Mig Greengard’s Chess Ninja “Because losing sucks”.

A one stop shop for all you chess news needs:
http://chess.alltop.com/

Checkers has been solved. Does the same fate await chess? What is meant by “solved” anyway? See what Wikipedia has to say:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved_game

Chess icons, wallpapers and other chess related eye candy.
http://www.virtualpieces.net/home

Do you know what a “macheeide” is? Emanuel Lasker was the world chess champion from 1894 until 1921. He wrote a treatise on the philosophy of struggle in which he defined a macheeide as a theoretical being defined as “the perfect competitor”. What happens when macheeide meets macheeide? All you ever wanted to know about Lasker.

En passant, blunders are not always bad! Sometimes one makes moves which are much stronger than one realised at the time. This works especially well against very strong players who can usually see much more than you can. May all your blunders be of this reverse variety!