I am pleased to announce that this site is now associated with Dover Publications! Many of the chess books in my library are by Dover; ...

Stockfish, an open source UCI engine that was developed by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba and Joona Kiiski, has become the top ranked engine o...

      Above is our garage a day after the flood showing the three feet of water.  That's a freezer full of meat floating in the for...

  I am temporarily “offline” on this Blog.   Monday night (5-19) here was a huge storm in our area which included a tornado not too fa...

    It has been recomended by, among others, GM Alexei Bezgodov and IM Sergei Soloviov, both of whom have written books on it. Instinct tell...

     After becoming an established artist, Marcel Duchamp turned his focus to playing chess and spent a large part of his life as a seri...

I have added a link on the left under Favorite Sites and Blogs where you can download free engines from ChessOK.   The engines available a...

     Chess960 (or Fischer Random Chess) was invented and advocated by former world champion Bobby Fischer who publicly introduced it in 1996...

     Larry Evans (March 22, 1932 – November 15, 2010), grandmaster, author, and journalist was awarded the IM titlein 1952 and the GM tit...

     While it can hardly be considered scientific, I recently held a small engine tournament at 6 minutes per game between my most used en...

           When you think about it all that time most of us spend playing chess, a game which frankly, as far as I know, has never helped...

     This opening used to be a favorite of Reshevsky and he scored many wins with it by using the Minority Attack and in the process making ...

For a Youtube video biography on Nezhmetdinov see my post HERE .  His opponent in this game, Enrico Paoli (January 13, 1908 – December 15,...

     Most everybody knows the basics of Rook handling: the power of Rooks on open or semi-open files, Rooks on the seventh rank, behind pass...

     The website Chess Openings offered this challenge: fire up the engines and see when, or if, they could find the brilliant 11.Rc1 as wa...

     I have occasionally seen the position after White’s 23rd move presented as a tactics puzzle, but rarely has the complete game been give...

     My favorite chess books are game collections and tournament books and Nottingham 1936 by Alekhine is one of my favorites.      Notti...