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Features
 Daily
Chess News Links
February 5, 2010
Keep up-to-date with the latest chess news from around the
world with our daily chess news links.
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 Book
of the Year
January 27, 2010
ChessCafe.com 2009 Book of the Year
The three finalist are announced.
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 Book
Review
February 3, 2010
Champions of the New Millennium by Lubomir Ftacnik, Danny Kopec, and Walter Browne
You will glean something new with every reading.
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 The
Skittles Room
February 3, 2010
Georgia Chess Edited by Mark N. Taylor
The 2009 Georgia State Championship has been hijacked!
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 Endgame
Study #680
February 6, 2010
A. Nikitjuk, 1963
Combining beauty and practicality, the Endgame Study is one
of the unique and subtle wonders of the Royal Game.
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From
the Archives
January 30, 2010
The Fiction Gambit by Burt Hochberg
No other game has inspired writers to the extent that chess has.
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 Video
Spotlight
February 6, 2010
2010 Gibraltar Chess Festival
Footage from the 2010 Gibtelecom Chess Festival.
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Step by Step:
Mate
January 27, 2010
Step by Step: Mate is designed to improve your
visualization skills and can be used as a workbook
exercise in a classroom setting.
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 Inside
Chess
by Yasser Seirawan
February 6, 2010
When masters study openings, they do much more than simply memorize moves.
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 Chess Mazes
by Bruce Alberston
February 6, 2010
This is one slithery bishop, stopping off in all quadrants before delivering check.
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 The Openings Explained
by Abby Marshall
February 3, 2010
The Italian Game with 4.Ng5 provides double-edged positions for both sides.
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 Checkpoint
by Carsten Hansen
February 3, 2010
This month's column marks my tenth anniversary as a columnist on this website.
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 Opening
Lanes
by Gary Lane
February 3, 2010
This month I look at maverick openings that involve gambits or independent play.
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 Past
Pieces
by Olimpiu G. Urcan
January 30, 2010
Relive an interesting struggle involving thirteen chess masters gathered in Chicago 1926.
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 Dutch
Treat
by Hans Ree
January 27, 2010
Be careful with the chess players running loose.
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 The
Q & A Way
by Bruce Pandolfini
January 27, 2010
The best way to practice is to simulate game conditions.
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 Over
the Horizons
by Stefan Bücker
January 27, 2010
Unorthodox systems like Myers' g7-g5 deserve a revival.
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 Informant@ChessCafe.com
January 23, 2010
Chess Informant is finalizing the manuscript of its new
book, The Greatest Tournaments 2001-2009.
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 Endgame
Corner
by Karsten Müller
January 20, 2010
A classic example of the Fischer Endgame of rook and strong
bishop vs. rook and knight.
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 Novice
Nook
by Dan Heisman
January 20, 2010
In chess we use a special language, but to not understand it
fully can be detrimental to your chess thinking.
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 An
Arbiter's Notebook
by Geurt Gijssen
January 20, 2010
Can a player himself claim that a piece touched by him must
be moved?
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 ChessBase Cafe
by Louis Lima
January 20, 2010
A spring chicken may be a little naive or unseasoned at
times, but it often makes up in physical agility.
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 ChessOK
Cafe
by Dadi Jonsson
January 16, 2010
With Aquarium 2010 it is possible to run chess analysis on a network of computers.
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 The
Instructor
by Mark Dvoretsky
January 13, 2010
Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise
to a failure by chess players in important duels.
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 Middlegame
Motifs
by Nigel Davies
January 13, 2010
Nigel Davies shows you one of the means of trying to counter
a minority attack.
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 The
Kibitzer
by Tim Harding
January 13, 2010
Tim Harding turns the clock back a century to review the
events in the chess world.
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 Scholastic
Chess
by Steve Goldberg
January 13, 2010
A couple dozen U.S. players and their coaches traveled to
the World Youth Chess Championship.
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