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
Abe Yanofsky / History / Smile!
by kevinspraggettonchess · Published February 18, 2021 · Last modified February 19, 2021
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
Abe Yanofsky / Canadian Chess / History / Jules Therien & Family / Smile!
by kevinspraggettonchess · Published October 14, 2019
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 / Canadiana / History
by kevinspraggettonchess · Published July 14, 2019 · Last modified August 20, 2019
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
A pic is worth a 1000 words / Canada chess news / Canadiana / History / Smile!
by kevinspraggettonchess · Published February 19, 2018 · Last modified January 9, 2019
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
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