Rod Edwards, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Victoria


Other stuff


Layla Osberg - award winning coffee artist (also my niece)
Erik and Carl Osberg - artists (also my nephews)
Erik's web site
and a painting of Carl's
Terri Peters, an architect and architecture journalist (also my niece)



Viking Siege - an ancient Scandinavian boardgame

(works under DOS or Windows systems up to some versions of XP, but not Vista or Windows 7; works slowly under DOSBOX)

Edo Historical Chess Ratings - A new historical chess rating system applied to results from 1809-1910


International (FIDE) chess rating inflation - Some analysis


An article I published on an interesting historical woman chess player and problemist:
Judy, a Forgotton Genius of the 1850s (Part 1)
Judy, a Forgotton Genius of the 1850s (Part 2)

Some of Judy's games can be played through online at Batgirl's chess blog.
Batgirl has also kindly posted a selection of Judy's problems for me [Part i] [Part ii] [Part iii] [Part iv] [Part v] [Part vi] [Part vii].

Another historical article I published on the ChessCafé website:
'Le temps des combats de géants'


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Last updated: 10 Nov. 2011