An American civilian working in Iraq gets to rekindle his love of chess. Read " The Chess Game " from Carpetbagger Iraq .

(reasonable-person?) shares his heart-warming story of overcoming an addiction to chess .

King's Gambit is back after several months of inactivity -- well worth a look.

Chessboxing and Poetry too! Playing the Dozens is more than a game of fun--it is a battle for respect. It is an exhibition of emotional stre...

Listen to Life in the Chess Lane (mp3). .... I check out my uneven trade I got a knight for a rook Am I crazy ... Naw It's called strat...

Here is VARoadstter's final poker chip design . See also " Poker Knight ."

Back in the early days of this blog I covered the topic of chess and madness repeatedly (see here , here , here and here ). Now, TIME Magaz...

Fussy Lizard completed the 7 circles . Congrats. Fatboy put his training on hold -- having to attend to real life can be such a bear. I...

Last weekend at the club, Mike Griffin and I were having one of those typical conversations about the tactics some players try to use to an...

At The Thin Line , a blogger ponders whether stalemate is the best chess analogy for Catch-22. I believe "Zugzwang" would be a b...

At A Patzer's Tale , a rant inspired by the folks at CBS who displayed their ignorance of the game again -- this time in an episode of ...

Capablanca was waiting in a train station in New York one day, with his coffee, danish, newspaper and chess set, when a man approached him....

From Not Another Word , a series of photographs of Marcel Duchamp playing chess .

Here's an early catch (although Nezha has already been there) -- let's see if Satish Talim becomes a candidate for the Errant clan.

From a piece on new USCF Scholastic Director Jerry Nash : Jerry has now relocated to the new USCF headquarters in Crossville, TN. His wife R...

Apparently the consumer demand is so strong that a game company has decided to launch a new Red Sox-Yankees chess set to compete with the e...

For this Marine, military training supports tournament success: “At our level of chess , it’s not so much preparing for tournaments, it’s be...

Sobriety Girl is stuck in a chess game: Today, life is like a chess game. Black and white squares make up the patterns of emotion. At time...

Now that the Cardinals have elected a new Pope it seems relatively safe to dive back into topics of Church and Chess. No, this is not anothe...

New Victorian offers his " best of the best " of chess literature.