Can you believe that’s what Sveshnikov said? Carlsen won the 2013 Tata Steel with a fantastic score of 10/13 and as a result many peo...

As mentioned in a recent post, I purchased the Chess Enthusiast app for the Nook Color and its Cockatoo engine plays quite well; I can’t ...

      Taking the advice of reader Paul Gottlieb, I recently made a Nook purchase of Najdorf’s Zurich 1956 tournament book and have not been ...

Here’s an interesting K and P ending.   White’s first move looks fairly obvious, but an interesting situation arises if he mistakenly pl...

      The endgame with a K+2Ns versus K+P is unusual because the by possessing extra P the K cannot be stalemated (provided the blockade on...

      Stan Vaughan, a Life Master with the USCF whose rating briefly peaked at over 2300, was born in Murray, Kentucky in 1956. He was recog...

      ChessEnthusiast   is a Nook Chess App I bought a few weeks ago for a dollar.  After downloading it I found I had the same problems t...

One of my all time favorite books is Bronstein's Zurich 1953. It has all the amazing games played by the world’s best players of the day...

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      On Dec 27, 1883 David A. Mitchell was born in Philadelphia and was briefly one of the country’s most prominent chess writers. Brief ...

      Trying to improve involves a lot of pain and anguish. I knew one player many years ago who was about 1700, but in a couple of years b...

      Poliakoff passed away at 6:30 on the evening of May 31, 2011 in Bonham, Texas at the age of 82 after a long and courageous battle with...

Over the years I’ve played many offhand games against my opponent in this game.   He has not played OTB in quite a few years but I think h...

For all you left handed chess players, there is now a special Left Handed Chess Set available. The difference in Left Handed Chess lies...

      Mrs. John W. Gilbert is known for her long announced mates; 21 and 35 moves! Beyond those chess curiosities, Ellen Gilbert was a ve...