People tend to compare playing chess with playing a musical instrument. In fact, it is a reasonable collation, but when it comes to blindfold chess, you will fail to find a musical equivalent. While, you are unable to play music without an instrument, playing chess without a board is feasible.  Francois Philidor realized this and gained …

There is a common misunderstanding that cheating in chess emerged years after chess engines were widely available for simple users. In fact, it dates back to 1770 when Hungarian author and inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen created a fake chess-playing machine called the Turk.  The automaton was called so because of the world-renowned leverage that Turkish chess …

Talk to a group of chess players for long enough and sooner or later the question of whether chess is a sport or merely a game will come up.   Google tells us that on Chess.com alone there are more than 18,000 mentions of chess as a sport:Further evidence that this is a popular topic of …

You don’t have to dip your toes into the world of chess for long before you start hearing about all the benefits that come with it.  Not only is it an enjoyable game, you learn, but it also has the power to make you more intelligent, increase your concentration levels and even stave off dementia.  But is …

On January 12, 2009, a YouTube user named Russell Furman published a video of a man (whose name was claimed to be Paul Dozsa) being arrested in 1988. As it turns out the community gave a stirring reaction leaving us to read comments, such as: If I had this accent I’ll never shut itOr… Swag is for …

One of the best things you can do to improve your chess is to get away from the computer and start playing over the board.​At the beginning of his famous book Build Up Your Chess, Artur Yusupov (at his peak third in the world to Kasparov and Karpov), writes in bold:​You must absolutely play through …