We should probably be glad we didn’t live in 1922. Life expectancy was only 58.4 years for men and 61.0 years for women!       In those...

     Today is, not to use a meteorological term, crappy if you live on the US east coast...blizzard conditions, rain and lots of wind with p...

     The Marshall Chess Club Championship of 1937 was notable because of the participation of Frank Marshall himself. Before the tournament ...

     Fifty years ago, in 1974, players lost that year were former British Champion C.H.O'D. Alexander who died in Cheltenham, England at...

       Joseph Platz (April 11, 1905, Cologne, Germany – December 30, 1981, Manchester, Connecticut) was a German-American master.  Platz mov...

     Wilhelm Steinitz and Mikhail Chigorin played their first World Championship match in Havana from January 20th until February 24th in 18...

     Tactical play covers such a wide area that it is hard to define it exactly. It's like pornography; hard to define, but you know it ...

     Today’s game is another one played by Roy Fitzgerald, also from the 1905 Western Championship only this one it is one he lost. The winn...

     R oy Gerald Fitzgerald (August 25, 1875 – November 16, 1962) was an attorney, soldier, preservationist, and a member of the United Stat...

     Subtle and skillfully executed Pawn sacrifices are always pleasing especially if the point is not so obvious and in the following game ...