Photo "pleasant memory": Playing for the Cornell chess team in Singapore, I'm about to do some serious damage to a Leningrad Dutch! My opponent is Ng Kwong Jee from Multimedia University (Singapore) and my teammates are Victor and Victoria Ying and Nan Kong.

FM Matt Bengtson's Chess Pages

"Chess is the touchstone of the intellect." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A bad day at chess is better than any good day of chasing some silly little dimpled ball all over somebody's cow pasture." - Mitchell White, Austin, TX. (Fellow golfers, take note!)

"Chess is not a whit inferior to the violin." - Mikhail Botvinnik

"A chess tournament is not a horse race. Besides official results, it leaves something much more important: games, products of human intellect." - Mikhail Krasenkov (NIC 1998/6)

My chessplaying history
A resumé of the highlights of my life in chess.

My Best Games
A few pleasing displays of competence at the chessboard!

My writings on chess
Includes both previously published and new materials.

A long list of useful chess links on the www