A couple of months ago I shared the story of former BCC President Bryan Clark's metamorphosis into a professional poker player. Here is...

Several chess bloggers, because of their chess exploits elsewhere, come to the blogosphere with built in cache and name recognition. GMs Pol...

A couple of new links from around the world: First, a new Knight from Melbourne, Australia -- JavaManIssa . While he has only gotten serious...

Robert offers a short review of "The Chess Artist" by J.C. Hallman : I read J.C. Hallman's "The Chess Artist", a g...

From " Chessboard artisans struggle to survive " on NDTV.com: Artisans in Amritsar make their livelihood by chiseling wood pieces ...

GM Susan Polgar has joined the blogosphere!

Howard Goldowsky e-mailed me with details about some of his current writing projects . While the actual articles will be published elsewher...

From " Stalemate " on Anything *wise* under the sun : I hate the game of blitz not because I always lose, but it is an insult to c...

Chase Cunningham, 14, will be heading off to Ottawa on the May long weekend for his second national youth chess competition and he will be t...

Check out the pants on the guy to the right.

There must undoubtedly be much anticipation in the chess community for this week's HB Global Chess Challenge . But for Daniel Tapia at A...

Today I did something that I have not been able to do in 15 years of tournament play, slightly more than 100 official tournaments. Today I b...

In NEW YORK Magazine Next Week ... Mr. Times and His Knights of the Chess Board by Mark Jacobson Can one streetwise coach and a virtual Uni...

The Burlington (Iowa) Public Library is planning to install a giant outdoor chess set. While you still have to wait a bit before you can pla...

Hey everyone, In an effort to keep this nice blog going, I am going to pitch in my own efforts here. Many of you may remember that I recentl...

Today, BCC Weblog reaches its six month anniversary . It seems an appropriate time to assess the project and its future. The title of this ...

From NothinButDaBlues.com: Some may argue that the history of blues is one of musicians, regions, and movements rather than something so bus...

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Aven Piramide encounters two groups of people in the Philippines -- "guso" farmers and chess players. He thinks better of the for...

Phil Taylor at AAAA Fantasy Sports describes "the ... Oakland [A's] offense [as] scoring less than a chess club member at the pro...