Clermont Chess Club

So looking through an old book I found a game NOT in the databases. Not only that, the line doesn't appear to have turned up in any othe...

Over in the "Other Chess Sites" section I have added an entry for a series of related sites. The addition is the " Bobby Fisc...

In a tournament game a couple of weeks back I reached the following position as White, with Black to play: Black to move Here Black ...

Was looking around some files and stumbled upon an Anderssen-Kieseritsky rook endgame from London 1851. I then found something that surprise...

The last time we mentioned English GM Simon Williams on this blog the Ginger GM hisownself had invented a new opening, the Bongcloud Transve...

Via the Chess Unlimited twitter feed, I was directed to a reddit involving a problem posted on LiChess , apparently published in 1928 by a...

I took about five years off from playing tournament chess from 2011 until 2016. When I came back, I found that I was getting very fatigued b...

Various sites have announced that Nigel Short will run for FIDE President. I believe the news was broken by Nicholas Bergh in the Norwegian ...

Sorry for the absence in recent months. My desktop computer died and took all my passwords with it. I am only now getting everything back in...

After a particularly horrific showing at the Southern Class Championship in Orlando last weekend (very ably run by the Continental Chess Ass...

I spent some time this evening looking through Edward Winter's Chess Notes to see if he had published anything on Spassky's vodka s...

Today I came across a memorable quote from Spassky. It contains easily remembered maxims about a certain kind of middle game, and I will ret...

[WARNING: This post is long and rambling. But now that I've written it I'm going to post it.] In the post that will follow this on...

I was looking at Boris Spassky quotes earlier today (another post will follow with the why), and came across the following anecdote, which I...

The Autumn edition of Florida Chess (the Florida Chess Association quarterly publication) contained a couple of articles about the death o...