Mark's Chess Blog

The issue of cheating in chess is not going to disappear. In the last six months there have been numerous media reports on the subject. We've been tracking them in ... Read More

One of our pet theories is that the mainstream media is interested in anything about chess as long as it's not chess itself. Three stories recently chosen for Yahoo's 'Odd News' support ... Read More

The 'art of chess' can mean many things. In our image gallery it means chess seen by an artist as a subject in a painting, a drawing, or an illustration. ... Read More

At the end of every year we like to prepare an article about chess as an inspiration for the arts. In the last few years we have done Chess Tactics Illustrated ... Read More

Along with rules about the moves of the pieces, check, and checkmate, chess has other rules governing all aspects of the game, particularly draws. Questions raised in recent months have ... Read More

The rules of chess start with the moves of the six different pieces. Click on any piece in our image gallery to learn more about its moves and its powers. Read ... Read More

David Evans writes to say, 'Christmas time's a-coming but there are few Christmas chess stories available on the Internet, so at Rooty Hill Chess Club in the Land of Oz we write ... Read More

In Deep Fritz, the program, dustinkinney007 launches a discussion about what Vladmir Kramnik's loss to Deep Fritz means to the future of chess, games, and computer software. 'What will be the next ... Read More

Neither a chess book nor a chess history book, in the usual sense that we define those classifications, 'The Immortal Game' by David Shenk stands in a class by itself. ... Read More

The latest man - machine match, featuring World Champion Vladimir Kramnik against the chess playing computer Deep Fritz, ended the same way all similar matches have ended in recent years. ... Read More

About Chess is looking for one online play site to recommend to visitors who want to play online chess for the first time. After some discussion, forum members have narrowed ... Read More

Buying a gift for a chess player is even easier learning how to play the game. No real chess player ever has enough chess sets or enough chess books. Here ... Read More

As November came to an end, the chess blogs were full of news about the Kramnik vs. Fritz man/machine match. Many posts discussed The Horror!, the sudden end to game two when ... Read More

One of the advantages of our forum is the chance to post a game and get comments. Some recent games posted were Bad opening, came back in middle, Suggestions to avoid this ... Read More

At midpoint in the six game man - machine match between World Champion Vladimir Kramnik and strong chess playing computer Deep Fritz, the computer leads 2-1. Kramnik drew games one ... Read More