Mark's Chess Blog June 2007 Archive

In MonRoi International Women’s Grand Prix, we posted the text of a press release from MonRoi promoting their 2007 Grand Prix Finale. The event will be an 8-player round robin in Montreal, ... Read More

The latest news from the World Chess Federation (FIDE) on the next World Championship cycle was good news for former World Champion Veselin Topalov and great news for chess fans ... Read More

Just because chess is a serious game doesn't mean it always has to be taken seriously. Need some examples? Top 10 Myths about Chess • People, especially chess players themselves, say the darnedest ... Read More

Chess organizations -- federations, associations, and clubs -- are stable and don't change very often. When we reviewed the links we maintain under the left column topic Organizations / Ratings, we found ... Read More

In The New Odds Chess (the forum's 3000th thread!), oldrlyeh wonders, 'In the current Candidate Matches the final tie-breaker is a game played at a time control of 6 minutes for White ... Read More

Mixed in with all the chess videos on YouTube -- some entertaining, some instructional, and some downright silly -- are a handful showing top chess masters in action at simultaneous ... Read More

Every move of the chess game played at the 1981 Tilburg tournament between Garry Kasparov and Ulf Andersson is explained move by move. Early in his career, Kasparov had already ... Read More

The 2007 FIDE Candidate Matches ended with four players qualifying for the next step in the current World Chess Championship cycle. That event will be an eight player, double round ... Read More

Once again, chess finds its way to Yahoo's 'Odd News'. This time it's a story about the winner of a $35 million lottery: 'What the winner of a huge Canadian lottery jackpot ... Read More

Officials of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, should be more careful how they interpret public documents. The FIDE web site recently declared, Court of Arbitration for Sport Rules in favor of ... Read More

In May, the chess blogs had plenty of news to chew and digest. The big tournaments were the MTel Masters (won by Veselin Topalov), one of the chess circuit's most important ... Read More

What's the most valuable piece of chess real estate in the world -- Garry Kasparov's opening notebook? It might have been before the former world no.1 retired in 2005, but ... Read More

In Sammy Reshevsky, undiversifybc says, 'One of my favorite annotators is GM Sammy Reshevsky', chooses some examples of notes by the American GMs, and starts to explore his body of published work. ... Read More

Two of the hottest general interest topics involving chess are chess in the schools -and- chess and computers. Both have been the subjects of recent essays in Slate Magazine. Chess Goes ... Read More

About Chess welcomes articles and essays from other writers. Here are three recent submissions. Strategies for Chess Players and Other Warriors • From 'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu, 500 B.C. • By Brian ... Read More

There is no shortage of USCF tournaments for junior players. There are so many that it might not be obvious to the casual observer what the differences are. It has been a ... Read More

In Certification for Scholastic Coaches, your Chess Guide forwards a question posted on rec.games.chess: ''Getting chess formally into the schools is a potential gravy train for people who want to be coaches ... Read More

Looking for headlines from all of your favorite news sources and blogs? They're here: Chesszilla.com. It's a great idea, and not just because About Chess is one of the featured sites. You ... Read More