James Neal Mar 15China Finds Patient Zero(You better have a darn good lawyer) Mr. Wang, you have been charged with 150,253 counts of attempted murder and 5,821 counts of murder i...
James Neal Feb 10Port of Burlington 2020Last weekend I traveled to Burlington, my hometown, at the south east corner of Iowa. Now, I wouldn’t travel there just for sightseeing b...
James Neal Sep 24, 2019Scholastic Clubs Predictions (9.24)September 13th - 15th featured the Iowa Open that was being held at the IMU (Iowa Memorial Union) this year. The tournament had been exte...
James Neal Jul 1, 2019Gokul Wins Thunder Quick XIVGokul Thangavel (2086) goes on a tear through a field of 26 other players. He had just come off a 5 game sweep in the Thunder Quick XIII ...
James Neal Jan 29, 2019Team Chess Wars Scholastic Chess Tournament Team Chess Wars January 30th 2019 The cold weather has kept a great few of us from playing chess but this wee...
James Neal Jan 13, 2019Prairie Winter Classic 2019by James Neal (Iowa City Chess Coach) I woke up this morning disturbed, I realized there was a good 6 inches of snow on the ground. Today...
James Neal Nov 17, 20186 Reasons Fabi will BEAT Carlsen!I believe it will be Fabiano Caruana that will become the new World Champion of Chess. My reasons for his success are not on the basis of...
James Neal Nov 13, 2018Central Wins the Coralville K-6 Team Championship!The Coralville Team Championship was created to get the schools motivated to compete. There were 5 teams that competed though 1 of the te...