Neil Brennen
- Gender: Male
- Location: Pennsylvania : United States
About Me
I am Historian for the Pennsylvania State Chess Federation, and winner of Chess Journalists of America awards for Best Historical Article and Best Web-published Book Review. My work has been published at The Campbell Report, Chess Cafe, and Chessville, and in Chess Life, Quarterly for Chess History, Georgia Chess, Illinois Chess Bulletin, Iowa Chess News En Passant, Chess IN Indiana, Texas Knights, and other magazines. I was editor of The Pennswoodpusher, and associate editor of Correspondence Chess News. I'm also a first time bike rider working on being a serious cyclist.
Interests
- bicycling
- chess
- history
- chess history
- literature
- classical music
- theater
- Shakespeare
- exercise
- self-improvement
Favorite Movies
- Citizen Kane
- Rear Window
- Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
- Duck Soup
- To Be Or Not To Be (original - not the remake)
- Blazing Saddles
- Vertigo
- North By Northwest
- Adventures of Robin Hood
Favorite Music
- Bach
- Mozart
- Handel
- Prokofiev
- Shostakovich
- Gottschalk
- Mendelssohn
- Haydn
- Beethoven
- Sullivan
- Berlioz
- Saint-Saens
Favorite Books
- Candide
- Riverside Shakespeare
- Collected Works of W. S. Gilbert
- Heft on Wheels
- The Thought of High Windows
- Guns of August
- Historian's Fallacies
- In Defense of History
My Blogs |
Team Members |
| Historian On Two Wheels: From 0 to 100 ... and Beyond | |
|---|---|
| Pedalwest Destiny! | |
| Team Clydesdale | bautieri James Herb |
