The Ruy Lopez, Open Defense (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4) is an active, counterattacking response for black in...

       One of my first books on strategy was Modern Chess Strategy by Pachman and it is the one from which I learned the most. As with all t...

     Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur by Max Euwe and Walter Meiden was originally published in 1963 and has since been reprinted by Dover. A...

     Charles Blaje (June 12, 1880 0 May 18, 1961, 80 years old) was born in London and emigrated to Winnipeg, Canada in 1903 before serving ...

     One of the earliest game collections I had was Botvinnik’s 100 Selected Games and it along with Reshevsky On Chess had the covers worn ...

     This is another game Fischer played in the 1963/64 U.S. Championship. It’s mot especially brilliant, but it’s fascinating to watch ho...

     Once upon a time 353 West 57th St \reet in New York City was the home of the Henry Hudson Hotel, a landmark building constructed in 192...

     I never played over many Morphy games, but I probably should have because they are very instructive. His opponents made a lot of typica...

    In online Blitz games my favorite defense to 1.e4 is the Danish Gambit Reversed. It’s unsound for sure, but it's also reckless and a...

     There are millions of games in my database and who knows what’s lurking in it? The other day I started poking around and playing throug...

     A game in which there are moves that are weak and lead to disaster often lead to amusing miniatures. Like masterpieces they can be i...

     In 1932, in Semmering, Austria, a match between two leading masters, the Russian born German Efim Bogoljubow (1889-1952) and the Austri...