CoffeeHouse Chess

What makes a game great or important? There are a number of considerations to take into account, but the occasion, the players, the fight an...

Being a chess coach in Melbourne usually means travelling from school to school giving extra curriculum chess classes. There are some privat...

Am I a workaholic? It's a question I often ask myself and it relates to the fact that my job and hobby are related. I teach chess (and s...

Last week we had 4 players tied on equal first, but there is now an outright leader, John Nemeth. John beat me in a tough game, while the o...

I have enlisted the help of a fount of wisdom to work out whether it is better to play chess online or Face to Face My black and white f...

Drouin is in the Latrobe Valley to the east of Melbourne. It is ideally placed for mountain scenery, rivers, greenery, seascapes. All are ju...

I get a lot of people asking me about which chess books they should buy. Well, there are a lot of factors involved in choosing a good book f...