Month: January 2014

1852: South Jersey Times, Vineland, NJ 1859: Camden Journal, Camden, NJ 1873-1877: Bayonne Herald, Bayonne, NJ; Miron J. Hazeltine 1876-1899: Sunday Call, Newark, NJ: Julius Lenow 1878; D.E. Harvey 1878-99; Gustav Koehler...

IT CAME AS QUITE A SURPRISE! Although I am not really comfortable with “tooting my own horn,” two veteran chess organizers / directors have asked me to prepare a short chess autobiography. Specifically, I will try to explain how...

Denis J. Barry June 2, 1929 ~ December 20, 2003 Denis Barry, former President of the USCF (1994-1996), passed away on December 20, 2003, after a short illness. Funeral services were held December 24th in Arizona. During his...

Mel Rappaport died Saturday, November 29, 2003 at St. Clares’ Hospital in Denville. He was 68. Born in and raised in the Bronx, he had lived in Rockaway before moving to the Lake Hiawatha section of Parsippany in 1992. Mel...

The following was a Editorial in Atlantic Chess News, written by Peter J. Tamburro, Jr. David Burris, R.I.P. Death has taken yet another friend of chess and chess players. David Burris, award winning editor, writer and player...