It’s probably not possible to drive the 11,600 mile trip from New York City to Mar del Plata in Argentina, but by air the10.330 mile tr...

20-year old Reuben Fine      In 1934, a significant event in US chess was the founding of the American Chess Federation which evolved from t...

     Friday dawned dark and dreary with a temperature of 42 degree and rain showers. There was nothing to do so I tested Komodo 14’s Beginne...

     Everybody loves to study openings and tactics and as much as they love to study those they hate to study endings. In the days of yester...

  Leo Forgacs        Chess engines first reached Grandmaster strength in 1988 when Deep Thought shared first place with GM Tony Miles in the...

     As mentioned in the previous post, Bobby Fischer unexpectedly lost two games in the 1966 US Championship, one of them to Samuel Reshevs...

     The tournament that was designated as the 1966 U.S. Championship actually ended on December 30, 1965; it was Bobby Fischer’s seventh ti...

     In 1935, Britains were enjoying Alfred Hitchcock's mystery thriller movie, The 39 Steps. While on vacation in London, a Canadian, b...

     Exorbitant food prices and cool weather (frost to low 60s) put a bit of a damper on the last few days spent in Niagra Falls, New York....

  ` In his book The Art of Sacrifice in Chgess, Rudolf Spielmann wrote that sacrifices made for material gain can leaves the opponent still ...

     I have Edmar Mednis' old book How to Play Good Opening Moves on my bookshelf, but I have never really read it. I have read some of ...