Several points:1. This blog is about music, not chess so there's no need to mention this in the comments. It's featured because I have Top Blogger status. If you find this offensive, I'm sorry but I have no control over it. Just contact the power...
Possibly the strongest American player for a time during his peak years Reuben Fine gave up the life of a chess player for that of a psychoanalyst. The old adage went that this career move was “a great loss for ches...
Herman Steiner's immense love for the game lit a spark which brought chess to life in California. He made chess alive for thousands of school children; he created a woman's field for chess in this part of the country. He taught; several of today's...
A few months ago I dipped my toes into the waters of a new blog but could never work up the nerve to dive right in. The blog was/is-to-be about socially minded folk songs of the 20th century and different ways these songs were circulated and...
Recently I've read several nice blog postings, such as this one, featuring Tigran Petrosian. They reminded me of an interview published in "Chess Life and Review," May 1976 (pp. 271-273) after Petrosian won the famous Lone Pine tournament. ...
After Walter Tevis's "Queen's Gambit" was published, "Chess Life" jumped on the publication of a chess novel and devoted much of its May 1983 issue to the book. It occurred to me that some people might like to take a look at some of th...
Such a title bodes the unraveling of a mysterious plot. There is no maudlin 007 mystery here; nevertheless there is a plot. Didn't your grade-school marm teach you that every story fact or fiction must reveal a plot?...
John Sebastian was born in 1944. This fact is relevant because, along with fellow Lovin' Spoonful bandmember, Zally Yanovsky who was born later that same year, John is the youngest person in this story. In the pivotal year 1964 John was 20, ju...
Most pop music aficionados know Bobby Darin. Although he died just two weeks after I was born in 1973, I could easily name a handful of his recordings off the top of my head, the most famous of which was "Mack the Knife." It may not ...
Why study traps? There are several good reasons why studying traps might be considered important. First, of course, to avoid becoming a victim of one. Second is to recognize when the opportunity of gaining a quick...
Another once-an-article-now-a-blog A combination might be defined as a series of moves, forced, or at least the best in the situation, most often involving a sacrifice, that makes use of some inherent weakness and tha...
I had published this article (in the Article Section) in a somewhat different form many years ago. The advent of V3 completely destroyed it. I decided, rather than trying to recreate it as it was, I'd simply post the scan...
Chess in Vintage Print Advertising Although Chess isn't a common theme in advertising non-chess products, the practice goes back at least a century and a half when in 1859* Kaichen & Rothschild of Detroit usurped Morp...
Beer: 1942 Miller Beer ... 1957 Miller Beer ... 1967 Schlitz Beer ... 1971 Rheingold Beer ... The Hard Stuff: 1936&nbs...
Food: 1909 Ely-Gillmore Fruit Co. ... 1909 Ely-Gillmore Fruit Co. ... 1909 Ely-Gillmore Fruit Co. ... 1909 Ely-Gillmore Fruit Co. ... 1909 Ely-Gillmore Fruit Co. ... ...
The Softer Drinks: 1945 Canadia Dry Water ... 1945 Coca Cola ... 1957 Pepsi Cola ... 1964 Tab Cola ... 1968 Coca Cola ...
Apparel and Accessories: ... 1920 Emery Shirts ... 1945 Trifari Jewelry ... 1947 Hamilton watches ... 1949 Maidenform Bra ... 1953 Van Heusen Shirts...... 1963 Botany ...
Business and Miscellaneous:... . 1952 Sanforized Cotton ... 1953 Ladies' Home Journal ... 1956 Consolidated Electrodynamcs Corp. ... 1957 Pan Am ... 1957 Women's Day Magazine ... ...
From the first time I heard Art Garfunkel's angelic voice singing the opening lines Scarborough Fair/Canticle, my take on the old English ballad was a mistaken one. I thought the term "Scarborough Fair" was a poetic expression of "fair Scarbor...
Francis Percival Wenman Percy Wenman (1892-1972), born in England. In 1911 he moved to Scotland where he began his amateur chess career, married Elizabeth Thompson, had a son, Marcus Heathcote and a daughter Alice Elizabeth and started h...
Francis Percival Wenman Percy Wenman (1892-1972), born in England. In 1911 he moved to Scotland where he began his amateur chess career, married Elizabeth Thompson, had a son, Marcus Heathcote and a daughter Alice Elizabeth and started h...
Francis Percival Wenman Percy Wenman (1892-1972) was born in England. In 1911 he moved to Scotland where he married Elizabeth Thompson, had a son, Marcus Heathcote and a daughter Alice Elizabeth and started his amateur chess career. ...
"...it was merely two uprights, with a space between them of about ten feet and a cross piece on top..."N.Y. Herald, May 2, 1868 &nbs...
Here in the good ol' US of A., as in most places I suspect, the Covid-19 virus has created havoc. While mask-wearing, sanitizing and keeping our distance has become as common as it's become annoying, it's mainly an inconvenience most of us can end...
Siúil a Rún is an Irish song, most likely from the late 17th century, in which a lass is heartbroken because the lover is joining the military and going to war and will do anything to assure his safe return. Women and war is a theme ...
