Mark's Chess Blog

Time to close the loop on a couple of products that were announced in our last look at chess products (Elsewhere on the Web, Product News, 15 October 2006), but not yet ... Read More

Strategy, sometimes called positional play, and tactics, sometimes called combinational play, are the twin pillars of success at chess. Here is a series of resources on About Chess that will ... Read More

The summer season is always a busy time for chess. A few stories that we don't want to leave hanging are: the 2007 British Championship, the FIDE Ethics Commission, the Rybka Challenge, USCF ... Read More

In There is a little Tal in everyone, 123aku345 shows off a nice sacrifice played on FICS, while in Colock vs. Grandmaster, Colock shows off a game against GM Nakamura played on Facebook. • Do you ... Read More

The Chess Journalists of America (CJA) have announced their 2007 awards. Popular chess writer Mig Greengard, blogmeister of the Daily Dirt Chess Blog, won the prestigious Chess Journalist of the Year award. The ... Read More

Do you want to play chess but aren't sure where to start? Here is a series of resources on About Chess that will lead you through the first steps you ... Read More

The starting lineup for the 2007 World Chess Championship next month in Mexico City includes three of the world's top 5 players : world no.1 Viswanathan Anand, no.3 Vladimir Kramnik, ... Read More

In an old forum thread that resurfaces from time to time -- No longer a beginner? -- your Chess Guide asks, 'What are the characteristics that define a chess player who has ... Read More

Brad Spurgeon, the About.com Guide to Formula 1, has a new feature covering the king of games and the king of motorsports, A Great Chess Player Visits the Formula 1 Paddock, 'VIP ... Read More

Every move of the chess game played at the 1937 Margate tournament between Paul Keres and Sir George Thomas is explained move by move. Paul Keres (1916-1977) was an Estonian ... Read More

The big chess news is on Chessbase.com, the local chess news is on Google news alerts, and the odd chess news is on the blogs. As promised in Blog Trekking, July 2007, here ... Read More

Vote in our new poll, Who will win the World Championship at Mexico City in September? • Not sure who's playing? See the post after the poll for the names of the ... Read More

Sixteen year old Magnus Carlsen won the ten player category 18 grandmaster tournament, held 23 July - 2 August 2007, at Biel (Bienne), Switzerland. After finishing tied with former U.S. champion Alexander ... Read More

The chess blogs had plenty of newsworthy material from the many top class events held during the month of July: Pivdenny Bank Cup (Odessa, won by Vassily Ivanchuk), the Montreal International (Ivanchuk), Banja ... Read More

The summer months are always rich in chess tournaments. July 2007 was especially rich in women's events. We had the U.S. Women's Championship, the MonRoi Women's Grand Prix, the North ... Read More

Do you have a chess blog? Are you looking for more readers? Feel free to post an announcement on our forum. Here are a couple of announcements we've seen recently. Funny ... Read More

What's the best chess movie of all time? In the Five Best Chess Movies, Robert Basalla, author of the definitive work 'Chess in the Movies', lists 'Searching for Bobby Fischer' and 'The Seventh ... Read More