In 1926 the Western Chess Association hosted a Masters Tournament in Chicago that was held in conjunction with the Western Championship...

       The years 1920 was an interesting year in the United States. Many people familiar with US history know that was the year that the 19t...