50 Years of Chess, Year 7 (Part 1)

by | Oct 3, 2020 | games, openings, people

When you put a call out to the universe, sometimes the universe answers! A couple weeks ago I mentioned that I did not have the scores of any of my games from 1976. But then I got an e-mail from an old friend I hadn’t heard from for many years: Macon Shibut, who...

Ageless Wonders

by | Oct 2, 2020 | 2012 world championship, people, ruminations

Chessbase had an interesting column yesterday about the ten highest-rated players of all time, in which they tracked down the exact games where they hit their rating peaks. It’s an interesting list, and I’ll give you the condensed version here (without the...