I thought I'd make a list of all the chess blogs I regularly read, all of which are much better than mine. So click away!
Streatham & Brixton Chess Club is a recent addition to my bloglines account, I'd been aware of it for a while, but the hilarious Scorebook Notes columns here, here and here got me hooked. Eagerly awaiting the next installments!
The British Chess Magazine blog is a collection of posts by John Saunders, the editor of the magazine, and very interesting and entertaining for us English readers. I have a similarly talented chess cat to his, although mine prefers the bishop.
Confessions of a chess novice is obviously the big daddy of the chess blogosphere, always getting the most comments, lots of interesting posts, and a good inspiration for newcomers.
Chess improvement, by DK-Transformation is one of the more zany and entertaining of the blogs, always with fascinating photography and a bordering on insane addiction to whatever he's currently interested in.
Hardcore pawnography has the most entertaining reports of tournaments he's entered, making you feel like you were there with him!
Blunderprone is always a good read, although sadly he hasn't as much time to dedicate to chess as previously.
Boylston Chess Club is a regularly updated blog, with some great posts now and again.
Castling Queen Side is one of the few chess blogs with a female author, and as such is great at communicating her ideas and feelings at the board.
The Daily Dirt is the number one news blog, and probably the most read and commented chess news blog around.
I always enjoy the posts on SonofPearl's blog, his sense of humour and humility strikes a chord with my own.
The award for most updated blog obviously goes to Susan Polgar, sadly a lot of it is just photos and copy n pastes from other sites, but definitely worth keeping up with.
A great local blog for me is that of West Nottingham Chess club, Ian Kingston does a great job of supporting chess in Nottinghamshire.
The Chess of Edwin Meyer has some entertaining posts, including his recent games in a simul tournament.
The current secretary of the Knights Errant is Samurai Chess, he has a very expressive writing style, although most of it is way over my head!
Chess Tyro has some nice posts, recently celebrating its first birthday. The Endgame Tactician has lots of informative endgame tips. Also hat-tips to SquirrelChess, Magnus Carlsen's dad, Phorku and Takchess.
Finally, the most entertaining yet totally incomprehensible blog has to be Team Tsubasa! Anyone who knows ReyFeroz on channel 101 of fics will know what I mean.
There will obviously be a lot more blogs I've yet to come across, so don't feel sad if you're not mentioned!
6 comments:
Thanks for the shout out. That's a good list. You description of DK is spot-on. It's really hard to keep track of all the chess blogs!
liquid egg product is really funny too, kind of tweedle-dum to chessloser's tweedle-dee, but it's a more general blog with a smattering of chess.
Thanks man! I can only agree with what BDK already said; great list!
Great overview! Now if only the day had 48 hours so I could read all of these great blogs AND work AND actually play chess :)
Thanks for the write up! How about you and i exchanged links? I'll be adding you to my blogroll/feedreader as we speak.
Thanks for the comments and links to other blogs. Edwin, I've added you to my list, I have trouble keeping it up to date! Dean
No more updates, i promise. ;)
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