In 1932, in Semmering, Austria, a match between two leading masters, the Russian born German Efim Bogoljubow (1889-1952) and the Austri...

     John F. Hurt Jr. (1914-1993, 78 years old), a prominent West Virginia player, moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1960. From then on, he bec...

     The 1948 US Championship was held in South Fallsburg, New York which is located in the Catskill Mountains in SE New York.       The cou...

     In October of 1967, U.S. news headlines were dominated by intense Vietnam War protests, including the 1000,000 person march on the Pent...

       While visiting the CCLR engine rating site I noticed something interesting. Stockfish 18 is still the #1 rated engine, but the #2 en...

Borislav Ivkov      Borislav Ivkov (1933-2022, 88 years old) was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and was awarded the IM title in 1954 and the G...

     Felix Fischer's dates of birth and death are unknown. Chessmetrics estimates his highest rating to have been 2391 which came in 19...

Some readers may find Lucas Chess helpful and it’s free!     

     Pyotr Dubinin (1909 – 1983, 74 years old) was warded the IM title in 1950 and the Correspondence GM title in 1962. He was joint USSR C...

     Moshe Czerniak was born in 1910 in Warsaw and died in Tel Aviv in 1984. He emigrated to Palestine in 1934, where he became national ch...

       As often happened in the old days before engines games were annotated based on the result and every move of the winner was praised an...

Karpinski      The 1900 annual New York State Chess Association meeting in Clayton, New York commanded the attention of the chess public dur...

     Yesterday (Tue. 3-17) was an exciting day in this part of the country! Around 8am there was a loud window rattling boom that left peopl...

Belavenets      The Russians Play Chess by Irving Chermev is a collection of 50 great attacking games from the years 1925-1945 (in my 2nd ed...