Chess Blogs 195 Chess 2012-02-08T19:24:00 Sporting man barry.david.adams@googlemail.com Chess.com - Play. Learn. Share. 2012-02-08T18:53:04

Lesson 1 - Tactics (page 3)    Recommendations for Lesson 1 "in-depth" self training    Ubisoft Chessmaster 11 (One of the greatest interactive voice-supported tutorials I have seen) Chess.com Tactical Trainer (Only if you have a membersh...

42a4374aab461594c7a8c1677752d5d5 GilaChess Blog 2012-02-08T08:50:51

There is lots of fun playing fast chess online. I mean really fast, below 3 minutes. Here is a 2 min + 2 sec increment game I played against the ArrogantFrenchman on FICS. With a nick like that I was hoping to get some really arrogant remarks and I wasn’t disappointed I lost my first [...]

eab6192bd889c00604a3217ce0e761d5 The Chess Drum 2012-02-07T23:09:57

The second episode of the “Xtreme Chess Championship” has aired featured eight aspirants. In the first episode, Justus Williams toppled Kevin Wang while FM Kassa Korley beat Shawn Martinez. Both players will advance to play the winners of the Kats-Barnett and Melekhina-Liu matches. Co-organizer Jennifer Shahade was excited about the pending matches which pit two [...]

7aaffd3ae3ae953c1f4c23dd048e9597 The Chess Drum 2012-02-07T15:10:31

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Zachary Ramsay, The Jamaica Chess Federation February 5, 2011 Davy and James Take John Powell Memorial Chess Open University of the West Indies students Damion Davy and Stuart James tied for first place in the 2012 John Powell Memorial, after both finished on 5 points from 6 games. The tournament which took [...]

2dfda4f19881d42fcdb1f715d1cf244d The Wholesale Chess Blog 2012-02-06T21:44:04

One Novice Chess-Player’s Quest to Become an Instructor at the Game of Chess Studying chess each and every day for the past two years is quite an accomplishment. During this time, I’ve used my primary source for competition and learning materials to be chess.com. I’ve grown very fond of working with beginners and developing their [...]

05497bcce04ea01bb3b1b8d1ea5e241c GilaChess Blog 2012-02-06T08:02:54

Got quite the satisfaction researching Starcraft 2 tips in the form of videos on the internet. Many of the tips were invaluable and saved me hours of trial and error getting crushed humiliatingly online. There’s no better feeling to see instant improvement after following some ‘expert’ advice. In short the tips were practical. Don’t get [...]

d700540add18339b5803466f49244e14 GilaChess Blog 2012-02-05T03:15:07

Backup woes, a photo by gilachess on Flickr. Portable hard disk are very handy being able to store large amount of data in this day and age of large media files like photos and videos. However over they years I have had two major hard disk crashes. The first wasn’t too bad as I recovered [...]

e6634c8a16ff4a2e4ab4fd59942a37b1 The Chess Drum 2012-02-04T22:31:04

GM Hou Yifan Co-winner of 2012 Gibraltar Chess FestivalPhoto by Ray Morris-Hill. Hou Yifan has been a sensation before her teenage years. She successfully defended her world championship and has since continued her stellar play by leading the Chinese to a gold medal in the World Team Championship, winning the Women’s Grand Prix. However, the [...]

1264642a3691c73f53527728edef3689 The Chess Drum 2012-02-04T00:12:03

After five years of success at Texas Tech, Grandmaster Susan Polgar is taking her chess institute called “SPICE” to Webster University in St. Louis. The program was built into a chess powerhouse with eight Grandmasters and two International Masters hailing from a variety of countries. The ten players will transfer to Webster University and continue [...]

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  I don’t get traffic over 200 per day unless I post major some chess results. Stonemaster 284 visitors yesterday should be the highest ever for any chess blog this year. It’s good to see chess blogs working hard to increase their readership. Definitely hope to see even higher traffic to be achieved this 2012. [...]

e7147cdab50dc39c5e9e6efe5e383142 GilaChess Blog 2012-02-02T02:19:56

Which one are you? Screamers People who sees something they think is wrong or unfair and screams at the top of their lungs to everybody within earshot. They are full of ideas and solutions but they generally will not take affirmative actions themselves but will put the onus on somebody else to solve or fix [...]

c1b60a342ea3fd713c08d56564b7de52 GilaChess Blog 2012-02-02T01:46:47

€49.90 €41.93 without VAT (for Customers outside the EU) $55.33 (without VAT) The above is the listed price from ChessBase Shop. You can now order this as a digital download without the expensive cost of shipping etc. However if you do not have a credit card or paypal account you can buy it from Muhammad [...]

f780a45babb081b5b979571ec45c8bd8 The Chess Drum 2012-01-31T00:54:05

GM Levon Aronian (Armenia)2012 Tata Steel ChampionPhoto by Fred Lucas. Levon Aronian of Armenia continues his string of career successes by adding yet another accolade. The 2012 Tata Steel at Wijk aan Zee was a powerhouse tournament with the strongest assembly of players the tournament has seen to date. Certainly, the majority of chess fans [...]

516579fdcde97e8825bc8de0ba14eea7 GilaChess Blog 2012-01-30T05:34:54

ICC vs Playchess. Price comparison     ICC Playchess(basic) Playchess(Premium) Battlenet Original currency USD 69.95 USD 39.40 EURO 49.90 SGD 109.00 RM 213 120 201 265 ICC has a one day offer (today only!) with a USD 5 discount for the 3 month membership. Cost USD 19.95 (RM 60.70) Playchess definitely has a more modern [...]

2c84b5d9247acff6dc78b2be26035fe5 GilaChess Blog 2012-01-30T02:00:10

First blitz win, a photo by gilachess on Flickr. After suffering 90% losses in the multiplayer Starcraft II games the last few days I finally got my first win “rushing” my opponent. Most games last over 30 minutes but this one ended in 10 minutes. Most satisfying. In chess this is equivalent to a less [...]

b1189613fa708981202c9aae084d15e2 The Chess Drum 2012-01-28T13:48:16

Ready for a quick game? No clock? Turn your Android touch-phone into a functional chess clock by downloading the new chess app called Social Chess Clock. Pablo Ovalle told The Chess Drum, I proudly present Social Chess Clock: a free app that allows you to use your Android device as a chess clock. With this [...]

bfbacedcd1b7a654b2366c622cb00871 The Chess Drum 2012-01-28T13:31:21

Philadelphia is where chess happens! The “City of Brotherly Love” has become the hub for several major U.S. tournaments on the east coast. The Sheraton Hotel is also the home of the Philadelphia International, World Open, the National Congress and the Liberty was having its 44th edition during the King Holiday weekend. The tournament drew [...]

9e75b4c1b396d5fd204848d5964a4123 The Chess Drum 2012-01-24T13:01:50

With five round left in the 2012 Tata Steel tournament, the world’s two highest-rated players hold the lead in a tight race. Both Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian hold a half-point lead over Teimour Radjabov and a mere one-point lead over Vassily Ivanchuk, Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura. There are some marquee matchups in the [...]

3075d1ac8303dbf0fbdbfdd214c1c3b1 The Chess Drum 2012-01-20T04:29:17

Providence Oatlhotse The stage has been set for the first tournament in the Botswana Chess Calendar. The tournament dubbed Year Opener will take place from 20th-22 January. The tournament presents an opportunity for last year’s winner CM Providence Oatlhotse to defend his title. Oatlhotse had an impressive run in the past year as he won [...]

0ead2d2af2105e5735b0121aa2a21f09 The Chess Drum 2012-01-19T02:38:59

If someone had predicted that Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian would be leading the Tata Steel Chess tournament (3/4), it would not be much of a surprise. The tournament has been rather competitive with Fabiano Caruana putting in a strong performance in joint second with Teimour Radjabov on 2.5/4. There is a quintet of players [...]

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Do you need beginner’s introduction to chess? There are a lot of things to be learnt when it comes to chess. So make sure you are familiar with the different ways and processes by which you are expected to learn to play chess and have a decent chess set. It always makes a lot of [...]

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When it comes to playing chess you need to know all the basic tips and tricks which are extremely important to the overall process of playing the game. You need to find out different ways in which you can ensure that the game is being played absolutely the right way. First of all, take a [...]

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Today, chess has come a long way. You can not only play it with your friends, you can also play it on the computer. Chess software nowadays is very well developed, indeed, times have really changed! There is human vs. computer chess – in 1996, chess Grandmaster Gary Kasparov played s six-game match against IBM Chess [...]

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Extinction Chess is a chess variant with unusual goal stated particularly for it. Here all the pieces are treated as same. No piece has any special characteristic. It follows the standard rules with the exception in the goal of the player. The goal is not to checkmate the opponent’s king but to capture any one [...]

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This set is a welcome deviation from the conventional color of chess sets. It comes in pure glossy black and white finish. It is a tough looking set that can be brought anywhere. Although not designed for portability, this set can be shown to friends anytime to showcase your taste. With a reasonable price tag, [...]

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Rosewood is one of the best wood materials for making chess pieces. Just like ebony, rosewood is a highly valuable material due to its scarcity. It is strong and heavy and an ideal material in making the black pieces of chess pieces. The craftsmen in ChessBaron exploited the rich combinations of hues in rosewood to [...]

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Chess as a game has been around for millennia already but many people still find it difficult to grasp and master. While it is a notoriously difficult game to play, its innate source of interesting features has kept this game from disappearing throughout history. Even GM Gary Kasparov admitted that “chess is mental torture”. Chess is [...]

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There are lots of Elizabethan chess sets out there in the big wide world, but this one seems extremely nice in the category of quality. The price proves my theory too. But not like it’s extremely expensive. It’s worth the quality you get for these little things. It’s made from crushed marble, and the king [...]

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This is a Civil War chess set from Chess Baron. Nothing too ‘out there’ with this set, but it’s still nice. No eye candy in the pieces, but they do look very well made. especially the knight, who looks like someone spent alot of time and effort on. The price is extremely high though. You [...]

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Awww, another Winnie the Pooh set from ChessBaron. I love this set because of the fact that not only do I love the show, but it brings back old memories long forgotten of my child hood. Kind of brings you back to the wonderful world of being a kid again. And I especially love the [...]

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Now, this is a set of chess pieces I might actually want. Winnie the Pooh use to be my favorite show when I was a kid. That’s practically all I ever watched. I didn’t think anyone still remembered that show enough to make something after it. Awww piglet, you’re so cute. You too Winnie. And [...]

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Awww, how cute. I love these little figures. I almost forgot I’m looking at a chess set. Little cute foxies reading books, and duckys dressed up like my grandma. And some other animal in a little bonnet. I can keep on describing each piece for you but I’m pretty sure you can see for yourself. [...]

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Ya know - I hate when I come across a set that just has nothing interesting to write about it. But that thought didn’t even come close to going though my head when I first saw this set. So much to say about this set! It makes no sense unless it’s based off of some [...]

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This set kind of resembles some other sets Chessbaron offers on their site. It’s based on the old English army during the time of the civil war. Plus it’s hand painted. Which I don’t know who cares. A machine can paint just as well, and you don’t have to pay those things, but whatever floats [...]

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Our favourite chess store has now started stocking the whole range of chess software titles. With Fritz 11 now available and being the main chess software item in demand in the chess community, the whole sector is alight with sales expectation. The whole genre of chess software is a sector that is benefitting from the [...]

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Leaders in decorative chess sets - SAC have completely overhauled their web site and their businesss! They now stock more than just their superb theme chess range and stock staunton chess, travel chess and even chess computers. SAC is the brand that is more recognised in the world than any other decorative chess name. For [...]

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A fantastic chess set in a decorative range - the Gods of Mythology set of chess pieces has stolen the focus for potential chess buyers. The above picture shows why. The excellent photography shows a certain appeal to the males, but the chap is pretty good looking too - right? All in all, a great set to move [...]

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The Novag Star Rub is a superb example of electronic chess. Whilst the Excalibur NY22 has beaten most of it’s rivals into a cocked hat with functionality, the Ruby still wins through with it’s slimline shape and it’s well thought out graphics. The model is one of the best of Novags lines and wins over [...]

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This store feed for chess computers, electronic chess from a UK chess retailer is an example of the power of RSS feeds from search engine optimisation companies such as TurnerDow.com in an increasingly competitive online space. As consumers become more and more savvy with respect to purchasing online, taking advantage of alternative, free means of [...]

9bf5fb02d669238469c85e744e8a2f54 Chess Sets, Chess Boards, Chess Computers | UK 2012-01-16T01:00:24

In Web 2.0 networking - the site Linked-in is a useful SEO resource for outgoing links without the nofollow tag being used and for keeping a tab on resources for your organisation or your personal life. The site allows a typical facebook style accomodation of web resources throughout the web and in real life - we’ve [...]

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Turnaound finance, company rescue. With worsening trade conditions in Europe and the USA - more and more companies are looking at difficulties through financial difficulty. Companies that help failing companies are growing in importance and Beer and Young are the leaders in that field. Rather than just encourage controlled failure in suffeering companies, Beer and [...]

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As seen in pages such as this one on chess computer intelligence, the science of chess computing is alive and kicking at Cambridge University. Chess sets have the social edge but chess computers have the scientific community more engaged. The number of departments in universities across the world engaged in using chess for the furtherance and testing [...]

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A truly amazing chess sets store in the US is called ChessBaron USA, one of the family of stores owned by Baron Turner and Jonathan Stefanczyk. They have over 300 different kinds of chess sets with traditional, themes and unusual categories. We’ve never seen such great designs with a strong staunton flavor but a flair [...]

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In the shrouded world of search engine optimisation, there is now a specialist in optimising websites for favourable placement within search engine results pages. This is obviously a recipe for conflicts of interest, but there is enough variance in the genre to be able to optimise for several different phrases of no interest to other [...]

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Growingly in chess circles, Electronic chess as an industry is a critical part of chess retailing, and a new blog at www.chess-computers.co.uk does a great job of showing how it works - especially in the UK. There’s a post on who dominates chess computer sales in the country and who they come from. It has a post [...]

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Hey - at last - two blogs dedicated to Chess Computers and chess clocks - the site chesscomputer.co.uk and chessclock.co.uk. In retail terms - for any chess retail site, chess computers have become a major factor in sales - particularly at Christmas - they appear to be a great pressy. The major there manufacturers are Saitek, Excalibur [...]

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Wow! As Excalibur were unresponsive to our demands for more stock of the 404-D talking touch chess computer - what a result - a new chess computer that beats it’s competitors into first place several times over. The new handheld makes the most of their borrowed ‘New York Times’ brand phrase and includes a backlight [...]

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Chess puzzles are becoming more and more popular among chess players and starters for enhancing their chess playing skills. This site has a detailed page on Chess Puzzles which will surely enhance your chess playing abilities. There are 3 variations of chess puzzles today. Orthodox and Tactical Chess Puzzles Heterodox Chess Puzzles Chess Miner Chess Puzzles Orthodox and tactical chess [...]

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Chess is said to be one of the oldest games of skill known to man. Some historians claim that the history and origin of chess can be traced down to as early as the 2nd century, and its country of origin to be China. In China, at that time people were playing a game [...]

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       Two sites that promote chess for schools and chess for kids are these on Geocities that have serious information - substantial comment and authority but presented in the form of humour. As an example for schools: “The last five decades has yielded scientific research into the benefits of chess for children and has been [...]

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This example can be seen at GPS chess sets. In chess sales - it’s a great idea to use whatever free exposure anyone will provide - especially if the ‘anyone’ is Google. What started as Froogle became Google Base and now has the less nerdy title Google Product Base, or GPS. Sounds like some new [...]

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Take for example this site for chess computer listings in squidoo, or this eSnips page on chess computers and their electronic merits by a chess retailer. How do they affect sales? How does Web 2.0 affect sales of chess through the web? Briefly Web 2.0 refers to the democratisation of the internet, where instead of relying [...]

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As one of the manufacturing leaders of electronic chess computers, the novag company have done a superb job of this machine. Concentrating on the software, they have made a very strong chess engine for this price level. The computer can connect to a PC for enhanced visualisation and development. It has a database built in [...]

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The Citrine is now foremost Chess Computer for all singing, all dancing electronic chess. Man, this thing aint cheap - but it justifies it’s price tag by functionality that hasn’t been seen since the partial retirement of Kasparov beater Big Blue itself. Chess computers have come a long way from the old ‘press sensory, press harder, now [...]

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Update: This company (eDirectory) proved to be somewhat useless and were just interested in taking money - no sales resulted. Good reason to run to a website search engine optimisation company - ranking in the organics is somewhat precarious whilst Google is still in adolescance. Spreading the risk of being pulled from the organic rankings - many eCommerce [...]

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Have you visited this great chess forum yet? It’s a perfect place to whine about those awful chess retailers or something else about the game, questions (why does the horsey have to move in that awkward way?), opinions, etc. Maybe you have a question about the origin of the game, or want to find out where [...]

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  This was posted (by me) on Matt Cutts site (Goolges face to the world) - I want to know that someone from Google knows about this. Has anyone noticed that with the browser ie7 the google search facility (generally top right) only has searches through Google.com if Google are chosen for searching the web? So if you’re in [...]

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Introduction For good quality chess pieces the woods used are Ebony, Bud Rosewood, Redwood and Rosewood. For lesser quality but still excellent chess pieces, the wood used is Boxwood and Sheesham. For cheap chess pieces the wood is generally not genuine, but is reconstituted wood. Ebony chess pieces, bud rosewood chess pieces, redwood chess pieces are woods used for luxury [...]

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Have you noticed these one page chess stores such as the UK Chess Store ChessBaron? Well, not actually one-page. But through RSS feeds all the store’s products are displayed on one page, so where the feed occurs it’s just one page. You then visit the chess store through one of the many hyperlinks available in the [...]

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What an unusual chess design - the Japanese Chess Set! Who would ever buy such a thing - it’s ugly, it’s weird, it’s strange,… it’s an affront!,… it’s… it’s wonderful! It’s so different, so unusual…! I must have one! It’s pawns are all little Buddha’s  - each giving their little pieces of insight and wisdom on the current [...]

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Imagine you are a chess manufacturer. Constrained by the staunton genre, how do you come up with designs that are significantly different yet in the staunton camp? The designer of the Ultimate chess set (also known as the Napolean) came up with it - and many more designs besides - flair, art, maybe a touch of [...]

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As a chess set online retailer - what does one do when competitors get closer and closer to the throat? When they threaten to make a ‘personal visit’? When they publish some web defamation? And steal photography and other content to use in selling their knock-offs? A maturing internet has allowed opportunities previously having high entry barriers. Hundreds of thousands of have managed to [...]

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Good chess sets have weighting added to the bottom of the pieces. The base is hollowed out, lead poured in, and the base sealed and capped with a leather or felt disc to hide any imperfections. When I first saw a chess piece without the weighting and with the base apart from the piece, it [...]

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Well, kinda. Only they make us do it instead of themselves. It’s not as if we don’t give a reasonable business over the months. We have many parcels, some small some large, but courier profit margins are so thin that they appear to try anything on to make that little extra. Our packages from chess [...]

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Theme chess sets, chess clocks, chess computers, all of these are periferal to our main business. So our sales of them don’t carry as much profit, but hey, we don’t have to stock them or handle the problems with purchasing, returns, etc. But if only the man blowing bubbles at the top of the diagram were really [...]

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Available in Ebony or Rosewood, Lotus chess pieces go back in time some way, and continue to attract customers. As a staunton lover, I don’t quite find myself attracted as much as many appear to be, but the lotus chess set style is certainly here to stay. The bishop is the piece to focus on for design and [...]

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In our online chess store in the UK - 25% of the chess set range are theme chess sets. They are wonderful productions with great attention to detail in the design of the chess set. Whether Isle of Lewis, Battle of Culloden, or Sherlock Holmes, the designs are sumptuous and wonderful. I haven’t done much statistical [...]

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It’s all very well having a prescribed design such as Staunton to work with. Sure - we all know where we are,  we all know which one is the pawn and which the bishop, and the queen has her head-dress, etc., but it has all kinda done away with the amazing artistic display of pre-staunton [...]

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      Retailers the football (soccer) world over are…. enjoying the football, yelling for their side… but also wailing about the retail dry-up it has brought along. Germany must be doing well for retailing - at least the part of Germany where there are hundreds of thousands of football fans to see their teams slug it out [...]

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It seems traditionalists prefer Ebony Chess Pieces, whilst the asthetically minded prefer Bud Rosewood chess - what have you found? I run a store in the UK and people choose Bud Rosewood chess pieces much more than Ebony - with a ratio of around 70/30. The deep colours possible with Bud Rosewood are quite beautiful [...]

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It’s no secret that the vast majority of decent chess sets are made in a small area of India. The country that claims to have invented the game has the ‘privilege’ of supplying the world with it’s excellent designs. Whether it’s Pleasant Times, JS Arts, Ivory Works, Checkmate (and many others), the demand for excellence at [...]

7f155123dcb94ffa8c316411326ec38f Chess Sets, Chess Boards, Chess Computers | UK 2012-01-16T01:00:14

What is it about the Isle of Lewis chess set that gives it the aura of wonderment resulting in it representing a significant chunk of chess sales? It’s not Staunton and can’t be used in tournament play. It’s kinda confusing which piece is which with some exceptions. There are many excellent chess sets available that fulfil the purpose [...]

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Adwords exists to enrich a company we know very little about and less about their rules. We're forced to accept it because they are the dominant search engine. What are the rules of phrase bidding?

c047e68dcc056b83c350f56417bb2b86 Rook House Chess Blog 2012-01-16T00:59:19

The 1886 London International Chess Tournament played host to some of the greatest players of its day and left us with many interesting games to analyze over the years. One participant of interest was an up and coming American chess player by the name of Samuel Lipschutz, who had the seemingly unfortunate luck of having to face the legendary [...]

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SOFIA, BULGARIA – Viswanathan Anand defeated Veselin Topalov with the Black pieces in the 12th and deciding game of their world championship match today to retain his title by a score of 6.5 to 5.5.  Topalov’s 32. exf4 may go down as one of the most controversial moves in world chess championship history. Topalov simply [...]

4e078f07e02c0dd4da34639d88d89334 Rook House Chess Blog 2012-01-16T00:59:17

During my extensive research on Jackson Showalter, I recently came across this article from 1916 that details an inexplicable eleven move checkmate suffered by then American chess champion Frank Marshall at a Brooklyn, New York simul. The article is shown below and the moves of the game are also given. SOURCE: Washington Post – April 23rd, 1916 [...]

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The third Moscow international chess tournament in 1936 had an impressive field of participants, including two former world champions (Jose Raul Capablanca, Emanuel Lasker) and one future world champion (Mikhail Botvinnik).  The tournament took place at the Hall of Columns in Moscow, Russia from May 14th to June 8th, 1936. The solid mix of Western and Soviet competitors [...]

92e1957ce3d00bb6ed09a1ae0a89cd83 Rook House Chess Blog 2012-01-16T00:59:15

  One year ago today, the greatest chess player of all time passed away in Iceland of kidney failure.  Bobby Fischer was 64 years old when he died and despite the fact that he had not played competitive chess since 1992, he was still the most talked about player in the annals of chess history. There have  since [...]

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Stefano Roselli del Turco was a strong international chess player in the 1920′s and 1930′s.  He won the Italian Chess Championship in 1920, 1923, and 1931.  Even this strong chess master was not immune to bad games or blunders. At the famous 1925 Baden-Baden tournament, he played a game against the legendary Efim Bogoljubow in which he [...]

9ae40508788bd3daa67a8724759db66e Rook House Chess Blog 2012-01-16T00:59:13

Samuel Reshevsky, the legendary chess prodigy who was born in Poland and later immigrated to the United States, made his tournament debut at the age of 10 years old.  The site was the Chess Club International in New York City and the date was October 8th, 1922. The youngster’s opponent was Charles Jaffe, a very [...]

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Which Chess Match That Never Took Place Would You Most Like To Have Seen? Our recent poll poses an interesting question, one of which makes you go back in time and really think about the matchups that never took place.  This is one of the most compelling polls that we’ve come up with and one of [...]

cdf352cb6104a9509674ccd9337cd52c Rook House Chess Blog 2012-01-16T00:59:11

The 1983 qualifying cycle to determine a challenger for Anatoly Karpov was filled with chess legends both past and future.  In the quarterfinal round, up and coming Russian player Garry Kasparov faced off against fellow Russian, Alexander Beliavsky. With Kasparov ahead by a full point, Beliavsky turned out a masterpiece in game 4 of their [...]

aab6eaa13abffa7bb47ed975627dba60 Rook House Chess Blog 2012-01-16T00:59:09

The London International Chess Congress of 1922 provided us with many memorable games.  Jose Raul Capablanca was the reigning world champion at the time and headlined an impressive cast of participants.  His first round game was against future world champion Max Euwe, the very first meeting between these two great players. Capablanca had the black [...]

b3b798a3e79527524432beb5534aa7dc The Wholesale Chess Blog 2012-01-12T19:12:13

We wanted to welcome the new year in with a bang, so we are introducing our new Traditional Staunton Chess Sets! These beautiful sets feature a standard Staunton-style piece and come in a variety of colors. The king height stands at just under 4″ on these babies and every piece is weighted. Along with the [...]

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