Having pretty much beaten the correspondence and engine horses to death in this Blog, I think it is time to move on to something else.  I en...

The Endings in Modern Theory and Practice       I was recently browsing and came upon one site where CC was being discussed and some of th...

        I’ve mentioned in previous posts the necessity of using more than one engine to analyze a position AND the necessity of, after compl...

In my last two correspondence tournament sections I’ve managed to get one losing position through carelessness in both of them.   After th...

       Elmārs Zemgalis (born 9 September 1923, Riga, Latvia ) was awarded an Honorary Grandmaster title in 2003.   After the Soviet Union ...

Dr. Daaim Shabazz’s site, The Chess Drum , is an interesting site with current chess news and is primarily devoted to information on Black c...

Extreme Tech " If Rajlich did plagiarize Crafty and Fruit, the reasons are probably financial: Rybka is a commercial piece of software...

Robin Smith examined this position in his book, Modern Chess Analysis and made some interesting observations.       Back in Smith’s day he...

      The International Computer Games Association (ICGA) has conducted an investigation into allegations that, in the chess program Rybka, ...

Came across this interesting site on collecting sets and clocks.  LINK

I reached the following position after 25.Bf2xb6 in a recently completed game on Lechenicher ScachServer:       I was counting on my two ...

        In his book Modern Chess Analysis which is about using chess engines in correspondence play, the late CCGM Robin Smith discusses h...

      Playing over master games is one of the best ways to improve, but only of you cover the moves.   Get a card and cut an aperture in it ...

       I’ve downloaded and have been experimenting with two new engines, Fire 1.5 xTreme and RobboLito 0.09 w32. I’ve haven’t done any serio...

      In a recent article I read Andrey Chitatelsky of Moscow wrote of a couple of proposals to deal with the spate of draws in top level co...

It just occurred to me that this coming Sunday marks the anniversary of the completion of the 24th US Championship and Zonal Tournament that...