Mark's Chess Blog

For serious chess players it's no laughing matter, but headline writers have had fun with the events leading up to Vladimir Kramnik's forfeit of game five in the World Championship ... Read More

The 12 game World Chess Championship unification match between GM Vladimir Kramnik and GM Veselin Topalov began in Elista, Kalmykia, on 23 September at 1300 local time. Kramnik's 1.d4 was ... Read More

The Caro-Kann (1.e4 c6) is the fourth most popular response to 1.e4 after 1...c5, 1...e5, and 1...e6, and is considered one of Black's most solid responses to 1.e4. The player ... Read More

We will be tracking the progress of the match in 2006 Kramnik - Topalov match. Comments are welcome!

At the opening cermony for the World Chess Championship unification match, 21 September at Elista, Kalmykia, GM Vladimir Kramnik won the right to start the first game with the White ... Read More

Masters beat most players; grandmasters beat masters; super grandmasters beat grandmasters; and Kasparov beat super grandmasters. What can most players learn from Kasparov? Our answer is that you don't have ... Read More

In Memorizing Chess Openings, we posted an email message received from a correspondent. 'I have written a web page about how to memorize opening moves by using a "trick": mnemonics.' • The page ... Read More

The opening ceremony for the long awaited World Championship Unification Match between GM Vladimir Kramnik of Russia and GM Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria takes place 21 September at Elista, Kalmykia. ... Read More

The events in 1993 which created the schism in the World Championship were initially followed by a string of unqualified successes for the fledgling PCA. Was chess entering its golden ... Read More

The most important match in recent chess history starts 21 September, and almost no one is talking about it! What should FIDE do to promote the match? What can we ... Read More

'Educators and parents looking to connect chess with academics might consider a curriculum unit based on two classics of children's literature: Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking-Glass and J.K. Rowling's ... Read More

We updated our three product pages on chess clocks and, where available, added a link to pricing info on Pricegrabber.com. Before You Buy a Digital Chess Clock • Chronos, DGT, Duel Timer, Excalibur, ... Read More

About Chess would like to recommend an online play site for people who have never played chess online and who are looking for a quick game. These are the criteria ... Read More

August was a newsworthy month for chess and the chess blogs were full of posts about Dortmund 2006, the China vs Russia match, Mainz 2006, the NH Tournament ('Experience vs. ... Read More