For the bad news: Jim Ablett’s excellent site, Winboard Chess Projects has bitten the dust. The site now reads, “Goodbye and farewell. I...

      Natalia Pogonina’s site has an interesting article by GM Daniel Gormally in which he voiced his opinion on the subject. I found it i...

      Howard Staunton (1810 – 22 June 1874) was generally regarded as having been the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851. Today...

      Play chess online. In addition to regular chess, Chess Hotel offers Fischer Random chess (also known as chess960). When regis...

      Looking through an old issue of the West Virginia Chess Bulletin, May 1961 to be exact, I came across the crosstable for the 1960 Ohio...

    Alekhine and his cat, "Chess" Alekhine’s propensity to fake games in his writings is well known and I just finished rea...

       Bora Kostic (born on 24 February 1887 in Vrsac, died November 3, 1963) was the first Serbian grandmaster. He learned chess at the...

      Chess Skills had an interesting blog post concerning databases and their use back in March of 2011. "Ever since the dawn of c...

      When my laptop’s mother board crapped out Best Buy wanted $400-500 to fix it…that’s more than the computer was worth so it meant a new...

Kindle edition.       The Art of Attack in Chess by Vukovic remains one of the best chess books ever written. In Algebraic notation! ...

       Meek (1814-1865) is best known in the chess world as the president of the first American Chess Congress , but he had a very colorf...

      #1 In the 1942 US Championship he lost on time to Arnold Denker, but when the TD, the eccentric L. Walter Stephens, came up and pic...