Coffee, Chess, Beauty and other Nonsense!
Beauty and Brains
How are you today? I trust your getting together with family and loved ones over the holidays was wonderful. Pretty Orwellian was … Read the rest
Category: Canadiana
Bill Evans RIP
23.8.1958 – 23.8.2019
Toronto’s Bill Evans passed away peacefully in Toronto’s St.Michael’s Hospital on Friday after a sudden illness. I last communicated with Bill several … Read the rest
The Chess World in 1969
50 Years Ago
Memories. In the summer of 1969, though I was not yet a tournament player — I had discovered the chess world only … 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
Canadian Zonal starts with a BANG!
Bareev loses in round 1
The BIG surprise of the first round was #1 seed, GM Bareev, losing to the talented youngster Joshua Doknjas (rated … Read the rest
For my Canadian readers…
Vintage shot of Canadian Team at 1964 Tel Aviv Olympiad
I found this over at O.Urcan’s chess-informative twitter, and extracted the footage of the … Read the rest
Today’s winning ‘Blast from the Past!’
Todays winning ‘Blast from the Past!’
It was Saturday May 17, 1975. First round of the very strong Vancouver Open saw legendary grandmaster Paul Keres… Read the rest
Wednesday Coffee
Good morning, Wednesday! The last Wednesday of October (why does this sound like a broken record?! ) and Donald Trump has still not dropped … Read the rest
Sunday Coffee
Sunday Coffee
Oktyabrina by Ivan Proskurin
Good morning, Sunday Coffee! The middle of the month of October (already!) and still the world has not stepped … Read the rest
Quotation of the day
Today’s Winning FIDE Quotation
” I know that I’m not the brightest person, but I feel that I’m not stupid enough to testify against FIDE … Read the rest
FIDE Ethics Committee impotent to act against Azmai’
Ethics Committee claims not aware of the facts!
In a decision that most spectators would conclude anti-climatic and bizarre at the very least, the FIDE … Read the rest
CFC publishes open letter to FIDE
A more Diplomatic approach
Having failed to impress acting FIDE president Makropoulos with CFC representative Hal Bond’s hardball letter of last week (which Makropoulos shrugged … Read the rest
FIDE absolves Tbilisi organizer
FIDE wants more Azmaiparashvili’s !
Darth Vader still haunts us! But could we have expected otherwise? FIDE just keeps on protecting it’s own. Responding to … Read the rest
Psychopathy in Tbilisi
The Bermudas Affair
How to explain irrational behaviour? The current FIDE Dress Code specifically (Reg.5) prohibits the clothing that World Cup organizer Azmaiparashvili was wearing … Read the rest
Anton Kovalyov advances to 3rd round
Texas University student advances to 3rd round
Former world champion Vishy Anand has exited the World Cup in Tbilisi in round 2 after his stunning … Read the rest
