The Jewish Gambit
The Legacy of Jews and Chess in Winnipeg
I was fortunate to have yesterday found this wonderful YouTube video on the history of the Winnipeg … Read the rest
Category: Abe Yanofsky
A pic is worth a 1,000 words…
Najdorf vs Yanofsky, 1939
The above photo was taken on Friday the 25th of August 1939, right as play was beginning in the 2nd round … Read the rest
Bits & Pieces; old photos and detective work
Setting the record straight
I was recently thumbing thru Munninghoff’s excellent biography (2005) of Max Euwe and came across the above photo on page 257. … Read the rest
A blast from the past!
Vintage Canada
I recently got hold of some old ChessReview magazines and spent hours flipping thru them…which is what I love to do when I … Read the rest
Abe Yanofsky: A Canadian Legend
The Commonwealth’s 1st Grandmaster
(This article was originally published here on this blog on September 4th, 2010. Readers have asked me to update it and
