Drawing and Not Winning in Chess: Janowski vs Blackburne
Here's an old game between the Polish-born Dawid Janowski (1868-1927) and the Englishman known as "The Black Death," Joseph Blackburne (1841-1924). At the time of the game, the pair were…
Celebrating Chess Champions: Vasily Smyslov
By Andrey Terekhov Vasily Smyslov, the 7th World Chess Champion, was born on this day, 102 years ago. He played in four chess World Championships from 1948 to 1958 and…
Author of the Month: Johan Hellsten
The Mastering...Strategy series has quite a long background. In the years 2003-2007 I was teaching chess at the University of Tarapacá in Arica, Chile. Its director Emilio Rodríguez was (still…
Forward Chess Highlights: February
There is an abundance of instructive chess games and positions in Chess Parallels 1: Strategy and Tactics and Chess Parallels 2: Endgames, the new brace of books celebrating the life,…