This week, we will be looking at a position taken from one of Hikaru Nakamura’s immortal games. Playing the black pieces, the young prodigy faced the experienced Polish grandmaster Michał Krasenkow in the second round of the Casino de Barcelona tournament in 2007. Krasenkow, known for his aggressive attacking style, had just unleashed a brutal tactical shot after […]
The Shapiro Center for Writing, located at 116 Mt. Vernon Street, works to help members of the Wesleyan community develop their academic and creative writing skills. By hosting writers and book readings, it is a space where the English language blossoms. This academic year, the Shapiro Center brought three globally renowned writers into its newly launched Distinguished […]
Picture this: you’re a student at Wesleyan on Friday, Sept. 10, 2004. You’re reading your precious, irreplaceable copy of The Argus and you flip to a page with the headline “Thefacebook.com Comes to Wesleyan” by then-Features Editor Dan Bobkoff ’05. You are ecstatic, this hip new college social media site has finally entered into campus […]
This week, we will be looking at a much more unusual game, for more than one reason. We set the scene in the year 1850, where a 13-year-old Paul Morphy with the white pieces is playing against his father, Alonzo Morphy. Moreover, Paul Morphy is offering his father rook odds, meaning that at the start […]
A program that will teach Wesleyan students how to train service dogs will be coming to the University within the next few months. Mira Alicki, the founder and president of the Forever in My Heart Foundation, will be bringing her program to campus with the support of Adjunct Professor of Physical Education and Head Squash […]
From the pool to the chemistry lab, Jeremy Kim ’23 is active on all sides of campus. When he’s not at practice with the swimming and diving team or researching the polymerization of plastics, Kim is one of the co-chairs of the Korean Student Association (KSA) and works as a writing tutor and mentor at […]
“From the Argives” is a column that explores The Argus’ archives (Argives) and any interesting, topical, poignant, or comical articles that have been published in the past. Given The Argus’ long history on campus and the ever-shifting viewpoints of its student body, the material, subject matter, and perspectives expressed in the archived article may be […]
This week we will be looking at a game from the 2011 Groningen Chess Festival in which Richárd Rapport—a Hungarian-Romanian grandmaster known for his creative strategies and questionable, but tactically brilliant, maneuvers—handily defeated his opponent, Arthur Pijpers. In this game, Pijpers played a Benko gambit; an unusual opening, most likely an attempt to catch Rapport […]
On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine and threatened its capital, Kyiv, the hometown of Yehor Mishchyriak ’26. He remained with his family in the country for nine days before fleeing to Germany. This experience was not novel for Mishchyriak; he had fled from the city of Donetsk when Russia annexed Crimea and threatened […]
At his office in the southeast corner of Hall-Atwater Laboratories, Associate Professor of Chemistry T. David Westmoreland offered a bit of his time to meet with The Argus. Now in his 33rd year of teaching at the University, Westmoreland commented on recent changes in the Chemistry Department and new faculty’s research. To the relief of […]