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As '09 draws to a close and 2010 looms, there's a buzz in the air. By "air," I'm really referring more specifically to the world of chess blogs, and by "buzz" I mean a renewed enthusiasm for sharing advice, ideas and personal experiences related... Read more »
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." -- Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring. Self-directed students of chess face two common problems: The first is finding enough "spare" time to set aside for training at all. ... Read more »
I've long been a bit nuts for hand-held chess technology... Back in the 20th, I played so many games on my Novag Sapphire that I eventually blew out the LCD. More recently, I got a Palm Z22 PDA exclusively as a hand-held chess computer. Nowa... Read more »
Uncommon Goods has an interesting chess-set for sale here. It doesn't include a board, but you can draw your own, using one of the white Bishops perhaps... Honestly, I can't see parting with $20 for a set this disposable. Also, ca... Read more »
I received a couple of coupon codes from the folks over at Chess House and took an opportunity to re-visit their site to see what was new. Before long, I ended up in their "variants" section. Normally, I don't have too much time for variants, ... Read more »
I was in the book store the other day and I wandered over to see if there were any interesting new chess books in the Games section. There weren't, but they had a shiny new set of manuals for D&D (4th edition, I think it was), and I spent ab... Read more »
DeepGreene
Vancouver BC, Canada
Chess is an example of something that is just beyond human mental abilities, but not so far beyond them that we cannot make a decent stab at it. We’re very good at language, no better than rats at mazes, and somewhere in between at chess.
– Noam Chomsky