After finally purchasing a new laptop last month it took some time to get used to Windows 11. After a lot of tinkering, things like col...

     A 15-year-old Bobby Fischer dominated the 1958/59 US Championship that was held in New York City and in the process played some remarka...

     Ion Gudju (1897 – 1988) was a Romanian master. He was the son of Hercules Anton Gudju (1846-1920), one of the early promoters of Romani...

     Fourteen years ago Steve Lopez did a YouTube review for USCF sales in which he explained what all the numbers associated with the engin...

     Yesterday and today we are having an interesting day! Smoke from Canadian wildfires in Ontario, roughly 500 to 700 miles away, have ma...

     Even during WWII chess was being played. The German military command included chess in its Truppenbetreuung (Pastimes for soldiers) pr...

Historically 1935 was a year with some far-reaching consequences. In international headlines, the Nazis repudiated the Versailles Treaty and...

     Since returning from vacation a while back I have been busy with non-chess stuff and getting a new laptop with Windows 11, which I don’...

     Marianne Elizabeth Lane Hickey (1933-2024), also known as Lisa Lane, was the U.S. Women's Champion in 1959. She appeared on the cov...

       I met Robert Byrne (1928-2013) in the mid-1970s and can best describe him as dignified, but affable. Byrne was awarded the GM title ...

     Geza Fuster (1910 in Budapest, Hungary – 1990 in Toronto, Canada) was a Hungarian-Canadian IM. He won his first of many Budapest Champ...

       Borislav Kostic (1887-1963) was a Serbian player who was named one of the original Gms in 1959. He is little known today, but in the ...

     Before 1961, the great Soviet patriarch Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995) accepted only a handful of invitations to play in non–Communist ...

     Not chess ones, but the past few days have been spent setting up a new laptop that has twice the power and storage as the old one. It h...