Mark's Chess Blog

Every two years the best chess players from each country meet in an international team event called the Chess Olympiad, which features separate men's and women's competitions. The 37th Olympiad, ... Read More

In Two Chess Films, Pocatellan asks if anyone has seen a 1980 Russian biography about Alekhine or a 1987 Cuban/Russian film about Capablanca. They are listed on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), ... Read More

Armenia won the men's event (148 teams) and the Ukraine the women's event (103 teams at the finish) in the 37th Chess Olympiad, Turin, Italy. With the exception of the press in ... Read More

Here are some of our favorite myths about the royal game. Some of these sayings are definitely untrue, some of them are uninformed opinion, and some of them are controversies ... Read More

Your Chess Guide is always interested in web gadgets related to chess. Here are two recent discoveries based on Google. • Google Trends: chess displays a nice graph showing searches ... Read More

A Google search on the phrase 'like a chess game' returns over 40.000 pages. Let's look at the results on the first few pages and decide, 'Is it like a ... Read More

We doubled the number of photos from movie scenes using chess as a prop. Included are a few movies where chess is central to the plot, like 'Dangerous Moves' (1984) ... Read More

In Historical ratings and FIDE inflation, we posted a message from a correspondent who wrote, 'There is very striking evidence of a sudden onset of inflation in or about 1985 ... Read More

Here is a slew of recent product announcements from DGT Projects, MonRoi, Chessbase (Zap!Chess and Shredder 10), PebbleArt, Morfik, and more. DGT Projects announced its Easy Game Timer • 'A new level is set: ... Read More

No one likes to lose at chess, but if you are going to lose you might as well do it in style. Here are a few of our favorite ways ... Read More

The long awaited FIDE election is scheduled for this weekend. Unlike the last half dozen elections, this one was not aborted in the final weeks before the vote, despite the ... Read More

Like most of the chess world in May, the chess blogs were largely preoccupied with the Mtel Masters, the Turin Olympiad, and the World Computer Championship. What will everyone do ... Read More