It’s never a bad time to return to the classics.
When I’m looking for chess entertainment, I constantly read and re-read Lasker’s Manual of Chess (the more advanced parts) and Zurich International Tournament, 1953, by the late, great David Bronstein. The quotes contained within these books and the very well-formed prose make them worth picking up […]
Somtime today, the chess_underground experienced it’s 5,000th unique visitor!
Well, that’s not quite accurate. I signed up the site with a tracking service through www.branica.com sometime last May (2006). The chess_underground has been around since 2004, however, so I missed out on two years of people. Oh well. I am happy. 5,000 in one year […]
A letter from Dmitriy Gurevich to the New York Times regarding a negative collumn about Michael Khodarkovsky was declined and left unpublished, except on the blog of chessdad. I had the honor to meet Khodarkovsky in Chicago at a luncheon with Kasparov, and I must say my impressions were in line with Dmitriy’s description in […]