An Internet search for these German masters won't turn up much. According to Edo Historical Ratings Fritz Woog's first rating w...

     When I saw this position in a post on Tim Krabbe’s old online site it just had to be checked out. How can this position possibly be leg...

     Knights make excellent in blockaders, but because their range is limited they are best used in this capacity in or near the center. A K...

     As I wrote in a post a few years ago, I am tempted to say winning with the Stonewall Attack can’t be done, but that’s because I tried ...

     Flavio de Carvalho Jr. (916-1990) who was theBrazilian chess champion in 1952 is no to be confused with the famous 20th-century Brazili...

     One of my favorite books is an old one: The Golden Treasury of Chess by Al Horowitz. The book has a controversial history. The man behi...

     Major world events of 1976 included the Mars Landing that sent back the first color photographs of the Martian surface. The supersonic...

       Today’s game was played by the eight year old prodigy Samual Reshevsky in his historic appearance at Leeds, England on August 31, 192...

     Bobby Fischer held a very low opinion of Emanuel Lasker dismissing him as a "weak player" who lacked a deep understanding of ...

     The name and games of the Ukrainian player Isaac Lipmitsky (1923-1959, 35 years old) are not well know, but they should be. Invitation...

    In 2010, Silent Images made a short documentary film about Phiona Mutesi. In 2012, a book was published about her titled The Queen of Ka...

     According to his death notice John (originally Hans) Stapfer, or as he was also known, John Staffer, was born in Switzerland in 1877, o...

     Today through the weekend finds me stuck in a hotel room in Niagara Falls, New York, but there will be no sight seeing because the wife...