Morris Giles tactics quiz at The Chess Drum

FM Morris Giles - FM Eugene Martinovsky

White to Move

We're honoring the memory of the late Morris Giles.

Daaim Shabazz of The Chess Drum assembled a great tactics quiz based on Giles's victories against great Chicago players of the 1980s.  Check it out!

"Chicago's Ron Washington, 1951-2012"

Daaim Shabazz remembers Ron (click to read) .

Ron in 2007; swiped from The Knights of Castle Kimbark

Daaim Shabazz remembers Tom Fineberg

Barack Obama was not the first
Alinskyite radical community organizer in Hyde Park:
in 2003, Tom Fineberg led a chess sit-in in Harper Court

Read Daaim's wonderful tribute on The Chess Drum.

Chess Drum on Chicago Open

International Masters Farai Mandizha of Zimbabwe and Oladapo Adu of Nigeria

Photo: Daaim Shabazz

The Chess Drum visits a suddenly-old friend from Jules Stein's Chicago Chess Center and takes some cool photos.