According to Chessmetrics the 9th century London player Rudolph Loman achieved an estimated high rating of 2570 in 1892 and that ranke...

     Istvan Bilek (August 11, 1932 – March 20, 2010, 77 years old) was a Hungarian GM (awarded in 1962) and a three-time Hungarian Champion ...

     I am still tinkering with my new Fritz 19 and randomly picked one of my old tournament games to let it analyze just to see how well I p...

     Looking at a crosstable from the 1944 US Championship that was won by Arnold Denker ahead of Dr. Reuben Fine, I.A. Horowitz and Herman ...

     You probably never heard of the Czech master Vincenz Hruby (September 9, 1856 – July 16, 1917). That’s too bad because he seems to have...

Walbrodt      While browsing through an 1899 copy of the American Chess Monthly I noticed the following game which John F. Barry, a leading ...

     A few days ago I decided to purchase Fritz 19 to replace version 17. Because I am a Life Member of the USCF I made the purchase through...

     In 1933, President Roosevelt and Nazi Germany were all on center stage in the news. People were eating cucumber sandwiches and carrot c...

       The other day I was searching for something and stumbled across some excellent Youtube videos on Chessbase products which I consider ...

     Murray Marble (February17, 1885 – February 17, 1919, 34 years old) of Worcester, Massachusetts is virtually unknown and when he passed ...

     In the early 1900s all the chess sets sold in the United States were manufactured in Europe. When World War I broke out in 1914, the su...

     One of the books in my collection is 107 Great Chess Battles, 1939-1945 by Alekhine. The games, almost all of them played by others, we...

     In the 1958-59 US Championship Bobby Fischer was not only a Grandmaster, but also an international star and the talk of world chess. He...

     While on the subject of forgotten Philadelphia players, today’s post features another one from long ago, Philip Physick Randolph (Octo...