Greetings! Welcome back to the Hornet Editorial. Welcome to the third installment of Reminisces of Top Bloggers! When I finished Part II four months ago, I didn't think I would be writing another one so soon. To my great joy, Chess.com...
Greetings! Welcome back to the Hornet Editorial. Since the dawn of the modern chess era, players have increasingly tried to eliminate uncertainty from the game. We study openings to avoid surprises, analyze our losses to remove weaknesses, and l...
Greetings, welcome back to the Hornet Editorial! If I were to ask you to name some "American chess heroes" off the top of your head, you'd probably say names like Bobby Fischer, Samuel Reshevsky, or maybe even Daniel Naroditsky. T...
Greetings, welcome back to the Hornet Editorial! Have you ever read a book or watched a movie and wondered, "What would it be like to be the villain?". I'm sure most of us have whether we'd like to admit it or not. Villains are usually more i...
Greetings, welcome back to the Hornet Editorial! Today's blog has been quite literally one year in the making. In May 2023, back in my Top Blogger days, I released a blog titled (you guessed it) "The Reminisces of Top Bloggers". It originated from...
Greetings, welcome back to the Hornet Editorial! Today's post is going to be a little different from my usual historical/current events posts. My blog today is a personal story that I've been encouraged to write (you know who you are) and that has...
Greetings, welcome back to the Hornet Editorial! 2025 is quickly coming to a close, and once again it's just as crazy how fast the time flew by this year. At year's end, it's a tradition to look back and reflect on the moments that defined us in t...
For a brief moment this week, a story from the chess world breached the national spotlight. Unfortunately, it was not a positive story, but a tragic one. On Sunday, October 19th, Daniel "Danya" Naroditsky died at the age of 29. While authorit...
Greetings, and welcome back to the Hornet Editorial! It has been over a year since my last post (which was an April Fool’s day post so that doesn’t really count) I guess this continues to fool people since it has 5,500+ views and...
Greetings, welcome back to the Hornet Editorial! World War I is remembered for its unbelievable scale, devastating consequences, and the impact it had on nations all around the world. Yet, amid the chaos something else was happening – a battle on...
Greetings, welcome back to the Hornet Editorial! I watched Christopher Nolan's newly released biopic, Oppenheimer (as you may have done), and whilst pondering about the film, I thought for a second: "I wonder if he played chess?" So, after I Duc...
Greetings welcome back to the Hornet Editorial! Today, we explore the life of World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer, whose brilliance and competitive passion drew the attention of the world. At a young age, he gained notoriety, and then of course h...
Greetings, welcome back to the Hornet Editorial. Have you ever wanted to be a Top Blogger? What does the job entail? Well, I talked with several avid Top Bloggers here on Chess.com and they told me their many good and bad experiences as a blogge...
Greetings, welcome back to the Hornet Editorial! As many of you know, I am a Tom Cruise fanatic. You also may have observed that my name is "Artur Cruise". SPOILER ALERT: It's not my real name, sorry . Like Tom Cruise, I like to do everyt...
Greetings, welcome back to the Hornet Editorial! As the 2023 World Chess Championship speedily approaches us, I now preview the upcoming tournament, and show you what to expect. We are a week off from the start of the first game of t...
Greetings welcome back to the Hornet Editorial. I had a realization a few days ago. I have finally come to my senses. I now know that the game we call chess sucks. What a terrible game it is. Why do I think chess sucks?? Let me give you a few ...
Welcome back to the Hornet Editorial! Mikhail Botvinnik was born on August 17th, 1911, in what was Kuokalla, Grand Duchy of Finland and what is now a district of Saint Petersburg, Russia. He was the 6th World Chess Champion. His influenc...
Thank you to Chess.com for making me Top Blogger! I am very glad of the opportunity to write on another level. Also thank you to everyone else who helped me along the way . Welcome back to the Hornet Editorial (yes I changed the name)! It has be...
Welcome! Psychology plays a big part in chess. Winning a chess game doesn't only require you to be strong in terms of the game, but also psychologically strong. Everything we do has an effect on us mentally. Whether we are happy or sad, our brain...
Introduction Hello again! Well, if you didn't know, the rook is my favorite chess piece. And I especially love playing endgames with them. Rook endgames are the most common endgames in chess, and more often than not, they end in a draw. One must...
Introduction Well, there has been a growing motivation for me to make a blog on bullet chess. I have always despised bullet, but rapid players are going extinct pretty fast, so I thought I would play some bullet games to find out why it is so a...
So, we have come to the end of this year. 2023 is right on the horizon! I thought that today I could recap some of what I thought were some interesting moments in the chess world, but first, a brief message for all of you! Christmas Message Me...
To many, chess is a mysterious game, Medieval Age looking pieces with all different movements capturing and checking all over the board all at once. Mystery often leads us to fill in the missing pieces and make our own story. Today we will explo...
Bobby Fischer filed a patent in 1988 for a new type of digital chess clock which allowed time to be added after a player makes a move. Ever since, incremental time controls have remained the constant subject of controversy in the chess community....
En Passant is one of the most debated chess moves, it has been disputed for years now. En Passant translates to "in passing" from French. Although En Passant is rarely played in chess games, when it does happen it makes somebody in the world a f...
