From an 1898 the American Chess Magazine article:      "Mr. J. H. Blackburne, the British chess champion, was recently interv...

     I couldn’t resist this old photo with Jackson W. Showalter (left) seated across from Frank Marshal at the 1926 Western Open.      ...

     Rossolimo once bitterly complained that by FIDE rules in effect at the time that he had become listed as ‘inactive’ which made it almos...

Staunton sets by Jaques, European, Chinese and Indian sets...you name it. Interesting sets from the 1600s to the 1920s. There is also a pag...

     I sometimes surf Blogger and other places looking for interesting Blogs and every once in a while I find one. Read 40 years of chess ...

     After the 1948 World Championship was held FIDE began a series of cycles that would select Botvinnik’s challenger. The first Interzonal...

      Wesley Barbasa So is a Filipino-American chess grandmaster and a former chess prodigy. So's Facebook Page .      In October 200...

Chessdom has a full report. SO Wesley-ROBSON Ray-YU Yangyi 6.0 points AZAROV Sergei-NARODITSKY Daniel-ZHOU Jianchao 5.5 points BU Xia...

    The New York Times chess column has been published since 1962 but at the end of Monday’s column there was a note reading, “This is the ...

I played this one on Instant Chess the other day and we both butchered the game. Before I made my 19th move I was hallucinating! I was su...

Here’s a nifty little game where a bad B wiped out a whole opening variation. PGN

     These were factors in this online G30 game played on Instant Chess . One of the most misunderstood pieces is the Bishop. Which piece is...

     The Center Counter Defense is one of the oldest recorded openings. Analysis by Scandinavian masters showed it is playable for Black an...

Need a cartoon about chess? Cartoon Stock has 199 of them.

Most all GM’s have studied the games of past champions and read their books. For example, Bobby Fischer spent an enormous amount of time s...

Everybody is familiar with the Classic B Sac so it’s not often seen and there are few examples in modern GM chess. That’s what makes this ...