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Remebering Bobby - Saturday, April 16th 2005 11:02 PM
Via One Good Move, 60 reaons why Bobby Fischer will always be remembered fondly by his fans.
Best Place to Play Chess Online? - Saturday, April 16th 2005 9:44 AM
Over at his Confessions of a Chess Novice blog, the newly dubbed Blue Devil Knight of the Knights Errant has posed the question "Where is the best place to play chess online?"...
Morozevich Will Not Play Canadian Open - Saturday, April 16th 2005 7:35 AM
Once again, via ChessTalk Grandmaster Alexander Morozevich has had to reschedule his summer calendar and will not be playing at the Canadian Open this July in Edmonton....
Morozevich to Play Canadian Open - Monday, April 11th 2005 7:00 PM
Via ChessTalk - GM Morozevich is added to the list of top players taking part in the Canadian Open being held in Edmonton this year. With Morozevich added to a line-up that...
A Study Plan I Could Live With - Sunday, April 10th 2005 7:37 PM
From a current review at Chess Cafe, correspondent Derek Grimmell notes, "Consistent daily effort is what drives the patterns deep into the brain, not intense sporadic...
Battle of the Bloggers II - Sunday, April 10th 2005 7:15 PM
I can't believe I just hung my Queen! and play continued with 18. Qg2 Nxd1 (completely missing the threat!) 19. fxe5 Nd1xe3 20. Qg2f3 Ne3c4 At this point material is...
An Upset Win - Wednesday, April 6th 2005 10:27 PM
Moved up to my highest ever rating (1520) on ChessWorld.net with a strong win over a higher rated player in a four-player, all-play-all tournament. The win also moved me...
Josh Waitzkin - Where is he now? - Tuesday, April 5th 2005 7:17 PM
On reading this story about Josh Waitzkin's recent success in martial arts, I got wondering about how old he is now the entry at Wikipedia puts him at 29. Over the past...
Battle of the Bloggers - Saturday, April 2nd 2005 8:20 AM
In my exploration of the chess blog community I found Rob's World Of Chess and a recent post of his  showing one of his games at ChessWorld.net. Since Rob was already...
This Thing's Got Legs - Friday, April 1st 2005 4:47 PM
It's an old saying in the news business, when a story is hot, "it's got legs".  I was thinking today that this whole chess blogging thing has got legs of it's own and I'm...
More Prime Time Chess - Friday, April 1st 2005 4:36 PM
Still thinking about the idea of chess in prime time as is Gene Venable at ChessWatch, in a post titled "Why Is TV Poker So Much More Popular Than Chess?".  I can't link...
Can prime-time be far off? - Wednesday, March 30th 2005 8:37 PM
Via One Good Move, in this article "Sport of Kings (and Queens)", Susan Polgar ponders the question - Why so few women chess masters? Susan also shares some interesting...
Chess and Anthropology - Tuesday, March 29th 2005 7:01 PM
I'm having difficulty getting connected to ChessWorld.net tonight so, instead of playing and updating my games, I'm wandering the web and came across an intriguing invitation...
Chess Game Silent Movie Style - Monday, March 28th 2005 4:23 PM
Via flickr.com: Here's a unique way to present and annotate a chess game. First, the blurb from "Voodoo Zebra"...   "This is the photographed version of a game I...
Canadian Youth Chess Championships Success - Monday, March 28th 2005 8:29 AM
Couldn't help but notice that this week's edition of the Chessville Weekly  (scroll down for the archives) contained this first round game from the Canadian Youth Chess...
Nice Finish - Sunday, March 27th 2005 8:50 PM
After a fairly dismal day on the boards, 1/3 in a tourney and losing a friendly when I neglected to open up some "luft" for my King and ignored my opponents plan. As Bart...
I Wasn't Going to do This - Sunday, March 27th 2005 7:53 PM
I hadn't planned on giving Bobby Fischer any more "air-time" here on the blog but, Stephen Moss at the Guardian has written a readable piece called Bobby and me. Here's the...
"Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!" - Saturday, March 26th 2005 6:34 PM
As something of a point - counterpoint, IM Jeremy Silman takes quite a differing view in his review of Michael de la Maza's Rapid Chess Improvement. I find myself tending to...
Kevin Spraggett Wins San Sebastian - Saturday, March 26th 2005 1:42 PM
Via Chess Talk: GM Kevin Spraggett of Canada topped the field at the XXVIII Open Internacional Ciudad de San Sebastian with 7.5 points from 9 games. Photo courtesy of...
Canadian Youth Chess Championships - Thursday, March 24th 2005 8:17 PM
Via Stephen Wright's BCCF E-Mail Bulletin. The 2005 Canadian Youth Chess Championships are currently taking place at the Grand Pacific Hotel in Victoria.  Round 1 was...
Regular Programming Now Resumes - Thursday, March 24th 2005 8:47 AM
The big chess story in the major media  is of course that Fischer is safely hiding out in Iceland.  I'm hoping we can put another chapter of that story behind us for...
Leavin' on a Jet Plane - Wednesday, March 23rd 2005 8:04 AM
I can't get Peter, Paul and Mary out of my head since reading this morning's news that U.S. chess legend Bobby Fischer will be permitted to leave Japan for Iceland on Thursday....
Five Major Things - Tuesday, March 22nd 2005 8:42 PM
NM Dan Heisman has a page listing his best Novice Nook columns from Chess Cafe (let's face it they're all good) on his website. Browsing the list, I came across the August...
Bobby Fischer - Citizen of Iceland - Monday, March 21st 2005 3:25 PM
It's official, Iceland's parliament had granted former world chess champion Bobby Fischer citizenship. Japan has said that Fischer would be released to go to Iceland if the...
A Welcome, a Thank You, and Meanwhile... - Sunday, March 20th 2005 12:36 PM
A warm Canadian welcome to everyone surfing in from the links at the Boylston Chess Club Weblog and thanks to DG for posting those links. Meanwhile back at the main...