Scorched earth policy can be defined as “destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while withdrawing from an area.” It is a gambit [...]

Napoleon Bonaparte is one of modern history’s great enigmas. When reading about him, Bonaparte the chess player is also touched on briefly [...]

Throughout the one hundred plus years of aviation history, accidents and fatalities have played an inevitable role. In the early years [...]

Nothing drives me crazier than the cliche reasons people use to explain why chess cannot appeal to the masses. Why is it that Joe Sixpack plays [...]

Sayde is now 27 months old. Over the last couple of weeks we have been learning about ranks, files, and diagonals. I soon came to realize [...]

A sharp report erupts as two pieces of hardened plastic clash together. A dull thud follows and one body disappears into another [...]

Teaching another human being to fly is a great privilege and a serious responsibility. When a student learns how to fly, he  or she sits [...]

Chess is inextricably linked with Mathematics. Ibn Khallikān, an Arabic scholar was one of the first  to use the chess board in a math problem [...]

Persistence in the face of failure can be a hard fought battle against one’s inner state of being. A flush of adrenaline and a rise in blood pressure make it [...]

Learning to identify the different chess pieces, the board they stand on, and their individual roles, are the first steps to mastering the great game.

The great Stanley Kubrick is best known for the movies he directed, such as: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, Clockwork Orange [...]

One of the best known scientists of the 20th century, the physicist Richard Feinman, won a Nobel Prize for his theory on quantum electrodynamics.

A short exposé examining why so many chess websites have rudimentary “front-end” designs. Published on EzineArticles to promote My Chess Everyday.

On August 23rd, 2007 my whole world was turned upside down as my wife gave birth to our daughter Sayde. This fragile helpless being depended on us for her every need.