Chess News

Masters of Their Domain: The Worlds Lesser-Known Competitive Legends
From the competitive fields of wife carrying, chessboxing, high school badminton, pitching professionally while under the influence of drugs, and collecting AOL CDs many people have come and gone, but only a few can truly be called 'Masters of Their Domain'. This is their story, the story of the world's lesser-known competitive legends.

GameKnot.Com / ChessColony.Com Mistreat Account Holders
A first-hand account of how GameKnot.Com / ChessColony.Com treats their players' accounts with complete disregard. People should know how unprofessional and discourteous this service is so they stay away.

The Battle Over Love
The war between brother and sister began as the chess board was placed on the center of the table. Tension filled the air with every move. Mom worriedly looked at our faces hoping and praying that we would finish our game in peace and not in another fight.

Tiger Woods outshines NHL All-Star Game without taking a swing
For many years, I enjoyed the hockey in much the same way as my Australian Shepherd, Duchess enjoys examining a new bug. Sort of with a "hey, look at that. What else is on?" attitude.

Bobby Fischer's Love Life
A recap of chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer's strange love life throughout his days.

Concept Teaser for Encephalon
Two concept arts for the upcoming game Encephalon, a very unique hybrid card-chess game focused on Web 2.0 user experience.

Chess
Basic free online flash game of chess. Enjoy!

Khet: a boardgame like chess, except with more lasers
Proper lasers, ricocheting around the board. The pieces all have mirrors on them, and you have to position them all so you can fire a laser beam that ends up hitting your opponent's Pharoah - it's got an ancient Egyptian theme. "I didn't realise they had lasers, but I guess it does explain those smooth pyramid walls..."

Checkmate in 292 moves
A nice chess problem :) Could you find the solution ?White to move, this is mate in 292 moves !

2nd FICGS chess world championship started...
2nd FICGS chess world championship started... 25 round-robin tournaments and a 8 players knockout tournament. (I'm playing in :)) Join us, you can enter the replacement waiting list.

Crazy Chess Flash Game
Crazy ChessAn incredibly addictive game where you try to stop the pawns before they make it across the board.

Life of a Pawn 2 - Game Design Discussion
An article in a site that tracks the progress of a young start-up's web-based customizable trading card / board game. This article touches on design issues that are inspired by the Chess Pawn.

Teaching a spam filter to play Chess
What happens when you feed chess game data through a bayesian spam filter? A very interesting experiment, and the page walks you through how to try it for yourself.

ICE CHESS: Chess With GIANT Ice Pieces
Interesting pictures of chess being played with huge pieces made of ice.

Learn more about Chess
Some information about this great game of strategy.

Iran Teams Up With Venezuela To Fight U.S. Around the Globe
This is getting more and more dangerous as time passes. This is, in fact, getting into the territory of another Cuban missile crisis. Iran is moving her chess pieces around the board and for some reason we aren’t taking turns with them...

Not Every Chess Game Has a Winner
Not every chess game ends with a clear winner; an opponent that declares checkmate. Occasionally a chess player will choose to resign to their opponent, which is essentially surrendering.