Out and About ... I've recently accepted the opportunity to be the Chess Guide at About.com. The position, previously held by David Dunbar, has been vacant...
Site review - History of computer chess programs ... Earlier this year I realized that my master list of chess history links was missing a site for computer...
Follow the money - NAO ... The recent flurry of announcements on the subject of 'Reunification of the Chess World' saw joint statements by sponsors unknown to...
Site review - Schach-Zettel ... Some of the chess history sites that I look at are, in all fairness, not particularly interesting. The compensation is that...
Follow the money - Einstein Group ... At the beginning of the year, the chess world learned that 'Einstein is Game On'. A press release announced that,...
Summary of recent reviews ... The tournament to produce a contender for Kramnik is underway. In case you haven't seen it, the main address of the site is... ...
La Bourdonnais annotates Philidor++ ... As I was working on my next review, I suddenly realized that I would not have the time to finish it before an...
Site review - Chesmayne ... Most information on the Internet seems to be free. In case you're tempted to say, 'It's all worth what you pay for it', please...
Site review - La Mecca Chess Encyclopedia ... A few months ago I received an email saying, 'You used to have a link to a biography type of site. I can no...
Site review - Chess art and culture Is chess an art? Former world champion Tigran Petrosian didn't think so. 'Chess does not belong to art, as it is devoid of...
Site review - Another view on Chess Good websites about the origin of chess are few and far between. One of the best is a bilingual (English & French) site... ...
There's no review here. I spent my time on this issue preparing a background page for my main site... World Chess Championship : 2001-02 Braingames ...
Site review - Full circle It's hard to believe that it's been almost three years since I posted the first of these site reviews. I'd opened a discussion group...
In January, Ruslan Ponomariov was crowned the new FIDE world champion after defeating Vassily Ivanchuk 4.5-2.5 (+2-0=5) in the FIDE Knockout finals. Ponomariov...
Guillaume Le Breton Deschapelles An unplanned trip to a wintry Vermont has prevented me from finishing the work I had planned for this issue. Instead, I took...
Site review - Chessmetrics Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, ... : who was the greatest world chess champion of all time? Petrosian was the world champ in 1964,...
FIDE Knockout Tournaments The chess world is divided into two camps : those who accept the FIDE Knockout tournament as a real world chess championship and...
Correspondence Chess ... The chess world has a new Women's Champion! Zhu Chen (China) defeated 17 year old Alexandra Kosteniuk (Russia) in the final round of...
Chess Directories ... You may not have seen it on prime time TV news or sports, but the latest edition of the FIDE World Championship Knockout is now underway...
Kasparov's record It's been exactly one year since I made my first compilation of games by a single player. The subject was Kasparov and the occasion was the ...
Site review - Schachgeschichte It seems like a long time since I last reviewed a real web site. For those of you who have recently joined this email list, the...
11 September 2001 In memory of those who lost their lives. May their souls find peace. May their families and friends find comfort. May we who watched find ...
Review - Chess Informant's 'Chess Is Chess' II In my last review I looked at the structure and content of the Chess Informant (CI) 'Chess Is Chess' CD. The CD...
Review - Chess Informant's 'Chess Is Chess' Like most people, I get a generous amount of unsolicited email, more commonly known as spam, usually from people...
Portrait of La Bourdonnais 'A change comes over the Régence, and the noise reaches its climax, as if the elements of confusion in the caldron had received...
Site review - Schach-Datenbank++ ... [This is the first issue of 'Chess History on the Web' using Yahoo Groups as the distribution service. In the last issue...
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