Elizabeth Spiegel's blog

I find the whole accusation of recruitment weird. I don't think recruitment is in any way wrong, but I am also fairly certain I have nev...

The Scholastic Council should all resign.       Let me backtrack.  In late March, Nura Baala, 7th grade, 1900, transferred from Success Aca...

Heres a talk I gave for the Chess Educator of the Year Award at UT Dallas. https://youtu.be/__CPZu4ckjM

My hat is off to the USCF Ethics Committee for coming to the correct decision in the Henderson case, also for some beautiful writing and i...

We had two math and statistics professionals look into the likelihood of the New Mexico/ Henderson events occurring. The first report is...

       Let me say first that my assistant principal, John Galvin, is the greatest detective in the world . He's the one who originally c...

USCF President Carol Meyers issued a statement that began "1. No cheating happened, nor is alleged to have happened, at the 2018 Nati...

So the USCF put out this statement , which I consider an laughable shirking of their responsibilities.  "T he US Chess Federation has...

Last weekend, at the National Junior High School Chess Cha mpi onship, Henderson Middle School from El Paso Texas "won" the u nd...

Use peak ratings as eligibility for under sections at nationals. Children's ratings should not be going down. This solves the problem a...