Magnus Carlsen Struggling to Get 2900 (and Probably Won’t Ever Do It)

Why did Bobby Fischer quit playing for 20 years after becoming World Champion?

Fighting Chess Rules

Chess has so many draws for two reasons: The weak pieces of chess and the stalemate rule. This is the cause of so many decades of consternation of holding tournaments with a rule to attempt to reduce the number of draws. If we could adjust the rules of our game to address these two problems…

Can Magnus Carlsen Achieve 2900? I Am Skeptical that Someone Else Gets There First!

Magnus Carlsen Lost Rating After Winning an Event (and so did Bobby Fischer)

Magnus Carlsen went from 2855 before the tournament (Norway 2021) to 2854.8, which is a loss of 0.2 rating points. Note that he is well above #2 in the world Fabiano Caruana at 2800, but still. He…

Chess Is a Phoenix

by Tony Berard

This is just a concept based document, not a technical treatise!! Seeing the word chess can really scare some people thinking this might be a difficult to understand set of diagrams with loads of arcane sequences of moves. Yes, chess is discussed, but…

A Hundred Million Reasons to Have Evidence to Back Claims

The Current Chess Scandal and Religion Share…

No-Castle Chess is Flawed

No-castle chess is flawed. Castling was invented to overcome the flaws present in the game without it. This happened quite a few centuries ago, so we have very little, if any, game information on what led to the castling rule. Here are a couple of links to some articles on No-Castle…

Book Excerpt: The Flaws of Chess

This article is one of the chapters in my book The Flaws, Death, and Successor to Chess: Tines and…

Claims without Evidence Are Empty for Both the Mystical and the Physical Realms as the Chess World Shows