Jon Speelman’s Best Games, published in 1997, is the most recent addition to my library. For those who don’t know, Jonathan Speel,am wa...

     Every player who has ever faced the Sicilian remembers seeing a game where white scores a crushing win using numerous sacrifices. That’...

     Horatio Caro (July 5, 1862 – December 15, 1920) was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, but spent most of his chess career in Berlin...

Grace Kelly      The 1954 US Championship one of the weakest championships ever and it was the probably also the most poorly financed. It wa...

     In 1937, in aviation new Amelia Mary Earhart mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean and the German airship Hindenburg burst in...

     My favorite chess books have always been game collections. My all time favorites are Botvinnik, One Hundred Selected Games, Reshevsky O...

     The following game is a bit boring, but it's redeeming point is the clever finish by the former World Champion. The game was playe...

     The post of Mat 23rd (and a few past posts) was critical of the Stonewall Attack, but here is one that succeeded! It goes way back to t...

     Who first said, 'The pen is mightier than the sword”? The words were first written by novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton ...

     The 1992 US Open was held in Dearborn, Michigann, a suburb of Detroit. The tournament was won by GM Gregory Kaidanov ahead of John Fedo...

  Golmayo ` Celso Golmayo y Zúpide (April 24,1820 - April 1, 1898) was a Spanish born Cu;am player and was the first Cuban player to partic...