Carl the Critic: reviews "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" [Caution: Contains Plot Spoilers]

Carl the Critic reviews "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" and tells you why it is better than the first film.

Alice in Wonderland Chess: The Game From Through the Looking Glass

Anyone who has not read this classic, drop everything now and read it. Especially chess players. It, along with "Alice in Wonderland" is one of the greatest books of all time. It is not just a childrens' classic. This book can be appreciated at all...

Tournament Chess

You think you're a pretty decent player, maybe you play your friends here and there, you might have even ventured down to your local chess club at the library, but you're not sure if you're good enough to play...

Chess Openings: King's Gambit

Category – Open Game Opening Move Sequence – 1 e4 e5, 2 f4 ECO Codes – C30 to C39 King's Gambit opening has a long documented history. Both Luis Ramirez de Lucena and Giulio Polerio analyzed this opening in seventeenth...

4 Easy Chess Tactics

Improving chess players or beginners can improve their game by working on their strategies and refining their tactics. This ensures that players engage in the game with much awareness and helps in avoiding...

The Chess Games of Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart not only played chess, but was very good at it. His rating was around 1900, but is said to have been the equivalent of the modern 2100. That's really good, nearly master strength. When asked what things were important to him he...

Chess: Best Pawn Game Ever

How to play chess extremely well

A grandmaster is an extremely good chess player usually in the top 0.02% of all chess players or found on average 1 in 5,000 regular and active chess players. In the chess world a grandmaster is a chess player who has achieved an ELO rating of 2500...

The Chess Game from 2001 Space Odyssey

Hal the computer from "2001, A Space Odyssey" won't allow Dave to make a losing move, but isn't this kind of like saying "You must resign, otherwise I will checkmate you?" Because that's what Dave has to do anyway, supposedly. Oh well, now we have...

"Seekers" of LG Rumor Touch (Virgin Mobile or Sprint) Apps- My Ongoing List of Tested Games

Free touchscreen games to install on the LG Rumor Touch with Virgin Mobile or with Sprint. List of the best games and link to instructions to install.