Instead we’ll listen to Leroy Van Dyke (born October 4, 1929) a country music singer best known for his hits, The Auctioneer (1956) and...

Richardson in 1895      Looking at Chessmetrics rating list a while back for the year 1901, I noticed the name of Philip Richardson who ...

     In other news from 1899, on April 21 and 22 the British universities of Cambridge and Oxford fielded a team that defeated the America...

     In an article appearing in the January 15, 1899 edition of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, former world champion William (he had change...

     Andrew Soltis holds the world record for giving out exclamation marks. At least I think he does for giving the following game 21 of t...

       That was the title of an article by Fred Waitzkin that appeared in the June 11, 1984 issue of New York Magazine (pages 30-35).   ...

Our hotel marina      Now that we are back from a mini-vacation things have returned to normal. Last week saw us leaving on Tuesday and...

     C.J.S. Purdy once observed the universal truth that all players want to improve and gave some thought on whether or not there was a s...

    The year 1897 was a monumental one chesswise. The Anglo-American cable match, a series of yearly matches between teams from the US an...

     I recently came across a blog and an editorial that were interesting and I thought I’d share them. A blog that is quite interesting a...

The legendary Pal Benko passed away at the age of 91 on August 26th.

     Clarice Benini (January 8, 1905 - September 8, 1976) was a WIM and was the strongest Italian female player of all time. Never married...