The gambit is named after the Welsh sea Captain William Davies Evans, the first player known to have employed it. The first game with ...

      Sounds easy…just let the engine run for a while then play its top choice. But, like I said in the past, there’s more to it than just ...

Sometimes it’s fun to play over your old games. Of course most of the time it’s also pretty painful because all those brilliancies and well...

Great website for browsing! The Chess Collector specializes in rare, antiquarian and collectable chess literature. From chess books to manus...

     The main organizer of Salzburg 1942, Ehrhardt Post, the Chief Executive of Nazi Grossdeutscher Schachbund, intended to bring together t...

My name's Forrest Gump.  People call me Forrest Gump. Did you know that in addition to being a great ping pong player, Forrest was ...

Few people are aware that Reshevsky kept a winter home in Sunrise, Florida (Sunrise is situated in the heart of South Florida's tourist ...

      Capa's opponent in this game was Juan Corzo y Principe (June 24, 1873–September 27, 1941).  Corzo was a Spanish–Cuban master, an...

        What are the factors that define success? How does one become successful in life in general and in chess in particular? Peter Zhda...

Chess DB is a new site, still in Beta, that allows you to search for players - biography, games, playing style, tournaments, etc. Accor...

      After prowling forums dealing with chess engines, I have come up with a general consensus of the strengths and weaknesses of variou...

I recently played a 5 minute game on Playchess and it served as a reminder why I don’t play blitz; I need three days to select a move, not 3...

      For the past several months now I have been using the latest version of Stockfish on Lechenicher SchachServer instead of Houdini (both...

  This is a fun site to visit! I had a lot of fun on RECON64. It’s a move prediction exercise where you can predict up to four moves...

      Charles Weldon (b. 1939 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - d. 1993 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) was a master and a professor of computer science at...

      Earlier this month on the FIDE website , President, Kirsan E.T. Ilyumzhinov,wrote, “I am proud to announce today’s launch of the limit...

      Olafsson was born 26 January 1935 and is an Icelandic GM and former president of FIDE. Few contemporary players have heard of Olaf...