Dec-15-05 Lawrence Day 
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Frank Dixon: Yes, Gypsy, you could take that as a Freudian slip. Of course the stories by IM Day are great. The games would likely be great as well. What I should have said, to be more specific, and not to be seen as even marginally insulting, was that I probably won't have space in my ...
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| | Apr-14-05 Raymond Keene
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Frank Dixon: I wish to praise the great value and influence of the book "Flank Openings", by GM Raymond Keene. This must be one of the most influential and valuable chess books to be published within the last 40 years, and it has gone through several editions. I came upon it after I had ...
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| | Apr-04-05 M Poulin vs L Day, 1980
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Frank Dixon: Hi Lawrence, thanks for your replies. Perhaps you could contact GMs Robert Byrne and Dimitry Gurevich for those Nick games you are missing. If they have them, I am sure they would help. I have a Nick game, a win from Kapuskasing 2004, against a lower-rated player, but still ...
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| | Mar-27-05 S Webb vs Keene, 1973
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Frank Dixon: Grandmaster Keene, thanks for the explanation of your game with IM Webb. His death is really a tragic loss.
I want to express my appreciation for you publishing my Budapest Defence game (win over FM Todd Southam) in your London Times column, last Saturday, March 19th. It came ...
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| | Feb-01-05 David Bronstein
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Frank Dixon: Looking at the Soltis articles about Zurich 1953 on chesscafe.com, and about the pressure put on Bronstein and Keres to arrange games, brings back memories of the article by GM Evans in Chess Life on how Keres was apparently ordered to lose to Botvinnik during the World ...
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| | Jan-17-05 K Spraggett vs F South, 1976
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Frank Dixon: Quite the amazing idea by Kevin Spraggett. Don't know if I recall a Queen sac on move five in any other games! Black never had a chance to wriggle out!
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| | Jan-17-05 Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk
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Frank Dixon: I have a gamescore from a game between IM Bohatirchuk and Dr. George Danilov, from a team match between Ottawa and Kingston in the early 1960s. Danilov wins the game; it is quite original. Bohatirchuk was in his early 70s then, but was still pretty strong. Danilov was Master ...
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| | Jan-15-05 Janosevic vs Geller, 1968
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Frank Dixon: In the 1960s, the American musical composer John Cage issued a piece entitled "What is Music?". It consists of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of complete silence! The Grandmasters Janosevic and Geller also got together in the 1960s, and produced a drawn chess game with no moves ...
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| | Jan-13-05 Scandinavian (B01)
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Frank Dixon: I played the Scandinavian Defence to win my only career simul game against a GM! Here is the game; it's not too bad! W: GM Mark Tseitlin (Israel, FIDE 2484) vs. B: Frank Dixon (CFC 1984), Kapuskasing (Canada) simul, July 15, 2004: 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Nxd5 4.Nf3 g6 5.Be2 Bg7 ...
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| | Jan-11-05 Einstein vs Oppenheimer, 1933
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Frank Dixon: First of all, on Harry Truman's standing as an American president, historians have revised his rating significantly upwards in recent years. (And I am a Canadian!) Here are some of Truman's presidential achievements. Truman had to react to the Communist invasion in Korea in ...
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