I was fortunate enough to see an advanced screening of the new movie " Pawn Sacrifice ", based upon Bobby Fischer's life ...

Most human players and chess computer engines alike select their moves through a combination of two processes: searching through the con...

If you read this blog regularly or saw my work featured at ChessBase, you will be familiar with the tools I have developed to analyze s...

Using JavaScript tools I recently created, you can determine the square utilization or occupancy for any particular piece, for any gi...

In a previous post, I introduced a suite of Javascript tools that can be used to reformat PGN files and determine square utilization (t...

Ever wonder which squares see the most traffic? Or which squares have pieces 'parked' on them for the longest periods of a game?...

There is a wealth of chess information available now on the internet, and arguably the fastest and most useful repository for chess is no...

For a blog about Chess and Science , you might expect more articles about the intersection between the two. Indeed, I have occasionally w...

In 2012, I played quite a few chess games. I was active on Chess.com , playing 41 turn-based correspondence style games (with a 28-8-5 W...

You can find another one of my book reviews at Chesscafe.com . (Previously, I reviewed Walter Browne's "The Stress of Chess"...

Recently a team of researchers published an article  (PDF format) in which they monitored the heart rate of Chess players during a game (A...

Here, I will describe a new type of chess puzzle, which I call Scrambled Chess . This is going to be a small example puzzle; I will commen...

In a previous post, I introduced the topic of mutual information. This is a statistical analysis technique that can be used to determine ...

International Master Gary Lane runs a very informative, interesting, and entertaining column at ChessCafe.com called Opening Lanes, in w...

This post is concerned with the line 1.e4 c5 2.Bc4 e5 3.Nc3 , or Line C in the series. See the introductory post for this series for Line ...

I have recently reviewed a book, Walter Browne's "The Stress of Chess", for the excellent chesscafe.com website. You can check...

This post is concerned with the line 1.e4 c5 2.Bc4 e5 3.c3 , or Line B in the series. See the introductory post for this series for Line A...

Somewhere along their education, most scientists learn about Occam's razor . This principal, attributed to the 14th century logician W...

A few weeks ago, I was in the city on a Sunday, killing somme time while my girlfriend was recording some music ( Check out her itunes p...

Since this blog is about Chess and Science , it is only natural to discuss the nexus between the two: scientific studies that examine some...