Life expectancy was a scant 41.8 years in 1860 and shrunk to 40.0 during the Civil War. Although tuberculosis and dysentery were the bi...

     I recently came across the below diagram and found it quite interesting. It originally appeared in the August 1953 issue of C.J.S. Purd...

     Fred Reinfeld stated that there was no money in writing good chess books, but when he started writing potboilers the money came pouring...

     It is with great sadness that I read of the death of Arthur Feuerstein (December 20, 1935 – February 2, 2022) who passed away at the ag...

     First it was the Roaring Twenties so called because of the supposedly new and less-inhibited lifestyle that many people embraced in thi...

     In 1954, the first Student Olympiad was held in Oslo was won by Czechoslovakia. In April, the first official California Women's Cha...

       There was some serious political news in 1960. On May 1st Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of an American U-2 spy plane, was shot down...

     I don't usually post on weekends, but today is an exception. After another inch of lake effect snow fell last night and the 5 a.m. ...

     Finally, it seems that the worst of the winter storm with its drizzle, ice and 12 inches of snow has moved on to the East Coast and it...

Heitner in 1945      Yesterday was the beginning of an incredible winter storm that in places is 1,600 miles wide and stretches over 2,600 m...

     There used to be and still are many players who prefer to avoid or are unable to play in over the board tournaments.       For some cor...

     As mentioned in my post of January 28th, I've been spending some time lately monkeying around with ChessBase 16 and just uncovered ...