Last night slipped into an early morning before I turned in because I was watching the latest IM Dr. Kopec video, “THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP.” I became too tired to finish it as I was approaching the last part. I began watching this fascinating story in my hotel room at the 25th annual Eastern Class Championships in Sturbridge, Massachusetts Sunday morning. Even though I have read and re-read these stories and followed the fresh reports of chess events since before the Fischer years, this video brought new life into the 150+ years-old story of the world chess champions. Amazingly enough, Dr. Kopec packed all of this into one DVD lasting nearly 4½ hours. I find myself wanting even more, wishing for inclusion of some of the earlier players like Philidor, Staunton, Tchigorin, Rubinstein, Tarrasch, Nimzovitch and Keres. But there are so many great players that came close to the pinnacle of chess and the history too rich to include them all in one video. As Dr. Kopec said, “It had to start somewhere!” You can bet that I’ll be watching this again, as I already have with his other eight videos on chess. IM Dr. Kopec is highly entertaining and instructive and I heartily recommend his videos and books as well. For information on how to order this and many more books and videos on chess, go to http://kopecchess.com/