Hijab Wrapup

Remember Hijab Hubris (October 2016)? Here's the final result. Interview and Press Conference Women's World Chess Champion 2017 (1...

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A Short History of CCL

Last year, in Chess and Social Trends (October 2016), I kicked off the ongoing 'Chess and Sociology' series with a post about a huge...

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More about 'Outliers'

Whenever chess pops up in my Yahoo News feed, I try to use it as the basis of a blog post. The last time this happened was for Last World C...

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Korchnoi's Career 1946-1977, Long Events

Continuing with Viktor Korchnoi's Tournament, Match, and Exhibition Record (TMER; 1946-2015) , in my previous post, Korchnoi's Caree...

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Branching Investigations

For my previous Flickr Friday post, Kitchen Sicilian , I had a choice between two equally worthy photos. Good thing that I'm running th...

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Kitchen Sicilian

Pick any 8-by-8 pattern on an infinitely sized checkerboard. Add a complete set of chess pieces using the traditional start position. What h...

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Blog Search Tool

Note to followers of all Blogspot.com blogs, like this one. Recently the blog search tool has been much improved. The search result used to ...

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March 1967 'On the Cover'

As 'On the Cover' moves into its fourth year of looking back at American chess 50 years ago (see March 1964 'On the Cover' ,...

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Korchnoi's Career 1946-1977, Major Events

After the previous post, Korchnoi's Career 1976-2000, Major Events , I again used the Chessmetrics.com data (see that post for a link) t...

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Paved with Questions

After a short break from chess blogging, what better way to jump back in than a post on Top eBay Chess Items by Price ? In my single previou...

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Correlating Chess with the 'Real World'

In this series on The Sociology of Chess (November 2016), I've been using art to illustrate some of the most obvious themes, as in the p...

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Blogging @ Chess.com

Have you ever wondered how to blog at Chess.com? Using Chess.com: How To Blog (4:43) • 'Chess.com Vice President Danny Rensch explains...

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A Personal Category

A couple of personal posts over the past year -- Still There After All These Years (January 2016) and Photographic Proof of Presence (Februa...

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Photographic Proof of Presence

While gathering background info on last week's post, Joop van Oosterom (1937–2016) , I flipped through old copies of Europe Echecs (EE)...

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Korchnoi's Career 1976-2000, Major Events

The previous milestone on Viktor Korchnoi's Tournament, Match, and Exhibition Record (TMER; 1946-2015) was Korchnoi's Career 1976-20...

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Chess Boards, All in a Row

Given how much I like paintings here on Top eBay Chess Items by Price , has it really been more than three months since I last featured one?...

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Max Euwe, Max Euwe

A strong feeling of deja vu told me that I had featured the 'Max Euwe Centrum' in a previous edition of Flickr Friday , but I could...

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Joop van Oosterom (1937–2016)

It's been a bad period for former World Correspondence Champions. Last month we lost Hans Berliner (1929-2017) , and this month we learn...

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A Chess Valentine

See also Romance in Chess , ('What could possibly be less romantic than chess?), and 'Valentine, Be Mine' ... Does Not Compute!...

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Korchnoi's Career 1976-2000, One View

My ongoing project to construct Viktor Korchnoi's Tournament, Match, and Exhibition Record (TMER; 1946-2015) , currently has three secti...

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