On March 14, 2005, British IM and Correspondence GM Simon Webb (born June 10, 1949) was stabbed to death in Sweden by his son after Web...

     In the Fall of 1903, Max Judd, at the time a noted player from St. Louis, Missouri was in Philadelphia and took occasion to have a litt...

        The 1953 U.S. Intercollegiate Individual Championship Tournament was held at Columbia University in New York City and the 36 contest...

     WIM Arianne Caoili was born in Manila on December 22, 1986 and she died at the age of 33 on March 30, 2020 of injuries from a car crash...

    This morning finds me thankful that we survuved yesterday afternoon with no damage! At about 4:00pm it grew dark and we were hit with a ...

        When Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1872-1906), one of the strongest players in the world at the time who was also known for his blindfold ...

     Ponziani, the Man:       Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani (1719 – 1796) was an Italian law professor, priest, chess player, composer and the...

     In the 1955 Women’s Candidate tournament in Moscow several times Woman's Champion of the USSR Olga Rubtsova scored15-4 to to take ...

Meir Romm at play      The winner of the following game, Israeli Master Meir Romm (1939-1998) is virtually unknown, but his opponent the Ita...

     The major news stories in 1943 were Churchill and Roosevelt held the Casablanca Conference in January. They pledged that the war would ...