Good luck to Maximillian Zinski

Max (a 7th grader at St. Michael's in Wheaton) is tied for the lead in the K-8 section of the National Junior High School Championship, going on this weekend in Minneapolis.

Playing chess with Kubrick

From the New York Review of Books.

2001 is not the only Kubrick movie featuring chess: there's a great New York chess club scene in The Killing.

Jon Burgess's blog

Here it is, just in time to satisfy your needs while I'm on temporary hiatus (something about April 15).

Also, Jon wraps up his Chicago-centric take on the Philadelphia Open results here!

"In Chicago, a Tournament that Turns Out Grandmasters"

From today's New York Times chess column.  (The pedantic may substitute "Skokie" for "Chicago.")