Mark's Chess Blog

Looking for a gift idea for a chess player? By following our suggestions to Compare Prices, you'll find chess sets, chess boards, and chess specialty items. These should give you ... Read More

To promote his new book How Life Imitates Chess, former World Champion Garry Kasparov has been making the rounds of the talk shows, displaying the same courage and combative spirit ... Read More

In Chess Club Ladder, morggejoc asked 'how to setup a chess club ladder from git-go'. Your Chess Guide had one suggestion. Do you have another?

Every move of the chess game played at the 1927 New York tournament between Alexander Alekhine and Frank Marshall is explained move by move. Alekhine played chess with an aggressive, ... Read More

Our Products / Shopping topic, listed in the left column on all of our pages, is the largest of our 15 topics. The more than 150 links to other resources, most of ... Read More

In 64 Relevant Ranges, baltimoretom shows us his latest visual creations and says, 'If this doesn't do something for your board vision, then I don't know what will!' He explains that 'The ... Read More

When summer ends and vacations are over, we all go back to work or back to school. Chess activity declines, but doesn't stop. In addition to September's World Championship, the blogs ... Read More

The latest scandal to rock the chess world (see Chess Group Officials Accused of Using Internet to Hurt Rivals, 8 October, New York Times) is a classic bad news, good news story. ... Read More

Chess isn't seen much on television, but the game is a perfect match for video. Some people use video clips to teach, while others use them to learn. Fun with Youtube.com • From ... Read More

GM Viswanathan Anand won the World Championship, September 2007 in Mexico City, a point ahead of his nearest rivals. In this tutorial, we look at some of the crucial games ... Read More

We've seen them in major cities all over the world. In September they were featured in two first tier American daily newspapers. Meet the chess hustlers. In Street Chess Games, a ... Read More

Two recent books that have received a lot of attention outside the little world of chess are 'King's Gambit' by Paul Hoffman (Compare Prices) and 'How Life Imitates Chess' by Garry Kasparov (Compare ... Read More

Congratulations to Viswanathan Anand of India, who captured the undisputed title of World Chess Champion by finishing ahead of seven other top grandmasters in Mexico City. Leading by one point ... Read More

A few weeks back we posted a three part series called Getting Started with Chess. Learn to Play Chess Strategy and Tactics Learn the Openings Thanks to everyone who responded to What Am I Missing?. ... Read More