Chess News

Swapping the French bishop
Chess: Examines two ideas in the French Defence where Black looks to effect an early exchange of his bad bishop.

ChessGenius one of the featured games on Game du Jour
ChessGenius is a highly acclaimed PC chess game, and it is one of the discounted games on GameDuJour.com this week. Game du Jour is the "one deal a day" site for casual PC games.

SQLChess - A tutorial on thinking in sets
Chess makes a fantastic game for programming examples. Unfortunately, most of these examples do not use a database or if they do, treat the database as nothing more than a storage repository. In this series of articles we will use SQL Server and T-SQL to implement the game of chess with an emphasis on thinking in sets.

Public school offers pupils a chance to make smart move
A leading independent school in the UK is offering a £65,000 chess scholarship as part of a drive to open up access to children of all backgrounds and talents. Whereas most scholarships are are for pupils that show exceptional academic, sporting or musical ability, Millfield school in Somerset is seeking chess talents.

How not to play the Scandanavian Defence
Illustrates how not ot play the Scandanavian Defence with a game by former World Chess Champion Boris Spassky

Concept: OLED based Chinese chess board
Simulate playing Go (a strategic board game for two players) wherever whenever with a touch of technology. The styling uses the traditional calligraphy and painting of the open-book system and the OLED board can be rolled up like a scroll and conveniently transported. Endless entertainment.

Epic chess game photo question
The latest photo challenge from Chess Tales asks you to name the 2 famous chess players watching an epic encounter between Viktor Korchnoi and Garry Kasparov

Chess in the Attic: May 1979
Remembers a 16 year old Garry Kasparov's sensational victory at the Banja Luka chess international

Chess improvement 8: Extending your repertoire
Reveals how the Chess Tales author used a key game, DVD and Internet to add the Queen's Gambit to his chess opening repertoire

How To Build a Chess Board
Building an heirloom-quality chess or checkers board with a surprisingly small amount of wood. This is a great project for using up some small, otherwise unusable pieces of wood you may have laying around your shop. It's very easy to build even with woodworking hobbyist tools, and it doesn't consume a lot of expensive wood.

Aesthetic vs Practical in Chess
Looks at the paradox between pleasure and perfection in Chess, illustrated with games that featured 2 beautiful, but not necessarily strongest moves.

Unfortunate end to Tynemouth chess club's knock out campaign
Fragments of three games, including a nice win with the Black side of the Sveshnikov

Java Fest to feature free coffee, live music May 20 on East Colfax
The metro area's only festival dedicated to the pursuit of java nirvana features coffee samplings, live music by Bop Skizzum, Wendy Woo, Xiren and deja vu, belly dancing by Aphrodite, a market, chair massage, life-size chess, an Ethiopian coffee ceremony at 10 a.m., handwriting analysis and much more. Admission, activities and samplings are free.

Great new kind of chess on line game - "Frontiers" - Brilliant!
This is a new type of chess game, but this time each player has two teams to manage. The rules are a bit different but the principle is the same. This game was shown yesterday on an Israeli TV channel, and it has a lot of money invested in it's development. You can play against the computer or against another opponent on line. Very very cool.

Prominent Putin critics arrested ahead of EU-Russia summit
Moscow - Russian police arrested prominent government critics Friday ahead of an EU-Russia summit that is to start later in the day.Opposition politician and former chess champion Garry Kasparov; Eduard Limonov, the founder of the banned National Bolshevik Party; and human-rights advocate Lev Ponomaryov were arrested at the Moscow airport as the

Chess in Amsterdam: beer and a board
Paul Dargan writes for Chess Tales about a great cafe to grab a beer and a game of chess in Amsterdam

Unique 4 Person Chess Board Game
Chess44 - Chess "Four Four", is a very fun and imaginative chess set that allows 4 people to play at the same time. No more watching your two friend play with themselves. Join in on the action with Chess44.

Chess in Amsterdam: books
Paul Dargan writes for Chess Tales about a recent trip to "Het Paard" chess book shop in Amsterdam

Winning with opposite coloured bishops
Looks at a wonderful chess ending played by Mikhail Botvinnik

The Giant Chess Set
It won’t be an exaggeration to say that those who have an obsession for chess do not mind going overboard to pamper their gaming instincts and this giant sized ches game is one such way of pampering

Sicilian Morra Gambit, The Siberian Trap
Looks at a chess trap that wins White's queen in just 10 moves in the Sicilan Defence Morra Gambit

Magnificent Chess Board [PIC]
check out this chess board... brought to you by the creator of the "Shower Gas Mask" ...

Chess in the Attic, March 1986
Looks at Glenn Flear's tremendous victory against the odds at the GLC London Chess Tournament in 1986

Giant Plastic Chess Set
A fun way for beginners to learn this traditional game of skill and cunning

USB Chess Set
Super cool USB Chess Set that travels well and allows you to play others through email. Also you can save your game via a jpg. file.

Chess champions
Webber J. Charles, an art teacher at Edison Park Elementary School, seemed an unlikely choice to coach the chess team when it was started two years ago.

Garry Kasparov vs. Mikhail Tal, Spartakiade 1983
Chess Magazine's September 1983 coverage of a superb encounter between Garry Kasparov and Mikhail Tal

Why Humans Are Losing To Computers In Chess
Ten years ago today, a computer beat the world chess champion in a six-game match. Since then, human champs have played three more matches against machines, scoring two draws and a loss. Grandmasters are being crushed. This article examines why.

Name the chess players
Photo teaser on Chess Tales to name the two chess players playing one of the most famous games

How 2: Photo Editing (using online tools for ultra mobile devices)
In certain old school mainstream tech media I've seen benchmarking of ultra mobiles that includes running the venerable image editor PhotoShop from Adobe. Like chess that takes 2 hours to learn and a lifetime to master Photoshop is the most powerful tool around for editing your images. But I'd argue that its not the right tool for an ultra mobile d

The Age of the Supercomputer
Ten years ago, Deep Blue beat a world chess champion. Now supercomputers are poised to move into the business world in a big way.

Only Nerds Play Chess? Not True At All
Photogenic collection from the Torino Chess Olympiad 2006 generated enormous interests from around the world with over 10,000 people taking part in the vote. The voting has closed and these are the votes for the most photogenic players at the Torino 2006 Chess Olympiads. Check out the Top 20 most photogenic players.

Chess improvement 7: Tactical awareness
The latest improvement tip from Chess Tales. Looks at the importance of tactics in chess, and gives a list of recommended resources (books, dvds and Internet)

Galcon - Conquer the Galaxy in five minutes!
Galcon is an awesome high-paced multi-player galactic action-strategy game. You send swarms of ships from planet to planet to take over the galaxy. This is the most addictive game since World of Warcraft! It's as strategy-driven as Chess, and features one-player action in addition to insane multiplayer games of up to 12 players!

Only nerdy guys can play chess right?
Remember the last time you said chess players were nerdy? (Btw, read the comments, there's something better!)

Chess on Peep Show
Chess makes it onto Britain's top TV comedy, Peep Show. You can watch the whole episode online.

Play chess, watch as computer thinks!
Before it moves, you can see all the processes that the computer uses to calculate the next move. Neat!

Chess: la question people du mercredi
A super photo of one of the great chess tournaments of the early 20th Century, with competitors including Capablanca, Lasker, Alekhine, Rubinstein, Tarrasch and Nimzowitsch. The challenge is to name the tournament.

AJAX based chess problems site
Interesting use of AJAX and Yahoo's javascript library to produce a chess problem solving user interface.

Friday chess puzzle 5
The latest Friday chess puzzles from Chess Tales, featuring two kings getting hunted down