It is with regret that I must inform my readers that this blog is going on indefinite hiatus. Over the past few months (just abo...

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"...

The internet is perennially abound with discussion over evolutionary biology. It is a topic that surfaces repeatedly in the news, either i...

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...

Every Chess blogger and publisher must at one time grapple with the same issue: how to create and display diagrams and games. I have exp...