This sacrifice is always fascinating, but the question is always, “Is it sound?”   Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t.   The basic con...

      It has just come to my attention that, sadly, the great site Chessville no longer exists. Fortunately the ARCHIVED VERSION is still ...

      GM Jan Gustafsson is a leading expert on the Marshall Attack ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.c...

Chesshood is a new correspondence and forums site that has only just recently launched.   The site says you can play correspondence chess...

       The New In Chess 2012/7 (the Olympiad issue) has a disgusting article by Nigel Short wherein he claims the Olympiads are in essen...

Back in September I reported that Critter may be the best engine around for endgame analysis.   I recently ran the position given in the...

The following position is from Bronstein vs. Euwe, Zurich 1956 where Black has just played 14…Bg4and Bronstein replied 15.Qxc5 which N...

From time to time I enjoy going over my old games with an engine just to see how I did back in the old days.   More often than not it’s di...

      “The only reason the computer was banned from the competition in the first place was the UNFAIR, RACIST and ILLOGICAL prejudice agai...

      Thanks to reader Paul Gottlieb, I recently purchased Najdorf’s Zurich 1953 which has for the first time been translated into English ...

I recently won a lost game when my opponent exceeded the time limit in a won position.   Despite the fact that I had blundered a P earlier...

      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...