Elizabeth Spiegel's blog

Jonathan and I had a fun day taking silly reflection photos: sun(dress) + sunbeams! sunglasses! a mirror at the exit of a car park. a glas...

Jonathan does a hand stand in front of an elephant standing on its trunk. I sit on a giant cat. I feel strongly that all public scuptures sh...

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Three cheers for Justus Williams (isn´t that a great photo?), who finished third in the U 12 section of the North American Open (5.5/7) and...

Justus Williams will play for the New York Knights and James Black for the Manhattan Applesauce. The USCL website calls both players excitin...

Sevan Muradian, organizer extraordinaire , is raffling off four 7" Android O/S tablets ( aka aPads ) to his North American Chess Associ...

Have You Seen This Man’s Pants? A Tale of Loss and Hope One morning in Brooklyn, Adam Grossetti lost his pants. read more

I´m now in Barcelona; what a fun city! Unfortunately, I have a cold, so I´m not enjoying it today, but here are some photos from yesterday: ...

Before we delve into the main subject of this post, chess politics, let´s go for a quick walk down memory lane. When I was little, I had two...