Within the last 12 months or so, chess blogging has really blossomed! So many people now have their own chess blogs. If you go to google and type “Chess Blog“, about 2,130,000 items come up. If you type “Chess Blogs“, about 1,760,000 items come up! It is a new age of communication, especially in chess! Welcome to the 21st century!
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
So what are your favorite blogs?
Pls. consider this one of your top stories for 2006.
Responses to Chess blogs are found already with chess blog …
Chess blog is for English language. If you type Echecs blog, Schach Blog, Ajedrez blog, Schacchi blog … 🙂
There are many good chess blogs out there, one of the most popular is the Boylston Chess Club Weblog which also has an extensive and up-to-date list of chess blogs.
Personally, I really enjoy the blogs of the “normal” chess players who struggle to improve their play because I can identify with them (I am running one myself). I follow about 40 of them thanks to the widespread availability of RSS feeds.
I know that picture. It is “The Chess player of Maelzel”, an interesting Edgar allan Poe “story”, isnt it?
An interesting Poe story. Actualy, a true story : the chess machine (or the man inside the device )existed in fact in the real life, at the nineteenth century.
I know what you mean.
You want us to google to see that you are on top of the list when “chess blogs” are searched.
Enough.
I’m amazed that there are so many chess blogs.
I have just started a general Blog – will try to put up at least one of my chess games per month –
Blog are boring.
At least…, mine is. 🙂
The sole purpose of very won my chess blog is to help me fall asleep. It’s as boring as hell. LOL
Don’t confuse the number of Google hits with the number of chess blogs. Many of the pages Google is listing probably don’t even have the two words next to each other.
I would estimate that there are about 250-350 active chess blogs (where active = at least one post in the last 30 days).
“Don’t confuse the number of Google hits with the number of chess blogs.”
I believe Susan more than you.
“I believe Susan more than you.”
Then I’m sorry to say that you would be wrong. As a test, go to say page 30 of the Google results for chess blogs and randomly click on one of the listings. Odds are it will not be a chess blog.
DG is correct. Thank you DG.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
Why so many hits? That is because when you search for “chess blog” or “chess blogs” you get responses for “chess”, “blog”, “chess blog”, and “chess”, “blogs”, and “chess blogs”, respectively.
The number of hits on the generic words “blog” or “blogs” are the vast majority of hits.