As noted in the previous post, under Stalin in April of 1935, the age of legal responsibility was lowered to 12 years old which meant...

     One of my older books is The Russians Play Chess by Irving Chernev; it was originally published in 1947 and updated in 1963 which i...

     I had begun this post on Rosselli del Turco. His featured game against Znosko-Borovsky was played in a small international tournamen...

     “...I disapprove to the Fianchetto Opening altogether whether it take the form of the double Fianchetto or of the movement of the (g-...

           In the 1920s Berlin was a hectic place and in the center of the Weimar culture that was popular during the interwar period b...

     I have a copy of this book, published in 1923, which is subtitled Comprising Over One Hundred And Twenty-five Of His Best Tournament ...

     Who's the greatest of them all? Who's the one we love the most? It seems it depends on who you ask!       One would think ...

Steiner and Lilienthal      Andor Lilienthal, the last of the original 27 GM’s, died at his home in Budapest in 2010 at the age of 99. L...

     July marks the 43rd anniversary of the Manhattan Chess Club’s holding of the first international tournament in New York since 1951 an...

     Anatoly Karpov (born May 23, 1951) was the official world champion from 1975 until 1985 when he was defeated by Garry Kasparov.  He i...

     On January 27, 1921 Samuel Rzeschewski paid his first visit to Cleveland, Ohio at the invitation of the City Club of Cleveland , one...