July 17 -- it was a Friday and I had just been having an early dinner in the Chinatown area with family and friends visiting from Costa ...

Chess and Vacations Greetings from Stinson Beach CA where my wife Pat and I are vacationing with our two boys. For a dozen years (mid 80...

Greg Kaden defeated Ben Goldberg in a tense game to move into sole possession of 1st place with 3.0. . Simon Warfield and Farzad Abdi ar...

Last evening we played round two of the Reubens Landey . Ben Goldberg, Greg Kaden, and Daniel Leach emerged with 2 points each. Farzad Ab...

Thumbing through some of Kasparov's My Great Predecessors got me idly thinking about, even at my vastly inferior level of play, which o...

In the May rating supplement Andrew Tichenor , who often plays at the club, achieved the 2200 rating which makes him a National Master. Cong...

NM Chris Williams won his quad with 2 points. He defeated NM Carey Theil and Joshua Lee , losing to NM Lawyer Times . Max Lu and Seth Lie...

Mass chess synergies in recording events and history. Recently in the Blog we copied the MACA release of the Somerville Open tournament. ...

The Reubens Landey has a field of 20 expert and A players. In the first round. All the top ten ranked players defeated the ten bottom -- no...

As you can tell from the comments, this is a very special tournament - it is highly competitive for expert and A players under very good pla...

Paul MacIntyre writes: Ken Ho mentioned “ Storm over the Chessboard ” at a recent chess event in Quebec, and I think what that means is t...

"When you come to the chessboard after a long break, the pieces tend to fall back to their original squares in your mind." So said...

At the 1986 U.S. Open, I walked by as Larry Christiansen and his opponent (Kamran Shirazi, I think) were in a postmortem of their just-drawn...

What drives a person to get in the position Michael Jackson got into? Some social psychologists claim that we all have " UAC's...

I never played in the masochistic all-night Monadnock Marathon chess tournaments once held in New Hampshire, but it seems the madness contin...

On Saturday, June 27, Lawyer Times (3.5) won in the Open Section (n = 14) of the BCF Swiss #23 , including a victory over Dave Vigorito. Ca...

IM David Vigorito, Boylston Chess Club President, recently married Heather Kroll and honeymooned in Italy. For a take on chess and marriage...

Hello everyone, As I posted this week, this weekend I played in my first tournament in six months. I played in the Open section of the Swiss...

Hello everyone, Although I have been managing the blog from a distance, I stopped playing tournaments back in January to focus on my science...

Congratulations International Master Marc Esserman on your IM title! Photo: Tony Cortizas On June 19th, in the second round BCF board memb...