Abe Yanofsky – spraggettonchess

April 21, 2021

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

February 18, 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

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

July 14, 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

February 19, 2018

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