It is not my intention to provide a comprehensive set of chess links, but simply to mention some interesting places that I find useful, entertaining or intellectually stimulating. (Some other places that I’ve found er stimulating are, I’m afraid, not mentioned here...)The Week In Chess: Mark Crowther’s superbly up to date site, full of games and news.
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html
John Saunders' British Chess Magazine is an excellently run site that helps keep everybody up to date about the British chess scene:
http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/I seem to have become webmaster for the Howard Staunton Society, celebrating the life and works of the Victorian genius:
A site for players keen to improve their game. Have a mental work out in the chess gym!
http://www.howardstaunton.com/
http://www.improveyourchess.com/I belong to the BCF (British Chess Federation).It also has a useful website:
http://www.bcf.org.ukTim Krabbé’s excellently written and constructed site is full of aesthetic games and problems. Strongly recommended:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/chess.html
A fascinating educational site. The net at its best! Visit abelard:
http://www.abelard.orgProbably the world’s funniest chess magazine is Jonathan Manley’s Kingpin. It is now online:
http://www.chesscenter.com/kingpin/Kingpin/A friend’s website with spot on political and social analysis, amusing quotes and other interesting content:
http://www.aoiko.net/A hard hitting journalist with strong but well researched and objective views, especially on the impending battle between western democracy and Muslim fundamentalism:
http://www.melaniephillips.com/As an example of how dynamic a chess club site can be, try Barnet Chess Club at:
http://www.gtryfon.demon.co.uk/bcc/
Malcolm Pein’s London Chess Centre, 369 Euston Road, London NW1 3AR (tel 020 7 388 2404), is a great shop to visit in real time. The virtual experience is at:
http://www.chess.co.uk/
Roberto Messa’s excellent Italian magazine Torre & Cavallo has several items of special interest to me, but in Italian:
http://www.messaggerie.it/
If you are interested in politics , the debate in the following newsgroup is lively and intelligent, sometimes even deep:
uk.politics.misc
And another newsgroup with random chess content, sometimes interesting sometimes not is:
rec.games.chess.misc
A most elegant website presenting endgame studies and other chess content in an artistic and tasteful way (click on the chess set):
http://www.jmrw.com/If you are interested in the wonderful world of chess problems, I can strongly recommend joining the British Chess Problem Society. Visiting Brian Stephenson's useful site is a good start:
You could join the British Nietzsche Society! This does not have anything much to do with chess, but Nietzsche is one of the greatest writers of all time:
http://www.bstephen.me.uk/
http://www.fns.org.uk/
A good search engine:
http://www.altavista.com/
Looking for a book? Try:
http://www.amazon.com/
The chesscafe is a very worthwhile site with many fine contributors:
http://www.chesscafe.com
Cricket is a further passion of mine.. The best online coverage is at: http://www-uk.cricket.org/
If you enjoy gambling, there are odds available at Betsson on major chess events at the following betting exchange: http://www.betsson.com/en/
Other good betting sites:
https://www.bluesq.com/bet and http://www.vcbet.com/ and http://www.bet365.com/home/ and http://www.jlevitt.dircon.co.uk/bettinglinks.htmAnd Also:
http://www.boylesports.com/ and http://www.willhill.com/ and http://www.ladbrokes.com/ and I bank with http://www.lloydstsb.comBetfair is another good betting exchange, but one that sadly does not usually cover chess events: http://www.betfair.com/
Up to date market info:
http://www.igindex.co.uk/Or a good news site:
http://www.foxnews.com/As a chessbase user I cannot forget to mention Freddy Friedel’s site:
http://www.chessbase.com
My betting links page:
Betting Links Page
My reciprocal links page:
Reciprocal Links Page