The longest game I've ever participated in comes to an infuriating and ignominious end only a handful of moves away from the mate. Read more »
Quite possibly, one of the most difficult chess problems ever designed.... White to move and win Read more »
I entered the Smith-Morra Gambit tourny here at chess.com. I expect there will be many interesting games but I'm most interested in seeing the approach different people take when playing the black pieces. As of this writing there ... Read more »
I stumbled across an interesting article from the Rocky Mountain News that contained the following anecdote: "Victor Traibush of Boulder, the Colorado Chess State Champion in 1955, 1967, and 1970, spent time with Fischer during his match agai... Read more »
Despite the inherent disadvantage, I love playing Black. The sheer variety of defenses available to the Black player has always appealed to me. More specifically, I've always been partial to hypermodern opening theory.&nb... Read more »
One of my all-time favorite chess stories: Journalist: It might be inconvenient to interrupt our profound discussion and change the subject slightly, but I would like to know whether extraneous, abstract thoughts ever enter your head while playing... Read more »