Mark's Chess Blog

Dallas won the 2007 USCL championship by beating Boston in the final match of the third season. After the four regulation games finished in a 2-2 deadlock, the title was ... Read More

If you have only one chess book in your library, make it a primer. It should cover the rules of chess, notation, strategy, tactics, openings, and endgames. The day you ... Read More

From time to time on About Chess we take the time to promote Web resources that might otherwise remain hidden to the majority of our casual visitors. This month we ... Read More

In FIDE Grand Prix 2008-2009, your Chess Guide started a thread about this new event for World Championship qualification : 21 players, 6 events of 14 players, each player to play 4 ... Read More

If you liked our feature Every Move Explained : 2007 Barcelona, Krasenkow vs. Nakamura, you'll love the same game on video. Don't miss Chess.FM: Game of the week on YouTube, annotated by former U.S. ... Read More

Every move of the chess game played at the 2007 Barcelona tournament between Mikhail Krasenkow and Hikaru Nakamura is explained move by move. This game is an example of chess ... Read More

Less than two months after the 2007 World Chess Championship in Mexico, a new two year World Championship cycle kicks off with the FIDE World Cup at Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia), 23 November to ... Read More

Chessbase.com reports, Kramnik: 'I have lent Anand the crown'; Anand 'laughs it off'. • The former and current World Champions are scheduled to play a title match in September 2008. Are they posturing for ... Read More

The USA may be the land of the open chess tournament, where anyone can play, but strong closed tournaments, by invitation only, are rare birds. To mark its first year ... Read More

In our September Trek through the chess blogs, Viswanathan Anand had just won the World Championship. The month of October started with reactions from around the chess world. Video: Closing ceremony: 'ChessVibes presents you a ... Read More

A few weeks ago we highlighted YouTube videos about former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov on U.S. television (see Elsewhere on the Web, Kasparov on Video - His Politics). Before retiring from professional ... Read More

In Fischer - Spassky 1972, we discussed a couple of critical positions from the most famous chess match of all time. Since the games were played 35 years ago, this shows once ... Read More

How many music genres have their own chess federation and annual tournament? There's only one that we know of : the Hip-Hop Chess Federation (HHCF), which held its 1st Annual ... Read More

Worth noting on our annual Top-10 Top-11 list (one title is in two volumes) is the larger than usual number of books that can be classified as non-instructional. These even ... Read More

The popular conception of world class chess players often conjures up a combative and surly bunch. Two recent images of former World Chess Champions are Garry Kasparov battling police on ... Read More

'Do you know where I might be able to get a chess authoring tool so that I can create my own puzzles?' After looking into several software packages, we found ... Read More

Looking for a good chess book? How about a great chess book? Over the past year these books have all won awards from three of the most prestigious award givers ... Read More