Sarah's Chess Journal

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         The History and The Culture of Chess

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2004  
January
Welcome, I guess
Ontogeny recaps phylogeny
Garry Kasparov
Turkish Delights
Chess sites
Live Chess
Blind Chess
Coffeehouse Chess
February
Only a Pawn in their Game
With every move you make...
You play like an old lady!
Old soldier's never die
Girl Chess
Bipolarity and other things
Got a Match?
Telegraph Chess
Is there no justice???
a revolutionary idea!
Chess goes to War
A slight correction:
Jewish Rye
A Brief Tribute to Bill Wall
The Indominatable Ellen Gilbert
The Iron Curtain
An American Tragedy
Born Loser
US Woman's Chess Champions
Lisa Lane
March
Sobibor
Chess Oscar
ELO
Turing Test
Che Guevara, revisited
Quick Gossip
The Mysterious Diane Savereide
Family Act
April
The Pleiades
Platov Brothers
More Living Chess
MaryleBone Volunteers
Paul Morphy Annotates Game 27
Paul Morphy Annotates Game 7
Lisa Lane revisited
My Daughter's First Game
Some Lisa Lane Games

links


-The Life and Chess of Paul Morphy
On Nimzowitsch
Frank Marshall Archive
Cambridge Springs
Chess Matches 1835-1863
Vistula Chess Monthly (the English language section)
New Stories about Old Chess Players by Jeremy Spinrad
Canadian Chess links


-Mark Week's History on the Web
-Chess Tourn. & Match History
-Super Tournaments of the Past
-La grande storia degli scacchi
-Bobby Fischer
-Bobby Fischer II
-Bill Wall's Chess Pages
 

My Chess Biographies

Carlos Torre Repetto
Lisa Lane
Prince André Dadian
Joseph Blackburne part 1
Joseph Blackburne part 2
William Lewis
George Walker
Augustus Mongredien
Adolf Anderssen
Saint Amant
Daniel Harrwitz
Samuel Boden
Johann  Löwenthal
Howard Staunton
The Duke of Brunswick
Charles Henry Stanley
Deschapelles
Jacob Henry Sarratt
Alexander McDonnell
Joszef Szen
Vincent Grimm
John Cochrane
John Cochrane II
George Atwood

Lionel Kieseritzky


My Historical Explorations

Chess in the Renaissance
Renaissance:

    Seeds to the Renaissance
    The Catalysts
    The Black Death
    Da Vinci
    Chess Literature
    Chess Players

    Sofonisba Anguissola 
    Schaccia, Ludus by Vida
    Caissa 
by William Jones
    Aristotle's Children

-Chess Automatons
-The Origins of Chess
-Girl Chess I
-The Forgotten Philidor
-Monte Carlo 1902
-Chess and the Surrealists
-USA-USSR Radio Match 1945
-Organized Women's Chess in  the USA - 1st 17 years

-Forgotten Women Champions
-Chess in 19th Century Phila.
-Franklin's Morales of Chess
-Pandolfini's Comandments
-Fischer's 10 Greatest
-Fischer's Bust of the KG
-Schachdorf Ströbeck

 




 


May
Chess Queen vs. Drama Queen
Lisa Lane: final entry
Some Unusual Links
Morphy's Games of Chess

June
Morphy and Architecture
Exploits of Paul Morphy
Schachdorf Ströbeck
Behind the Iron Curtain II
Chess Olympiads
Botvinnik vs Petrosian 1998
The Contender
Land of 1000 dances
July
Chess by Country
The Schuhplatter Dance

My Great Successors
Where I am
Who am I?
August
London Coffee Houses
Parisian Cafes
U.S. Men
September
The 60 Second Man
Schachdorf U. S. A.
Walk of Fame
Morphy Clubs

October
Art and Chess
Morphy plays Cheney
Napier on Mason
Napier on Bird
Napier: Chess Caviar
E. Morphy/Quincy Chess
Jorge Luis Borges
November
Native Guards
The Franklin Chess Club
Press Secretary
Civil War
The Manhattan Chess Club
Voltaire

December
Edith Helen Winter-Wood Baird
Knightly Virtues
Two Pauls
The Forgotten Philidor

2005
January
More Morphy Houses
Lasker's Chess Magazine
New Orleans' Other Prodigy
Café de la Régence
1813 - Chess Variants
New Orleans' Other Prodigy II
FIDE Training Committee
 
February
Retro-Ratings
Eugene de Beauharnais
A Date with Paul Morphy

Chess Rules through the Ages
Mandarins of the Yellow Button
Theophilus A. Thompson
The Sacrificial Morphy
March
Who am I? - (revisited)
C.H.E.S.S. in the U.S.A.

Of Chess and Violence
Atlantic Monthly, June 1860
April
Sherlock Holmes
Retro-Ratings II
Vauvenargue
Willard
May
Women's Links
Ernest Morphy vs. Dr. Ford
Morphy's Games of Chess
Sherlock Holmes Solution
Vauvenargue, Part II
Morphy's Times: Entertainment
Ernest Morphy?

My 15 seconds of fame
June
de Basterot and a Triumvirate
A balanced budget
What's so great about Morphy?

Mechanical Chess Recorder
Diego Morphy
P. W. S. Reviews R. M.-V.
Breslau
Boston Chess Club
Chess Men
Morphy in the National Era
July
James M'Cune Smith
1870 Catholic World: Chess
Blackwood's Edinburgh Mag.:  London-Edinburgh Chess Match
Chess Calculus
The Chess-Board - by Owen Meredith
...never more to play at chess
August
Morphy - 1875
The Scotsman
Morphy - 1875 - part 2
Chess Problems Tournay of the 1st Am. Chess Congress
Paulsen's opinion of Morphy
Morphy - 1875 - part 3
Morphy Homestead Sold
Ben Franklin and Chess
The Ill.London News  12-30-65
Adolph Anderssen's grave
Dog Chess in Stereo
Turing 2
David Lawson
September
William James Appleton Fuller
Café de la Régence II
October
Léona Queyrouze
Another View of Morphy
Twice Remembered
November
Chess Bitch
December
Morphy tribute - Knight's Tour
Steinitz the Champion
2006
January
The Late Grand Chess Match
Löwenthal's Visit to America
Andrei Davidovich Dadiani
Benjamin Lynde Oliver
Eugene Beauharnais Cook
Book of 1st Am. Chess Congress
February
Hyacinth R.Agnel
USCF Committee Reports
Don Diego Morphy
Philip Stamma
Ernest Morphy - Quincy
March
Boston Gazette 8/18/1860
William Schlumberger
Something about Sam
Turkish Embellishments
Chess: the Ice Age
Chess Money
The Game of Kings
Automaton Directors
April
Patricia Anne Sunnucks
The Problem of Paul Morphy
A Chess Curiosity
Adah Isaacs Menken - again
Books on Morphy
C.A. Bucks: Morphy's Later Life
Dizikes Does Morphy
A Tribute to Ernest Jones
Reuben Fine's Paul Morphy
May
Lasa does Staunton
Paul Morphy - Thomas Avery
Le Funambule
Symbolism: de ludo scachorum
Jacobus de Cessolis
Chess in the Press
June
A Morphy Opponent?
Morphy Opponent - Part II
yet another Morphy Opponent?
Chess Bits & Pieces
Chess at Col McMahon's Camp
July
Frederick Edge:
   1st Amer. Chess Congress
   Morphy Prepares for Europe
Morphy's Chess Set
Civil War II
Odds and Ends
Bobby Fischer Live
Thelcide's Érard
Chess in the Renaissance
Morphy's Bust
Godkin mentions Morphy
CHESSWORLD 1964
Blind Chess 2
August
All ABOUT Chess History
A Trio of Morphy Clippings
The Invention of Petroff
der Schwarze Tod
John Quincy Adams
Life on the Mississippi
Rudolph and Richard Reti



September
Hiram Kennicott
D.W.Fiske
The Immortal Game - a review
New Morphy Opponent?

October

Marabou
November
Calotype
Chess, Checkers and Whist Club
Calotype and Cruikshank
The Cochranes
Columbus and Chess
December
Africa, not Arabia!
2007
January
Ernest Jones and Freud
Henry Wilson fetes Morphy
Miron James Hazeltine
Chess in Ukraine
The Blackmar-Popiel Gambit?

 
February
Ernest Morphy
Diane Savereide - revisited
Savereide and Cardoso
March
Random Clippings
Edge Full Circle
Bird Talk
Monte Carlo 1902
Edgier Still...
Edge Sampler
Mysterious Female
The Chess Game of Seville
The Lord Balaram
April
A Letter from Lewis
Pawn and Three
Indian Player?
The Late Howard Staunton
John Singer Sargent
The Players
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Paul Morphy Cigars
The Famous Warsaw Café
Demon Chess

The Pawn Concerto
Les echecs
Dmitri Shostakovich
Danican
May
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Old Masters
*The Romance of Chess*
  -The Art of Odds-giving
Morphy goes crazy

The Yiddish Policemen's Union
of Morphy and Music
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Maurian Library
The Game of the Future
Wittgenstein again
Akiba Rubinstein by Bobrov
When Morphy Was a Boy
Isaac Franklin Russell
The Conqueror
A Game by Galbreath
Erbo Stenzel-Artist, ChessPlayer
Psychoanalysis & Chess
John Cage
June
Pillsbury's Brain
Young Morphy


July
 
Four from Wilhlmthe2nd
      Chigorin and Kiev 1903
      Staunton by H.J.R. Murray
      H.J.R. Murray - BMC 1907
      Encounters with Alekhine
Chess and the Surrealists






August
Chumley's
September
 
The First 17 years of Organized Women's Chess in America

Hastings, 1895

Weinstein

October

Reuben Fine on Morphy, 1943

November

December

The Soviet Coming-out Party

Fred Reinfeld on Morphy, 1946

W.J.A.Fuller on Morphy

2008
January

Morphy the Lawyer
The Manhattan Chess Club
           the first 21 years
Chess in 19th Century Phila.


 

February

Lionel Kieseritzky

March

Chess Discovery
The Evolution of Chess

Codification of Chess - 1862
April

Forgotten Women Champions

Memories of Chigorin
Obit of Jules Arnous de Rivičre
May
 
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2009
January
 
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Conrad Bayer
Hollywood Chess
The Fleahouse Blues


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