Battle Games

Scott McCloud recounts his childhood and adult addiction to the world of grids, knights, and checkmates.

Weblog for fans by chess fan Dennis Monokroussos. Plenty of discussion about positions and people.

Personal fan site features articles and pictures. Includes a comparison with chess and go.

Discussions about openings, news, history and other chess related topics.

Specialty site devoted to chess players who enjoy playing various opening gambits. Features email correspondence play in gambit-theme tournaments, articles, and analysis.

Offers online chess lessons a three different levels.

Numerous biographical and historical articles about chess, with a partial focus on female players.

Chess news, lessons, book reviews, puzzles, software, and evaluation tests.

A chess grandmaster and professional chess-player. Features news clippings and business related information.

Offers Montreux A multi-featured graphical chess game viewer. It understands PGN and other game formats. It is an applet which can easily be integrated on web pages.

Organizes chess tournaments across America, from California to New York.

Held by the British Columbia Chess Federation, Canada, every year since 1976.

Provides event information and news.

Offers a listing with detailed information about various chess tournaments around the world completed with a tournament history and links to chess videos.

Commercial magazine with chess news, articles, and game analyzations.

Chess lessons and quizzes for kids including a resource center for parents and teachers.

Includes move animations detailing the rules of chess, chess related wallpaper, animated games, and puzzles.

Blog providing a collection of basic chess tutorials and articles.

Interactive site, members can contribute and solve problems [Requires Java].

Features lessons, an opening and endgame library along with many educational fully annotated games. Provided by the Huntsville Chess Club.

Official site, includes biography and information about upcoming events.

Italian chess philatelic page.

A free chess database program for Windows 95 and NT. Includes download, change log, and information on how to use in conjunction with Crafty.

Swiss program designed to manage pairing. Includes screenshots, downloads, and documentation.

Pairing software for swiss system and round robin tournaments.

An open-source pairing program. Offers source downloads.

A program for Swiss and round robin tournaments - pairing, rating, and reporting. Specifically designed for the BCF tournaments.

Bughouse in java, for beginners.

Information about bughouse and bughouse gatherings in Europe.

Has new pieces and movements. Includes rules, general information, purchasing, and tournaments.

Ratings, clubs, news, results and a game database.

Contains news, champions, database, articles, and reports.

To serve the community by raising new generations with the most acute, systematic, perceptive, logical and national minds of their times by teaching chess.

Details of events held, games played and other details for those looking for an active Victorian chess club.

Chess problems, tutorials, and an email chess directory.

Marietta, Georgia based Chess Place offering free weekly chess club, along with online chess and puzzles.

Provides .PGN games, crosstable, and key game positions from this FIDE match.

News, Grappenhall Chess Club, events diary, member profiles, puzzles, travel directions, entry forms, results, and a guestbook.

London. Includes profile, events, fixtures, membership application form, annotated games, and an archive.

Calendar of events, grading list, results, news, and Essex Junior Online Championship details.

Chess club in Dundee. Competes in local and national competition. Wide range of playing skills.

Offers group information, event and rating listings.

Registration and tournament information, ratings, and local chess news.