I posted previously on the 6-Pawns Attack . This time I was a little more conservative and only played the 5-Pawns Attack. I like to meet ...

      Here’s a fun test consisting of 20 questions designed to tell your ‘chess personality.’      I was rated a Technician which seems...

      A while back I was facing an online opponent who happens to be rated around 2100 OTB and met his Petroff Defense with 3.Nc3 hoping ...

      International Master Emory A. Tate, Jr. (born December 27, 1958, Chicago, Illinois) has a current USCF rating of 2355. Not so high ...

      Speaking of Griffiths’ book in the last post prompted me to pull it out and thumb through it; one of the first positions I stopped ...

     …except those that aren’t.      What about double Rook endings?  Are they more likely, less likely or likely to be drawn with the...

     Little is known about Philip Woliston though I believe IM John Donaldson and John Hilbert wrote an article on him for Chess Life back ...

     The 1940 was the third championship tournament. Prior to that the title has been decided by match play until Frank Marshall had steppe...

     I’ve been playing a lot online lately and am bored playing the Sicilian over and over, so gave the Wing Gambit a try. It worked OK, bu...

     Boris Spassky held the World Championship title from 1969 to 1972. In 1969 Spassky defeated Tigran Petrosian to become World Champion,...

     I played some guy, let’s call him Butthead, a couple of games recently who ignored opening principles in our two games and as a result ...