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The post 2 slots below ( Some Brotherly Love ) provoked some correspondence. The question was "Why did black resign?" and ignoring...

The O2C Doeberl Cup and the Sydney International Open weren't 2 tournaments back to back, they were one 18 round tournament held over 10...

It is one of the unavoidable facts of (chess) life that sometimes you get paired against people you don't want to be paired against. I...

Chess tournaments make me cranky. Although it may be that I'm cranky all the time, as GM Ian Rogers remarked "Apart from the extra ...

With the O2C Doeberl Cup and the Sydney International Open running back to back, the topic of title norms comes up. And more importantly, wh...

At the Doeberl Cup the arbiters were replete in yellow tops, at the SIO they wear red. This lead Carl Haessler to remark upon entering the ...

The 2008 O2C Doeberl Cup finished with an outright win for American GM Varuzhan Akobian, with 7.5/9. Akobian finished with 6 wins and 3 draw...