Tartajubow On Chess II
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

A Tragic Murder-Suicide

›
       Back in March of 1992, the Plantation, Florida Police Department reported two deaths. The deaths of an elderly couple from Tamarac, a...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

A Correspondence Beauty

›
     Around midnight Saturday the 1,900 mile long strip of bad weather that originated in Southern California hit my neck of the woods and t...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Watson Plays Like Tal

›
     While browsing one of C.J.S. Prudy's books I came across his description of the play of this rather obscure (to most of the chess w...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Unlawful Upsetting of the Balance

›
     According to Chess metrics calculation, on the September 1950 rating list Soviet GM Alexander Kotov (1913-1981) was tanked #3 in the wo...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Troianescu Crushes His Opponent

›
     Today where I live the temperature is in the single digits and there is 6-8 inches of snow on the ground. Things were different on this...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

A Lasker Classic

›
     The St. Petersburg tournament of 1914 featured the joint winners of the 1914 All Russian Championship (Alekhine and Nimzovich) and play...
Friday, January 16, 2026

Blundering

›
     Wednesday’s weather started off pretty decent...temperature in the mid-40s (7 or 8 C) with misty rain. Then temperatures dropped to 15 ...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

A Brilliant Finish by Lasker

›
     St. Petersburg 1895/96 was a quadrangular event with the four strongest players in the world, Lasker, Steinitz, Pillsbury and Chigorin ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Rose Almost Beat Capablanca

›
     My father, who never played chess, was born in 1907, a time when comic strips, dime novels and early silent films (nickelodeons) were b...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Geller Gets Lucky Against Fischer

›
     Soviet GM Yefim Geller (1925-1998) was one of the least appreciated of the GM’s of his era. In addition to ranking among the world’s el...
Friday, January 9, 2026

Postal Chess Before Engines

›
     A while back I did exactly what I said I wouldn’t do...I played a couple of correspondence games. My opponent for the two game match ...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Kansas State Meeting of Long Ago

›
     When the Kansas State Chess Association mrt in Wichita from December 26-30 in 1922 things were looking pretty good for Kansas chess. F...
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.