Down near Black Lake, Louisiana in 1934, FBI agents ambushed and killed bank robbers and murderers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Anot...

     Once upon a time, some 30 years ago or maybe it was more, I entered a postal tournament with the Correspondence Chess League of America...

     Ludwig Bachmann(August 11,1856 – June 22, 1937, 80 years old) was a German chess author and chess historian. He worked for the Bavarian...

     Back in 2006 Andrew Soltis published a book titled The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century in which games were judged on 1) overal...

     The 37th American Chess Federation Congress (the forerunner of the US Open) was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from August 15-30, 1...

     Before the Elo system, the Soviets, as explained in the November 28th post, Short, Ultra-Sharp Game by Nezhmetdinov, had a rating syste...

     The year 1958 started off with Raymond Weinstein winning the US Junior championship in Homestead, Florida and 14-year old Bobby Fischer...

     Officially, the 1913 Scheveningen tournament celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the Nederlandschen Schaakbond, and was held in Scheveni...

     One television station has broadcast the slogan, “Cleveland, the Best Location in the Nation”. Don’t believe it. In Cleveland the summ...

     In Russia, back in the early days before rating systems, the Master title could be earned by scoring 50 percent in the Soviet Champions...