This is a game from the tournament mentioned in the previous post of October 28th about de Groot. It features a marvelios Queen sacrifi...

     Adriaan de Groot (October 26, 1914 – August i4, 2006, 91 years old) was a psychology professro and a strong amateur player. He represen...

     Wilhelm Steinitz (May 14, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was a Bohemian-Austrian,and later American player whose theoretical teachings revolut...

     If you lived in England in 1834, William IV was the King. The Tolpuddle Martyrs, six farm laborers, were sentenced to be transported to...

     A couple of years ago I did a post about browsing an old Reinfeld potboiler and today’s game is another one taken from the book that y...

     Bertram Brice-Nash, Sr. was born on January 15,1893, in New Braunfels, a small city near San Antonio, Texas. He got married around 1919...

     When analyzing games for this Blog it is not uncommon to run into engine evaluations that I simply do not understand. In many cases run...

     The year was 1865,a pivotal year in American history. With the end of the Civil War, Lincoln's assassination and the beginning of R...

     Alexei Alexandrovich Alekhine (1888-1939) was Alexander’s older brother and a strong amateur player. He served as the Secretary of the ...

     It’s surprising that German master Paul Lipke (June 30, 1870 - March 8,1955, 84 years old) isn’t better known, Chess metrics estimates ...

       In a recent post I mentioned that I have Aquarium 2020 on my laptop and received an e-mail from a reader asking about the Aquarium p...

     Today it’s overcast, cold and dripping rain again; at least it’s sunny in Duluth, Minnesota. I have never been to Minnesota, but I am s...

     Mikhail Tal was born in Riga, Latvia in 1936 and became the youngest world chess champion in 1960 at the age of 23 and died in Moscow i...