Starting in the mid-1960s, Larsen and Fischer were the two strongest players outside the Soviet Union and of the two, Larsen was th...

     The position below is a position from the game Shirov vs. Piket, Amsterdam 1995, that was first published in New in Chess and late...

     About 15 years ago a book called The Beginners Game came out.  The author was someone named Pafu.  He advocated the opening moves for ...

    Bad Pistyan, a health resort, was noted for its hot mineral springs and was a favorite of many well known European celebrities. On...

Las Vegas - October 8-12, 2015 - $1,000,000 PRIZE GUARANTEED       Nakamura won a hundred thousand dollars after a controversy invol...

… according to Bent Larsen.       In his book The Art of Sacrifice in Chess Rudolf Spielmann distinguished between real and sham ...

    Charles Sherwood Stratton, aka General Tom Thumb , (1838-1883) was the most famous midget in history. See the Tom Thumb Exhibit at th...

     Leon Stolzenberg (18 October 1895 in Austria – 25 October 1974) was an American master. Stolzenberg had been a medic in the hospital at...

Reinfeld     Like comedian Rodney Dangerfield , Reinfeld could have easily used the phrase, “I don't get no respect!” In addition t...

     I have never paid much attention to this engine but decided to try it out after seeing the reading about its playing style on the eng...