50 Years of Chess: Transition

In the spring of 1983 I earned my doctorate from Princeton University, and after a somewhat nail-biting job search I landed a one-year position in the math department at Duke University. After a year it turned into a tenure-track position, and I ended up staying at...

Chess memories (1980s edition)

Today I will continue the ambling through my chess past that I began with this entry about the Richmond (VA) chess club in the 1970s and that entry about the U.S. Junior Open in 1974. But first, let me mention, for anyone who likes this kind of stuff, you should also...