...in chess as in life.
In a previous blog, I wrote about my favorite chess sites, and today I wanted to share some of the free audio-visual chess resources that I have come across on the web. AudioLet’s begin with a collection of radio interviews that Bobby Fische... Read more »
The unfortunate, but universal truth is that we have all lost games by blundering. The reason for it is that we are human, mortal and fallible, as the great writers since Sophocles have well documented. Thus, when we see the games by m... Read more »
[Note added on Jan 15, 2007: Max Wootton (mxdplay4 here on chess.com) has discovered some errors in my calculations. We are corresponding on this topic and when all corrections have been determined, a correction will be made... Read more »
The term “Six Sigma” comes from statistical quality control and refers to a quality process so robust that you can manufacture goods with only 3.4 defects per million, which is six standard deviations (sigma) from the average in a &lsq... Read more »
Chess is a game of small advantages and large numbers. For example, according to the U.S. Census Bureau population clock (http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html) there were 6,637,552,653 people living on the earth on December 14, 2... Read more »
Every beginning chess player who aspires to become better has asked this question. The author of one introductory openings book that I read suggests that you find an opening that suits your style, and learn that. But my immediate react... Read more »
We play chess because it seduces our intellect, is an analogue to life itself, and represents the ever-elusive quest for mental and emotional elegance.At least that’s why I play chess. You might just play it because you enjoy beating t... Read more »
Here are my Top 20 chess URLs -- with annotations! (in no particular order, so keep reading, some of the best are down below) [OK, OK, there are really 21. Or is it 10101? Computer Scientists will understand, in either case.] 0. ... Read more »
[Note added on Nov 25: I've already decided that this blog should be more than just what is listed below. See my subsequent blog entries, which should be of general interest. The inaugural post below will only be relevant for the k... Read more »
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Blogs that I Personally Like:
Chess is Good for Your Mind
Best Chess Quotes You've Never Seen
Even the Gods Can Blunder
A Tour of the Knight's Tour
How Your Chess Program Defeats You, part 1
Chess Comedy!
Chess Jokes: Practical and Otherwise
Be a Six-Sigma Chess Player
Chess Boxing
The Devil's Dictionary of Chess
Who was Giuoco Piano?
Which Openings Should You Learn?
My Continuing Series of Blogs Named after Players:
The Names behind the Openings, Part 1
Bird to Bogo
Caro, Kann and Chigorin – Openings Players
Evans and Göring: Gambiteers
A Greenfield Opening
Who Suggested 1. b3 ??
Nimzowitsch (in 4 syllables)
Petrov and the Mysterious Morphy Self-Mate
What was Philidor Thinking?
The Inauspicious Réti
The Orhid Opening of Robatsch