In 2017, a restored historic mansion in Minneapolis sold for $1 million. The identity of the buyer and seller were hidden behind limi...

Morton Sobell, spy      Morton Sobell (April 11, 1917 – December 26, 2018), yes, he was 101 years old, was an American engineer who is k...

     The Cafe Boulevard located at 156 Second Avenue in New York City was the venue for a “National Tournament” that was sponsored by the ...

     You probably wouldn’t have wanted to be living in New York City back in 1893. That was the year of a hurricane known as the Midnight...

     Forty-four years is a long time and I don’t remember the hotel’s name where the Eastern Open was played in Washington, D.C. in 1975, ...

     Back in the old days (1960s and 70s) two of my favorite young players were James Tarjan and Raymond Weinstein. Both had an attacking...

Paul Keres      In the summer of 1936, sandwiched between the tournaments at Moscow and Nottingham, an international tournament was orga...

     A while back I downloaded Google’s digital copy of a Chess In Philadelphia by Reichhelm and Shipley, a brief history of, as the title...