In England in 1920, popular toys included mechanical model trains, wind-up metal cars, trucks, and lead soldiers modeled after World...

     In January of 1932, the chess world suffered a sever loss kiss when the brilliant Dutch masterr Daniek Noteboom (1910-1932) caught pneu...

     Cleveland, Ohio is a city with a greater metropolitan area population of approximately 2.2 million that is located on the southern sho...

     On September 5th Stockfish 19 wa released. Aside from technical improvements it is reported to be 44 points stringer than version 18 w...

Skuja      For his entire career Mikhail Tal (1936-1992, 55 years old) was known and admired for his style of sharp play and lack of comprom...

     The 1974 U.S. Correspondence Championship ended in 1976 and was won by Anthony Cayford (1939-2005, 65 years old). He was 1962 Canadian...

        When I purchased the new laptop a while back I also spent about $20-25 for a case to put the hard drive from the old laptop in so I ...

     In one of the first chess books I ever had, The Golden Treasury if Chess, the author, Al Horowitz wrote, “In the course of the decades ...

       In the previous post I mentioned Fischer’s opinion of Lasker and an alert reader called my attention to the fact that Fischer had voi...

     Emanuel Lasker, the second official World Champion, reigned for an unmatched 27 years from 1894 to 1921. Some modern day Grandmasters ...

     1968. It a was a turbulent year filled with vitriolic political campaigns, assassinations, social protests and monumental space explora...

     During the last couple of months I have spent some time getting acquainted with Widows 11 on the new laptop and tinkering with the Ches...

     America's Golden Boy, Bobby Fischer's decisive win in the Interzonal at Palma de Mallorca Interzonal in 1970 wasn't a big s...

   Wallis in 1958   The Southsea 1949, tournament (the Stevenson Memorial and SCCU Championship) took place from April 13 to 23, 1949, at t...