In 1955, Dwight D. Eisenhower was President and the year ended with Rosa Parks getting arrested in Montgomery, Alabama on a disorderly ...

     I came across some games on the BritBase site which is the British chess game archive. The result was the previous post on Frank Parr...

     Frank Parr (17 December 1918 – 28 December 2003) was an English player who was British Boys (Under 18) champion in 1935. Parr won the ...

     I remember several years ago an interesting and sometimes heated discussion arose on a chess forums about how good GM’s are compared to...

     George N. Treysman (1881-1959) was an exceptionally strong coffeehouse player from New York City who is little known today. Chessmetri...

` After Frank Marshall retired in 1936, the US Championship had consisted of biennial championship tournments even through the years of WW2....

     Tartakover told the story about the time some of the participants in the 1922 London tournament visited the zoo and and as they watched...

       There was a tournament in 1929 that was won by Capablanca who finished with a superb +13 -0 =1 which put him 1.5 points ahead of Tar...

     Rudolf Spielmann (1882-1942, 55 years old), The Last Romantic, was born in Vienna, Austria. He was the Nordic Champion in 1919 and the ...

     The 75-player 1955 US Amateur Championship was won by Clinton L. Parmelee of Newark, New Jersey. The venue was the Mohegan Country Club...