Been spending some time in some older books, and revisited one I think is vastly underrated: The Soviet Chess Conveyor, by Mikhail Shereshevsky. The translation is terrible, but there’s a lot of good material there just waiting to be dug up.
Recommendation: This book is not for beginners. It has philosophical advice that is excellent for [...]

Knowledge of How Things Used To Be doesn’t prevent me from acknowledging changes in How Things Are. Some recent postings on Craig’s List reveal that not only are there two local organizations teaching chess to scholastics in the area, along with a couple of Illinois organizations expanding northward, but there’s an Arizona organization moving in [...]