US Champion Arthur B. Bisguier participated in the Golden Wedding Tournament which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of t...

       The year 1971 saw a big change in television and radio when ads for cigarettes were banned. The top rated tv shows were All in the Fa...

Mott-Smith vs. Denker      Saturday, March 31, 1945, was cloudy and rainy in New York, but the rain was expected to clear out by evening mak...

       Once upon a time the IECG (International Email Chess Group) was an electronically based organization whose aim was to organize, devel...

     The 1963 Soviet Championship was a massive affair with 20 players and Leonid Stein, Boris Spassky and Ratmir Kholmov tied for first wit...

     Twenty years ago Swedish trainer IM Jesper Hall published a slim (176 pages) book titled Chess Training for Budding Champions, a book t...

     Boris Verlinsky (January, 1888 8 - October 30, 1950, 62 years old) was a Soviet player, who was awarded the IM title in 1950. He was o...

     The year 1959 was an interesting one. According to Rod Serling there was a fifth dimension we didn't know about...the dimension of ...

     In his early days Fred Reinfeld wrote some excellent chess books, but they didn't sell so he took to writing junk, a trend not a fe...

       Jurmala?! It's a resort city in Latvia just west of the capital, Riga. It’s known for wooden art nouveau seaside villas, Soviet-e...