I've tried to do some chess art with my watercolors, but so far haven't produced anything worth crowing about. I don't k...

     It began with contributions by Mikhail Chigorin in the late 19th century who lost two close matches for the world championship and is...

     After Steinitz came what is sometimes called the Modern Era which produced players like Lasker, Tarrasch, Schlechter, Maroczy as well...

     I have done posts on the Unknown Steinitz and a shooting incident at his home.  Here we will take a quick look at the legacy of ...

     Having looked at chess in the pre-Morphy period last post, I thought it might be interesting to look at the subsequent eras up to at ...

     Chess as we know it wasn't initiated until about 1485 when important rule changes were made. The main changes were the Queen, wh...

Kmoch      Leningrad has a colorful, and confusing, history. Known as St. Petersburg, the city was renamed Petrograd in 1914, at the beg...