The New Thoresen Chess Engines Competition reports that after 48 games Houdini defeated Stockfish by a score of 25 -23.   The complete se...

      I recently posted about Sinisa Loinjak’s winning of the LSS ‘World Championship’ and observed that because of his 51.1% wins 48.9% d...

      John William Collins (September 23, 1912 - December 2, 2001) was a well known author, teacher and master and in 1991 was inducted i...

I recently concluded a correspondence game that has left me baffled.   After arriving at the position below I hit on the idea of a general...

      I came across a chessdotcom post from back in January where Heisman wrote of his one and only meeting with Horowitz. It appears Heism...

      Stockfish 3 is available for download at Stockfish Chess . I don’t have any reports on its performance yet, but one person posting on...

       Littlewood (25 May 1931 – 16 September 2009) was one of England’s leading players for many years and won the British national seni...

       Waterman became a master by the age of 16; his last USCF rating was 2251. He gave actor Peter Falk (tv series Colombo ) lessons i...

Timing out on Chesshood:       Chesshood has introduced a novel idea: In order to keep the site fun and clean, a new feature has be...

      Lechenicher SchachServer has announced the new 2011 LSS World Champion is Sinisa Loinjak of Croatia who has won it for the second tim...

      I have known from the beginning that Fritz 12 has a panel showing a “Hotness meter and a Mate-O-Meter” but have never paid any attenti...

      When I was a kid there was one summer when I used my dad’s workshop to make bird houses which I then sold to old ladies all over the...

      After Fischer returned to chess in 1970 to play in the USSR vs. the Rest of the World tournament in Belgrade Reshevsky was his teamm...

  I was saddened to hear that GM Byrne, 84, passed away at his home in Ossining, NY, Friday.   I met Byrne at the 1974 US Championsh...

I recently came across a site called Orwell Today that has lots of material from Fischer’s second match with Spassky through his time i...

      When Bobby Fischer won the world championship in 1972 his prize money was $250,000. That doesn’t sound like much, but in 2013 dollars...