Yesterday I played three server games at 15 minutes per side. I lost one to a 2300+ player who was ‘using.’ How do I know he was and engin...

     The Sons of the Pioneers are one of the United States' earliest Western singing groups. Since 1933, through many changes in membe...

     In my 1963 edition of Pachman’s Modern Chess Strategy he wrote a brief section concerning chess and the ‘cybernetic machine.’   By cyb...

      The CCLR discussion board had a post last month on two matches a member ran pitting these two engines against each other in a matc...

     Andor Lilienthal, the last of the original 27 GM’s, died at his home in Budapest in 2010 at the age of 99. Lilienthal who is largely u...

For some reason as a kid I always loved these kinds of things:        I don’t know what the fascination was but I remember getting a lo...

     While looking over the games of some of the top players on Lechenicher SchachServer I came across a position from a game by one of the ...

Erik Estrada vs. Windom at the Hollywood Celebrity Tournament 1988      Actor William Windom, a Manhattan-born character actor, was born...

     Robatsch (October 14, 1929) was a leading Austrian player and a noted botanist. He moved to Graz at the age of 17 to become a student ...

     I first met my Australian opponent back in 2008 and lost against his Dragon Sicilian when I prematurely advanced two (!) passed Pawns o...

      If you don’t own one of these handy little things, buy one! They are cheap…you can get one for as little as $20      If you want t...

      The stated aim of Chess24 is to become the home for players from beginners to professionals. The site allows you to play chess in...

      Besides chess a lot of players seem to like backgammon, Go and poker. Go is fun, but I never met many people who knew how to play ...

     Zvonko Vranesic (born 4 October 1938) is a Croatian–Canadian International Master both OTB and in correspondence chess. He is an elect...