Last year I plunked down 10 dollars to join our office NCAA tournament pool. Since I know next to nothing about college basketball, I pick...

  If you enjoy reading my blog but don’t play chess, please bear with the next couple of paragraphs.   Here is one of my favorite chess...

  I have two weeks off from teaching chess at the St. Francis Chess Club since there is no school next Friday and the week after is spring b...

  I woke up on Saturday morning and I was fairly surprised. I had assumed that the world was coming to an end since the Republican House and...

  This is the height of chess season in Europe and Russia. In January the super-GM Tata Steel championship at Wijk aan Zee took place with ...