Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was born on April 23, 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He grew up (1930-1938) in Libertyville and Evanston, Illinois, a town northwest of Chicago. He learned chess as a teenager and tried to teach his friend, W... Read more »
Here, two young amateurs were playing in a tournament creating the shortest game ever recorded! The players, who's identities have been lost, were familiar with chess rules and had Elo ratings of 1600 and 1700. PLEASE READ THE MOVE L... Read more »
(This story was written for the U3A Nepean web site. U3A is the “University of the Third Age”. If you don't know what that is, you can learn about it here: http://www.u3anepean.org ) We've all heard the old saw that t... Read more »
Thirty years ago a picture hung in the Sydney Chess Centre. It showed two chess players—one looking bored, the other indecisive. He had picked up a pawn to make his first move but had taken so long that a spider web extended from... Read more »
I'm been wondering if this type of chess does exist. I don't know. I don't even know how would you play a three level chess. It would be to difficult. At first, how would you move the pieces up & down? You would have to change thei... Read more »
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