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Free 3.7 Million Game Database - Sunday, April 2nd 2006 5:27 PM
Arild Fredriksen, Webmaster at ChessLib sent a note announcing that the main ChessLib database, ECO A00-E99,  containing 3,752,026 games is available for free!The database...
FICS Anniversary! - Saturday, March 18th 2006 5:59 PM
Here's one I missed! FICS - Free Internet Chess Server is celebrating their 11th anniversary this year. March 5th was the big day! To celebrate, FICS has teamed up with...
Canada's Largest Weekend Open Tourmament - Saturday, March 18th 2006 9:08 AM
Via ChessTalk, Canada's largest weekend open tournament is underway in Trois-Rivieres Quebec. The annual Mauricie Open has a $12,000 prize fund that attracts about 300...
Alberta Chess Champion - Saturday, March 18th 2006 8:44 AM
This week in the Globe and Mail, Jonathan Berry features a game from Vicente Lee who has been rocking the chess world in Alberta. In the past month, Lee won the Northern Alberta...
Get Smarter in a Week - Tuesday, March 14th 2006 4:20 PM
Doing a series of brain exercises can make us 40% smarter in just 7 days! That's according to research presented on a BBC program this week.When I heard this mentioned on local...
Takin' it to the Streets - Monday, March 13th 2006 7:19 PM
Via ChessTalk comes news of a summer event that sounds like fun!"Chess-in-the-Street" is going to be an event within Ottawa's WESTFEST street festival on June 10th and 11th....
Women's World Championship 2006 - Sunday, March 12th 2006 9:45 AM
Natalia Khoudgarian is the lone Canadian taking part in the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship. She was knocked-out in the first round after losing both her games to...
New Blogs on the Block - Monday, March 6th 2006 6:15 PM
Hot on the heels of his new GM title, and amidst a flurry of activity including...a pair of feature articles in the latest issue of Chess Canada, a feature article on...
The Sport of Curling: Chess on Ice - Saturday, February 25th 2006 8:47 AM
[Image: wikipedia.org] Over at BCC, Webmaster DG (hat-tip) has been keeping an eye on the Winter Olympic Games and the overuse of one metaphore in particular comparing curling...
What is it They Say About Art? - Monday, February 20th 2006 8:45 PM
Chess themed artworks link that "explore the game's microcosmic foundation of the universe".
A Few Changes Around Here - Saturday, February 18th 2006 9:24 AM
A week or so ago I upgraded my Bravenet Web Journal account. Gone are all the ads and popups, that were gone anyway for visitors using the Firefox browser, no doubt visitors...
Practical Joke - Sunday, February 5th 2006 8:21 AM
[Photo: ChessBase.com]With a hat-tip to Dennis M, this item at ChessBase is a very funny video clip of a Dutch TV host who plays a trick on world champ Veselin Topalov at the...
It's Here! It's Here! - Saturday, February 4th 2006 9:26 AM
My copy of Win with the London System finally arrived. I'll spare you the long story of how I ordered it before the new year and had it bundled with an out of stock item that...
Ultimate Link Dump - Monday, January 30th 2006 7:08 PM
Bill Wall's Chess Links for 2006 is a collection of nearly 600 chess links......happy browsing!
Pascal in the News - Sunday, January 29th 2006 6:05 PM
[Photo: ChessTalk.com]Via the Chess Talk Message Board, Canada's New GM Pascal Charbonneau recieved a hero's welcome on his return to Canada this week.Here's the article from...
GM Charbonneau Canadian Tour - Monday, January 16th 2006 8:10 PM
As reported on Chess Talk Canada's Chessn' Math Association today announced that Pascal Charbonneau will be on tour across the country later in the year giving a series...
D.I.Y Chessboard - Monday, January 16th 2006 8:04 PM
For any of you who are looking for a winter shop project, this looks like a good one. Shawn Waite provides step-by-step instructions for making your own wood board on his...
Canada's New Grandmaster! - Sunday, January 15th 2006 9:33 AM
As reported elsewhere in the Blogosphere, namely by Susan, Goran, and Sevan,  Pascal Charbonneau secured his final GM norm at the FIDE Winter Chess Tournament in Chicago....
Chess Books on Google - Saturday, January 7th 2006 9:17 AM
Via Threadwatch comes this method for reading books on Google for free! The author of the method, Steve Rubel was using a little known feature of the search at ...
Pascal in Chicago - Wednesday, January 4th 2006 10:19 AM
As recently reported elsewhere, namely by DG at the Boylston Chess Club Blog and by Susan Polgar on her Blog, chess is coming to Chicago next week. The event is a FIDE...
Haida Chess Set - Monday, January 2nd 2006 7:16 PM
I'm not sure if a picture can quite capture the beauty of this chess set ( I know, I know, the board is the wrong way around in the picture), I first saw one of these sets...
2006 British Columbia CC Championship - Monday, January 2nd 2006 9:57 AM
The pairings are up at the ICCF Webchess Site for the biggest chess event I've ever taken part in. The 2006 British Columbia CC Championship starts on January 15th. TD for...
Amazon's Mechanical Turk - Monday, January 2nd 2006 7:58 AM
Via ResearchBuzz comes word of the Amazon Mechanical Turk. However, this Turk won't play a game of chess against you. Seems this Mechanical Turk is a way of enabling...
UMBC Wins Record 7th Pan Am Intercollegiate! - Saturday, December 31st 2005 12:59 PM
Via Susan Polgar comes news that the UMBC Team, led by GM Alex Onischuk has taken their record 7th Pan American Intercollegiate Chess Tournament! Canadian Champion IM...
Blogger Battle - Saturday, December 31st 2005 11:01 AM
Just split a pair of games with DreadPirateJosh. We were playing at ChessWorld.net. Josh bested me in the first game, a Caro-Kann Advance variation. I held my own in the...