In his excellent book The Road to Chess Improvement GM Alex Yermolinsky gives some general advice on how to play the Sicilian. In the ...

     Back in 2012 IM Shahade published an article in Chess Life Online about opening books that was interesting and informative. Here’s ...

    Having discussed modern correspondence in the previous post, let’s take a look at how they played in the pre-engine days. In the follow...

   Modern CC Master's Work of Art    I ran into a friend the other day who asked me if I was still playing chess and I told him jus...

    Caruana   As most of you know, the Sinquefield Cup chess tournament is history. Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana, Hika...

SCID vs. PC is the most fully-featured non-commercial chess program available. It is a very good and very fast database program similar to C...

     A couple of years ago I posted information on the Dimock Theme Tournament which featured the Urusov Gambit. The main line of the Ur...

      American Master James M. Hanham (January 4, 1840 Woodville, Mississippi – December 30, 1923 New York, New York) played in many Amer...

1st Reshevsky 7½ 2nd Capablanca 7 3rd Thomas 5 =4th Klein 4½ =4th Sergeant 4½ =6th Reilly 4 =6th Fairhurst 4 8th Milner...

      A few days ago while playing over some old games I ran across one played by Delmar and found it to be filled with complications. Th...