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

     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...

     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...

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

     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...

     The St. Petersburg tournament of 1914 featured the joint winners of the 1914 All Russian Championship (Alekhine and Nimzovich) and play...

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

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

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

     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...

     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 ...

     When the Kansas State Chess Association mrt in Wichita from December 26-30 in 1922 things were looking pretty good for Kansas chess. F...