The Whole Board Update

This position has occurred in at least 21 games, including Ree,H -- Piket,J, Breda 2001, which appears in Encyclopedia of Chess Miniatures ...

Perseverance Update

Mental discipline and hard work improves luck. James Stripes My success finally winning a club championship at the Spokane Chess Club inc...

Black to Move Update

I failed this problem on Chess.com tactics trainer, but found the first two moves. Black to move

Cultivating Youth Skills Update

My chess students range from absolute beginners who have just learned how the pieces move and are beginning to discover forks and pins to so...

Attitude Update

Win with grace. Lose with dignity. Susan Polgar During morning coffee today, I reviewed three games on Chessgames.com , then played a si...

Slok on QE, and a great paper Most Complete From Sopintar

DB's Torsten Sl�k writes in his regular email analysis: Yesterday I participated in the annual US Monetary Policy Forum here in Manhat...

Bishop versus Knight Update

The 25th annual Dave Collyer Memorial chess tournament is this weekend. I have played in more than half of them, perhaps fifteen. My best ye...

A great EFG Most Complete From Sopintar

On Friday, I went to the NBER EFG (Economic Fluctuations and Growth) meeting at the SF Fed. Program and papers here .  The papers were great...

Fama Portfolio Most Complete From Sopintar

The Fama Portfolio , is a new book from the University of Chicago Press. This is a collection of Gene Fama's papers, edited by Toby Mo...

Ten Seconds Update

What should White play? It is a blitz game; seconds matter. White to move