When the Broadway moguls decided to revive the musical Chess, I was practically giddy with anticipation. I dropped enough hints throughout the holiday season that I fully expected to find show tickets stuffed in my Christmas st...
Just a couple of weeks ago, it was the 30th anniversary of the famous Michael Jordan two-word fax that was sent out to all the major media outlets. He succinctly stated "I'm back", marking his return to basketball from his brie...
Everyone likes to look at the new calendar year as a clean slate. There's an uptick in gym memberships as fitness becomes a priority, a drop-off in the sales of tobacco and alcohol with health and wellness in mind and then ther...
Happy Ocho Day! Anyone who has seen the 2004 classic comedy Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story would be privy to the fictional cable channel ESPN 8: The Ocho. It hilariously takes the common sci-fi trope of cloning and...
In one of the most recent 'State of chess.com' addresses, Chief Chess Officer Danny Rensch was speaking about the upcoming slate of chess tournaments and the dense schedule it embodies. In a rather matter of fact manner he resp...
From Madrid to Astana: And All The Extenuating Circumstances That Lead To The 2023 FIDE World Chess Championship Part One - Madrid KYIV On the morning of February 23rd, 2022, Vladimir Putin announced t...
As Pushkin's doomed duelist said "Let's start, if you are willing." These lines are declared by an over swaggering Aleksandr Ivanovich Luzhin, who marches into the grand hall late (because all the best players make their oppone...
The old adage goes, "If you ain't cheatin', you ain't trying." It seems as though the year of 2022 was the year of cheating accusations, as multiple reports of grifting and swindling continued to roll in one after the other. Po...
That very first weekend of the NCAA basketball tournament is nothing but absolute pandemonium. Just as one game kicks off in Pittsburgh, another is starting the second half in San Francisco, all while an upset is coming down to the wire in San Ant...
Opening Day. A day filled with such promise and anticipation. After all, you and your favorite team haven't lost a game yet, every team is tied for first and every player has a chance to be the MVP. Optimism abounds on opening day. Although, ...
It was once the norm where the Winter and Summer Olympics both took place in the same calendar year, as opposed to bi-annually which is the tradition we have recently become accustomed to. But thanks to the no longer not so novel Coronavirus delay...
Ask anybody, even the most novice of hockey fans, who did the 1980 US Men's Hockey Team beat to win the gold medal? And everybody will obviously answer the Russians. They beat the Soviet Union when a group of young college kids upset the greate...
It's amazing at how quick things can change in just one year. Obviously the state of the world has proven this theory correct the past couple of years, (unfortunately for all the wrong reasons), but still. Like many, in the fall/winter of 2020 I g...
The month of November saw the entire chess world redirect its attention towards the biggest event on the chess calendar. A clash that everybody has been waiting for and where chess history will inevitably be made. The world's brightest and most cr...
Previously on... The 64 When we last left our heroes, they were seen tending their wounds, waist high in the wavy channels usually referred to as a moment of crisis. The chilling month of October kicked off on theme, with the US Chess...
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. Two weeks ago when the US Chess Club took on team Kazakstan in what was believed to be the first leg of two in a Rapid & Blitz contest, the second half of the doubler-header came to an abrupt end befo...
Ed Catmull, one of the original founders of the animation studio Pixar (along with Steve Jobs and that other recognizable Hawaiian shirt wearing creep) dubbed a term in his book Creativity Inc. called "radical candor". Although I'm pretty sure ...
On the cusp of week 1 of the 102nd NFL season, week 2 of season 8 in the Live Chess Wold League kicked off this past Sunday. Much like them Cowboys who travel east to "Champa Bay" to take on Tom Brady and the Bucs - , the US Chess Club vs Tea...
...Chess World League. If the gif continued you would find that Bruce Buffer, the venerated Octagon announcer would have completed his sentence by forcibly exclaiming... "We are Live... Chess World League" Celebrating the return of ...
