Other Good General Chess
Sites
- Ponomariov.com [added
2-Oct-2005]
- A very nice looking site devoted to GM Ruslan Ponomariov. It is
available in both English and Russian, so if you see the Russian version
just look for the "English" link near the top left. It has
the features you would expect: photos, collection of his interviews,
collection of games, biography, list of recent accomplishments. It
also has an unusual feature for submitting questions directly to the
GM.
- Grand Master Varuzhan
Akobian [added 26-June-2005]
- This is a modest site providing a biography, list of results, some
photographs, information about how to obtain chess lessons from the
young GM, and a small selection of his games playable using the MyChessViewer
Java viewer. Hopefully, additional material will be added as time
passes and his good results multiply.
- Chessmix.com [added
14-June-2005]
- Added at the suggestion of Chris Inkiov who described it as, "Chess
games database, world calendar, current events, etc."
- Jude
Acer's 2004 Tour Page [added 14-June-2005]
- Added at the suggestion of Chris Inkiov.
- Nova
Scotia Chess [added 14-May-2005]
- The web site of the Nova Scotia Chess Association. It has
current International news and features for the OTB players of Nova
Scotia, such as games collections and tournament announcements. It
is worthwhile scanning through Our
Newsletters, as well as some other pages.
- Dennis M's Chess Site
[added 11-Apr-2005]
- Dennis Monokroussos is a USCF rated master. This web site
is his chess BLOG, and it looks well done to me. You may know of Dennis
through his ChessBase on-line lectures (he provides links to his archive
of lectures here). He is talking about moving his blog to another
service, so watch for a change of URL in the future.
- United States Chess League
[added 5-Mar-2005]
- Greg Shahade is organizing a chess league to allow the major
cities in the USA to compete on-line. So far three cities are signed
up: New York City, Philadelphia and San Francisco. League play will
begin in the Fall of 2005. 8-player teams will compete on Wednesday
evenings using the Internet Chess Club to broadcast the games on-line.
I suggest following the developments by checking out the web site
from time to time. It sounds like a great concept.
- For Chess Lovers
[added 28-Feb-2005]
- A new web site worth checking out. It's main attractions are collections
of games available for replay using Palview4, a JavaScript replay
package. I enjoyed the tactical puzzles. The site also provides an
email chess club, but I didn't check it out. The endgame section was
still being built. I suspect the site will be expanding soon.
- Stuyvesant Town Chess
Club [added 18-Feb-2005]
- This is an interesting little chess site of a USCF affiliate chess
club. It's worth poking around a bit on the site. My favorite page
is the Chess
Maxims page where you can read some wonderful chess quotes.
- The Baysholiss Collection
[added 8-Feb-2005]
- An interesting looking site with chess memorabilia and other material
devoted to chess history.
- Marf's
Russian Chess Translations [added
23-Nov-2004]
- There is some great stuff on the web in the Russian language. To
quote the intro to this site, "Here you will find great annotations
to recent high-profile events in the chess world, formerly available
ONLY in Russian, translated by James Marfia (USCF rated chess
Master and translator of Bronstein's Zurich 1953)." To
start with he has translated the material on the 2004 Russian Championship
Superfinal on the http://www.chesspro.ru
web site. This is great stuff! Thanks to Chess Today for bringing
this site to my attention. Here's hoping that Marf will be able to
continue posting his high quality translations.
- The Bobby Fischer Unofficial
Home Page [updated 30-Aug-2005]
- Whether you love former world champion Robert J. Fischer
or hate him, it's impossible to ignore him. This web site contains
much of interest about Fischer, including 800 games you can play via
a Java aplet, over 800 games in a downloadable database, biographies
of Fischer and other world champions, photos, articles published about
Fischer, information about Fischer Random Chess (Chess960) and a collection
of Fischer links. Congratulations to Chuck Ayoub on his excellent
and very interesting web site!
- Vladimir Kramnik, World Chess
Champion [added 30-Aug-2004]
- The new web site of the current World Chess Champion Vladimir
Kramnik. It doesn't have a lot of content yet, but it bears watching.
It appears to be professionally designed and looks quite nice. It
has a biography of Kramnik, some photos, over 1,500 games for download
and a Message Board for fans. This is definitely worth watching.
- TWIC - The Week
in Chess by Mark Crowther [updated
18-Aug-2002]
- The best source for current chess news and games. Mark Crowther
is one of the great chess enthusiasts on the web and constantly updates
the news on this site. He also provides many recently played games
for downloading. This is the first place to go to look for OTB news,
though the site basically ignores correspondence chess except for
high profile "Master X vs. the World" type events.
- The Chess Cafe
- One of the most professional and informative sites on the web for
chess enthusiasts. Hanon Russell hosts a number of regular
columns by well-known chess jounalists, including cc authority Tim
Harding. There is a huge amount of material at this site. Don't
miss it.
- GM Chess
- This is an interesting site, particularly for those who follow OTB
chess. They offer free downloads of large collections of games arranged
by player and coverage of major OTB events, in addition to their training
programs available for a fee. It's certainly worth a look. With 1999
FIDE World Champion GM Alexander Khalifmanheading up this organization
and ICCF GM Gennady Nesis, GM Peter Svidler, GM Konstantin
Sakaev and GM Vladimir Epishin on the staff you can expect
the highest quality advice available. Their old web site Grandmaster
Chess School is also still available at the moment.
- Russian Chess
- Interesting coverage of some major OTB events. I recommend a visit.
If you have a modern browser you can follow events "live."
They also have a number of tournaments archived so that you can play
through all the games move by move. This looks like a great site for
those who like to follow the major OTB events.
- La Mecca Chess
Encyclopedia [added 10-Mar-2003]
- Lots of interesting stuff at this site. "Today in the History"
gives some interesting information for the current date, there's an
"International Chess Events" listing, a good set of links
and a lot of chess facts under the heading "Who, When and Where."
I even spotted an ICCF Congress announcement from Pedro Hegoburu under
"Last News." There's lots more, too.
- Palamede - Major world chess
sites working together [updated 29-September-2004]
- This was a portal to an enormous amount of chess content.
CC.COM joined this family of sites about October 2000 and cooperated
loosely since then, but it now appears to be pretty much gone. Many
of the sites previously associated with Palamede still exist, with
links on the main page of this site. The link given here is to the
personal site of the owner of Palamede Alan Cowderoy. There is an
indication here that Palamede may yet become functional again. For
now, the CC.COM sites are no longer considered part of Palamede.
- GM Alexander Baburin's GrandMaster
Square
- This is an exciting addition to the Internet created by GM Alexander
Baburin, a most interesting and enthusiastic chess journalist.
As an extremely strong competitor himself, he knows all the top players
and has much inside news that most chess players will find fascinating.
In addition to his own material, including interviews, photo gallery,
reports on major events such as the Chess Olympiad and FIDE World
Championship, and other excellent features, he hosts web sites for
other world-class GM's Alexander Morozevich and Lev Psakhis,
where you can download game collections and see annotated games. You
should also check out his latest publishing venture at http://www.chesstoday.net/.
The issues I've seen of this 3-page daily newsletter Chess Todayhave
been excellent, well worth the modest subscription fee. I suggest
checking out all these sites and subscribing to Chess Today
to encourage this exceptional, groundbreaking work and make it possible
for GM Baburin to continue this outstanding work.
- United States Chess Federation
(USCF)
- The official site of the United States Chess Federation
- USCF Master Randy Bauer's Chess Site
- Master Randy Bauer's web site appears to have disappeared.
His great feature "Chess
Tips" (Playing To Win With "Your" Defense) now
appears on Jeremy
Silman's site.
- Chess Archaeology
- Nick Pope's site is devoted to accurate and entertaining
explorations of the history of chess. Here you'll find articles about
significant chess matches of the past as well as photos, drawings,
game collections and references. There's something here for both the
serious chess historian and those simply wishing to sample from our
rich chess heritage. This site is also recommended by John Hilbert.
Nick Pope is also the webmaster & historian for the
Michigan Chess Association.
- EN
PASSANT - Nørresundby Chess Club
- This Danish Chess Club page features software, chess fonts, chess
graphics and selected links ... well worth visiting. They named "The
Campbell Report" the Link of the Month for September
1998 (thanks!) so I can recommend sampling their other selected sites
as well.
- The Chess-L
Archives
- According to the Chess-L chess discussion list moderator Frank Maximus
this web site contains the archives of the discussion group from February
1994 to the present. While the mix of comments by the list contributors
spans the spectrum from intelligent observation to the studiply inane,
there's little doubt an interested reader could spend many hours at
this site.
- Jon
Levitt's Chess Pages
- English GM Jon Levitt's personal web site. There's not a
lot of material here yet but it's worth a visit and holds promise
for the future.
- Pakistan Chess Player [updated
3-Mar-2004]
- A site worth visiting, even if you just read the outrageous column
"200 Words" by Lev Khariton.
- Tim Krabbé's
CHESS CURIOSITIES
- An interesting and eclectic web site by writer, novelist, columnist,
bicycle racer, and chess player Tim Krabbe. He also contributes
a column to Chess Cafe. Everyone should visit here at least
once as there is a lot of interesting chess content here.
- The Retrograde Analysis
Corner [updated 21-Jan-2003]
- A rather neat site with some very interesting retrograde chess problems.
I'm not big into chess problems, but these appeal to me. The URL use
to be http://catv6081.extern.kun.nl/~retro/RetroCorner.html but, at
least temporarily, it has moved here. You might also want to check
out the German-language site at: http://janko.at/Schach/.
- The Open File [added
25-Mar-2001]
- A relatively new site with some interesting articles and photographs
of famous chess players. An interesting feature is the page of chess
stamps featuring chess. Mike G. Petersen and Larry Stoch provide this
site.
- Bill
Wall's Chess Page [added 7-May-2001]
- Bill Wall is a true chess enthusiast who has been involved
with chess for a long time and in many ways. He was Secretary of the
Chess Journalists of America 1985 to 1989. His chess site is fascinating
with both serious and humorous material that will keep you entertained
for hours. I kept laughing out loud at his funny, funny comments.
For example, you know you're a chess addict if "you take a chess
set and book to the bathroom, and forget to go to the bathroom."
Some of his topics: Death of chess players, Beavis and Butthead chess,
Annoying Your Opponent - best techniques, Epigrams of Chess (chess
quotes and sayings) and Pronounce that chess word. Recommended!
- ECU -- European
Chess Union [added 29-July-2001]
- A potentially interesting site for anyone interested in OTB activities
in Europe.
- Chathurangam - India's comprehensive
Chess website [added 22-June-2002]
- Whether you are a fan of GM Viswanathan Anand and GM Krishnan
Sasikiran or like to follow the exploits of the 13 year old phenomenon
WIM Humpy Koneru (soon to be a WGM!), you'll find much of interest
at this excellent site devoted to the chess of India. There are interviews,
pictures and other good features. They also cover some international
chess news. Check out the page Chennai Champs.
- Societa Scacchistica Novarese
[added 14-July-2002]
- The Italian Novara Chess Club has been nice enough to provide an
English version of their interesting little chess site (see "English
version" link in the left navigation area). Check out their How
to Play? link for some interesting chess quizes based on positions
reached in club members' games. They also have some web pages dedicated
to GM Alexei Dreev.
- Jeremy Silman - International
Chess Master [added 3-March-2004]
- This site was a great discovery! Keep an eye on this one. Silman's
gotten off to a good start with a lot of content, including a bunch
of book reviews and some nice articles. I didn't find the non-chess
items so compelling, but anyone who likes one of my favorite cult
classics "Liquid Sky" can't be all bad. Hopefully he'll
dress up the site with some Java replay of the games one day. He wrote
a new book just for this site! And he claims to have been "...
putting in four months worth of fifteen-hour days (seven days a week)"
on this new web site. The news section by John Henderson looks worthwhile.
I strongly recommend a visit. Don't bother using Netscape 4.7, though.
Update: Silman has updated his site giving it a nice, clean
look. It works fine with Netscape now. I still didn't spot any Java
replay, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it show up one day.
- Chess City Magazine [added
4-June-2003]
- I'm not sure what's going on with this site, but it looks potentially
interesting. I would have guessed it had just become dated, since
a lot of links don't work and many photos don't display, but there
has been an obvious recent update (May 2003). Perhaps the site is
just now becoming rejuvinated after a period of lack of interest.
It is labeled, "Edited by Eric Schiller" and there is lots
of information about books. Perhaps this was meant to be a site to
popularize his books. Anyway, it's worth a look.
- GM Peter Svidler Official
Site [added 13-June-2004]
- This is a modest site, but it lists some of Svidler's results and
games, and it has an interesting selection of photos. The webmaster
is not identified and the photos are mostly without captions, but
it is certainly worth visiting the site of any top GM chess player.
- Anjelina Belakovskaia
Home Page [added 24-Oct-2004]
- A modest but professional looking site devoted the 3-time USA woman
champion WGM Anjelina Belakovskaia.
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