A quick tour of the chess-sphere

1. Ed Galliard has a nice post on recapturing the joys of casual chess.




2. J'adoube offers the first post in his year-end "Best of J'adoube" series.




3. This reminded me that I have let the one-year anniversary of BCC Weblog pass without a comment. Perhaps I'll have to follow J'adoube's lead at some point. For now, here are a few of the earliest posts from November 2004: Chess, Personality and Madness; The ultimate sacrifice; An engineer's dream.




4. More J'adoube -- his letter about GM Larry Evans' assertion that a school in Alabama banned chess was published in Chess Life. Here are the related blog entries: Banned! Revisited; Oak Mountain Intermediate School to GM Larry Evans: You are wrong!; Banned! Revisited Again.




5. The post-mortem on HB Global has begun: HB Foundation Foundered; The HB Challenge...; HB no more! Say it ain't so!; Maurice Ashley responds about HB Global.




6. Say hello to funkyfantom, the newest Knight Errant.




7. Other Chess Blogs discovered recently: ChessTalk (videos), Chess Cat, Glenn's Blog.