Mark's Chess Blog

Every two years the USCF has a scheduled election for its top oversight committee, the Executive Board (EB). Since 2003, almost all USCF members have been able to vote in ... Read More

Veselin Topalov won the six player, category 19, MTel Masters held 9-20 May, in Sofia. After losing two of his first three games in the double round robin event, the Bulgarian came ... Read More

We permit product specific threads in the forum provided they have something to do with chess and are posted in the appropriate folder. That often means folder Commercial Posts & ... Read More

The FIDE Candidate Matches start 26 May, in Elista, Kalmykia. The first round matches have the following pairings. 1) Aronian, Levon (ARM) - Carlsen, Magnus ... Read More

The Internet -- meaning technologies that link networks together -- has been very good to chess. The pre-Internet era goes back to the Dark Age of chess: no online play, ... Read More

The last of the three 2007 U.S. National Scholastic Championships was held this month. For more info on each event, follow the USchess.org (USCF) links. The 2007 National High School (K-12) Championship took ... Read More

In a new forum thread -- 2007 U.S. Championship -- we started tracking the USA's premier event. It's being played 15-23 May, in Stillwater, Oklahoma. A total of 36 players are entered ... Read More

In an uncharacteristically low-key announcement on her personal blog (susanpolgar.blogspot.com), Susan Polgar, the Queen of American chess, confirmed her marriage to Paul Truong, the King of American chess promotion: A special ... Read More

Every move of the chess game played at the 1960 Leipzig Olympiad between Rene Letelier Martner and Robert J. (Bobby) Fischer is explained move by move. The game's themes include ... Read More

Once a month we take the time to review the links listed under one of our left column 'Topics'. This month we tackled Scholastic Chess. Given the current interest about ... Read More

In Websites that review chess videos, your Chess Guide forwards a question from an email correspondent: 'I was wondering if you could recommend any websites that review chess videos or DVDs'. ... Read More

Ten years ago today an IBM computer defeated the reigning World Chess Champion in a serious match played under controlled conditions. It was an extraordinary event that captured media attention ... Read More

Our blog tripping excursions might be over (see Elsewhere on the Web, Blog Tripping in March, 10 April 2007), but we are happy to report that we have acquired a ... Read More

With the increasing dominance of computers in man-machine matches, the 19th century tradition of giving odds to a weaker player is returning to vogue. Here is an introduction to 'Types ... Read More

The French Defense is the title of a thread started by Colock, which links to a play of the same name based on game one of the 1960 Botvinnik - ... Read More