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Personalize Your Chess News
Did you know that you can have all recent headlines from your favorite chess news sources -- blogs, forums, and news groups -- on a single web page? The My Yahoo! service offers a remarkably easy way to do this.

Add Chess Blogs to Your News Service
Many chess blogs are now enabled with the capability to deliver news feeds. A few you might not know about are: Google News for chess, ChessBase.com, a handful of top chess blogs (syndicate or subscribe?), and Flickr.com for chess photos.

The Week in Chess by Mark Crowther
TWIC! An indispensable resource and a great site. Daily updates on all major tournaments and events, plus GM games to download. Weekly newsletter.

Issues on the Chess Table : Short Draws
'Would you like a draw?' The problem with short draws in chess is not that the games are drawn, but that they are drawn before the result is clear. One of the players proposes a draw and the other accepts. Sometimes the players agree on a draw after only 15-20 moves have been played. These short draws are sometimes called 'grandmaster draws'.

Issues on the Chess Table : Chess as Sport
The decision to consider chess as a sport is more than academic. Sports are often funded from a public treasury. An activity classified as a sport gets funding; an activity not so classified, gets no funding. The arguments against chess as sport always reduce to the absence of a strong physical element.

Issues on the Chess Table : 2007 USCF Executive Board Election
Every two years the USCF has a scheduled election for its top oversight committee, the Executive Board (EB). Since 2003, almost all USCF members have been able to vote in EB elections. The 2007 election is a bit different than previous elections, both for the quality of the candidates and for the size of the issues facing the organization.

Google News
If you can't get enough chess news, don't miss this news search on 'chess'.

Google News Archive Search on 'chess'
This is not the Google News service that revolutionized news broadcasting. This is the associated archive with articles going back decades. Many of the listings are Pay-Per-View, but it's still fun to see the titles and excerpts.

ChessBase News
ChessBase does everything well -- even the news! The home page for ChessBase products.

Chess Oracle
Synopsis of news from various sources. World and monthly news with an emphasis on British chess.

Chess Today
First daily chess newspaper on the Net. Paid subscription with sample issues. By GM Alexander Baburin.

Chess.FM
Internet Chess Radio. Regular weekly schedule plus live events.

ChessVista
'Website of chess photographer Frits Agterdenbos. Provides the international chess community with high quality chess photos and chess news of chess players from international chess events.'

Chesszilla.com
Looking for headlines from all of your favorite chess news sources and blogs? They're here!

E4E5.co.uk
Lots of RSS feeds: 'A Chess Portal : Chess News, Chess Views and Chess Links'.

LatestChess.com
'Our aim is to keep our viewers updated with the latest trends in Chess world. Founded in 2006, LatestChess is a dedicated effort to provide latest news, articles by experts, interviews and much more.'

Rec.games.chess
Google interface to the main chess newsgroups. At one time it was lively, informative, and fun, but now it is a vulgar backwater populated by trolls. Don't believe everything you read.

USCF Press Releases
Official USCF press releases including archive back to 1997.

L'echiquier nicois
French language news site : the "French TWIC". From the Nice Chess Club of France.

Shaun Alexander at Madrona
The Shaun Alexander Foundation and Sprint held a chess tournament for 2nd and 3rd grade students participating in the First Move chess program at Madrona Elementary School, Seattle, Washington, USA.

TWIC 500!
In June 2004, Mark Crowther produced the 500th weekly edition of his TWIC (The Week in Chess) Magazine. We look at TWIC's history using the archive resources available on the Web.