Tim Harding writing in his column, The Kibitzer, for ChessCafe wrote: For the second time in succession, Topalov has shown himself to be a...

I just read a forum post on cheating detection at ChessCube. I’m not familiar with the site so checked it out. They have this warning post...

I have added two new pdf booklets for downloading. The first is on Tartakower and has 67 games “annoFritzed” and a brief bio. The second con...

I finished my second game against a player named "donidon" at QA and it was also a drawn B&P ending. I had sac'd a N for 3...

My copy of Chess Life arrived today. As usual it got a quick read and then thrown in the trash. Truth is I’m not all that interested in prof...

“When playing the main lines you are standing on the soldiers of giants, repeating moves and ideas that were found by better players than yo...

I recently ran across a free program that may be of use. It’s called Chess Position Trainer . It was developed by a player to manage his ope...

Speaking of Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky . In 1925 the first international tournament was held in Moscow and one game of particular interest was...

Soviet Master Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky was not among Russia’s very best (although he was skilled enough to be the three-time champion of Len...

I put Chess Hotel on this Blog because it’s quick and easy to sign on and play there. I’ve never been real good at Blitz Chess…when Howard S...

I just finished a game in a tournament at Queen Alice where I had two very difficult B endings against a player named ‘donidon’ from South A...

Chess grandmaster and former world champion Anatoly Karpov, who has waged a highly public campaign in defense of his nomination as Russia...

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I just played a 10 minute game with Black on Chess Hotel where I played the Two Knights Defense and my opponent, probably the strongest I’ve...

Franklin K. Young occupies a unique niche in the chess world because of his serious effort to reduce chess to a mathematically exact system ...

The interest of psychologists in chessplayers is twofold. First as a medium through which to study the thought processes, chess has a suffic...

In case anybody missed it I recently posted one of my games using the QGD-Lasker Defense on this Blog . I said in that post it results in ...

I just ran across a new chess forum site called, imaginatively enough, Chess Forum . Apparently it just started recently. Pay them a visit a...

Who, you ask? I remember him as an obnoxious little brat who always rubbed people the wrong way. He disappeared off the face of the earth,...

I was reading a couple of forum posts about openings again. Several people were discussing that most favorite of all topics: openings. The q...

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On one forum some beginner asked a question to the effect of how good could you get at chess without studying openings. The advice he got wa...

Cecil J.S. Purdy (27 March 1906 - 6 November 1979 ) International Master and winner of four Australian Championships. Purdy was effective a...

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