Only a couple of weeks after announcing my departure from the chess.com blogs, I'm back. My thanks go to Erik who solved my problems, and to the many people who offered support either in Dozy's Inferno or by PM. It was appreciated. I thought th... Read more »
This will be my last blog post for the forseeable future. When batgirl quit the chess.com blogs three weeks ago her last post spelt out clearly why she was going. The selfishness of those very few people who hog the top blogger spot on the chess... Read more »
On chess.com there's a lot of confusion among less experienced players about whether it's OK to resign, or whether they need to play the game out to the bitter end. Perish the thought! It's the Internet equivalent of wearing a hair shirt. So, ... Read more »
I have to thank my good friend emiab for E-mailing a link to the 2002 movie Two Weeks Notice starring Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock in which Dorian Missick delivers the following enlightened commentary on one half of the human race. “Chess has ... Read more »
There are more than 360 species of shark swimming in the world's oceans, and at the chess board there may well be that many again. Let's consider just four of them. The Great White Shark is the biggest, baddest shark around. In my lifetime, the... Read more »
Writing in his blog recently SuperDude42 wondered what it would be like to be a chess piece. He wondered if, when faced with the warring army from the other side of the board, you would accept death as your duty, or whether you would do a hasty ... Read more »
There are almost as many ways of learning to play chess as there are players. Some people study assiduously; some learn just enough to get by; others take pride in never having studied the game at all; still more just enjoy pushing around those i... Read more »
If you haven't read SonofPearl's new post about “Proposed FIDE Rule Changes” you should get yourself over there and read them now. In fact, if you're not tracking SonofPearl you're missing one of chess.com's most informative sources. He list... Read more »
I first met Uncle Cyril in the 1970s when I joined a correspondence tournament (you know, letters, envelopes, stamps, snail mail). Coincidentally, after we signed on for the tournament he moved from a Sydney beach-side suburb to the Blue Mounta... Read more »
Capablanca's reputation was such that he was famous far beyond chess circles and was a genuine celebrity in his own right. As a celebrity he often found himself in company with the glitterati of the time, among them a Hollywood movie director who... Read more »
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You won't find any advanced chess analysis here, but there'll be plenty of stories about chess and chess players -- often with an off-beat twist.
Feel free to add your comments (pro or con, I don't mind which) or drop me a message.
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The following chess stories appear on my personal web page, Tomorrowland. Some of them have already been published on chess.com, others have not. Click on the links to read them.
A Kind of Immortality
Chess for Grasshoppers
Chess Genie
Chess on the Internet
Chess with Mother Goose
It's About Time
Logic: The Knight's Tour
Maroczy Chess Club
New South Wales Open
Starting a Chess Club
Sweet and Sour Chess
Sydney Simuls
Xmas 2004: Natural Ability
Xmas 2005: The Santa Gambit
Xmas 2006: Die Götterdämmerung
Xmas 2008: Santa's Mate
Yogi Berra, Chess Guru
Mating Positions & Traps
The best selection of Mating Positions and Opening Traps I've seen anywhere can be found in Le Blog de la Batgirl.
They're well worth a visit.
To play through them, click on the link and locate them in the sidebar box at the right of her blog.