I had a friend once that had many chess sets. He never played with it though. I even doubted if he know how to play. It served as decoration for him; just a pick of furniture to the left of his fireplace. The darn thing was beautiful though.
The individual pieces were so elegant and [...]
It’s that time of the year again, when everyone is looking for that unique gift to give to a close friend or family member. Being a chess focused website, obviously we have a preference as to what we’ll be recommending this holiday season! So if you are looking at different chess sets here is our [...]
I.S. 318 at NY State ChampionshipsKatie Dellamaggiore, an independent documentary filmmaker from Brooklyn, is raising money for her Chess Movie, about the award-winning I.S. 318 team. Visit her “Kickstarter” page to learn more about the project and to pledge your support. Though they have already met their minimum goal of raising $4,000, they definitely need [...]
ChessBase Light is a program you can download on the right of this newspage.
It is completely free and you have most of the functions of a full database
program. In the latest ChessBase Workshop installment Steve Lopez shows
you how you can analyse games with the standard unregistered [...]
It is frequently anything but easy to make the material superiority of a rook over a bishop tell when all the pawns are on one side of the board. Last month we showed you a game with reduced material in which zugzwang brought about the decision. Today we follow that with an example with more [...]
On March 20th & 21st, the Dean Of Chess Academy in Branchburg will be hosting the 1st Only New Jersey Championship. Registration & Section details follow :1st Only New Jersey ChampionshipMarch 20-21, 2010Dean Of Chess Academy3150 U.S. Route 22 WestBranchburg, NJ 08876Registration 
lease enter online at http://entryfeesrus.com.You can enter by mail, sending checks (payable to [...]
NM Mark Kernighan, Ken Chieu, Ari Minkov, Don Carrelli & I lead after 1 round of the 6th Checkmate CC Championship.For more details, replays, PGN, 2nd round pairings, etc., please visit the Checkmate club’s new site.
168 players took part in the biggest chess festival of closed tournaments in France, with seventeen groups, from the A Group (ten players, average 2526 Elo) all the way to the last group with an average Elo of about 1300. Israeli GM Evgeny Postny won first place with 6.0/9. The venue, the “Conseil General”, is [...]
Britain’s first ever grandmaster, the late Anthony John Miles, was not just
strong but also extremely creative. When this fiery player clashed with Anatoly
Karpov, it was pure provocation facing ice-cold strategy. In his Playchess
presentation Dennis Monokroussos shows us Karpov succeeding – next week
it will [...]
Currently the FIDE rules require that players must be seated at the board no later than zero seconds past the scheduled start of a game. This has led to some unpleasant situations in the past. At the 11th European Individual Championships 110 participants signed a petition to change the grace period to 30 minutes. In [...]
After three rounds in the European Championship Dieter-Liviu Nisipeanu was in the lead. The Romanian GM scored three consecutive wins, including one against Dimitri
Reindermann. Perhaps he was helped in his efforts by an article in ChessBase
Magazine, because in
CBM 132
his compatriot Mihail Marin examined in detail a variation of the Alekhine
Defence, which [...]