Elizabeth Spiegel's blog

I'm excited about the upcoming USCL season! The NY Knights roster is below, as well as some of our possible lineups. Now's your chan...

Last Friday, I took a small group of kids to visit Jane Street Hedge Fund. Sandor Lehoczky, our kind host, gave us a quick but extremely inf...

I am inordinantly proud of myself that I've started running. We bought a treadmill in June, and I am running 4-5 days a week. I like...

Paul Tough's second book, How Children Succeed , is coming out September 4. The third chapter is about chess, specifically the IS ...

I am thrilled to tell you that my video, IM Greg Shahade vs. 10 year old chess master has over 50,000 views! I am less thrilled to tell y...

Which country has the fewest athletes competing in the London Olympics? I had never heard of the answer-country, Nauru, which turns out...

So I lost my non-drivers licence. I went to a Counting Crows concert on Tuesday and wanted to bring as little as possible in my pockets, so ...

ADM 12-20(Jim Berry, OK) Add to Article III, Section 8 the following: The USCF will offer any person under the age of 13 a USCF life membe...

nice tiles, right? Also, the ultimate arbiter, Geurt Gijssen at Chesscafe, agrees with me that James Black's first round repa...