The new world of Chess Blogging is amazing! Thanks to my friend Amy, I learned what blogging is all about. In my opinion, it is so great that chess fans / enthusiasts from around the world could communicate and share information with each other instantly! Unfortunately, there is a downside to it. There is no way to really control strange and fake postings. I personally have been a victim of if but overall I think it is great!
Below is the list of 60 chess blogging sites according to Blog Shares. 
1: Susan Polgar
2: Boylston Chess Club Weblog
3: Satish Talim’s Chess Blog
4: Chess improvement by effort (hatchoe)
5: The Daily Dirt Chess Blog
6: Confessions of a chess novice
7: In Honor Of Nezhmetdinov
8: Dave’s Chess Weblog
9: MouseTrapper
10: Takchess Chess Improvement
11: An Experiment in Rapid Chess Improvement
12: Alabama Chess News
13: Tactics Tactics Tactics??
14: Self Flagellation to the Goddess Caissa
15: The Chess Mind
16: J’adoube
17: The Chess Wanderer
18: King of the Spill
19: The Maza Path to Chess Mastery
20: Patzer’s Mind
21: Chess Training for Tactical Improvement
22: Improve Your Chess (or Die Trying)
23: ChessNonsense
24: Adventures in Georgia Tournament Chess
25: Pomaranch Captain
26: To drag out of the marsh the hippopotamus!
27: 65th Square
28: Pawn in the Game
29: Dennis M’s Chess Site
30: Anatomy of Melancholy
31: Der Alter Goniff
32: The Kenilworthian
33: A patzer’s quest…to a distant paradise
34: Chess Pundit
35: Chess (about.com)
36: King’s Gambit
37: Chess (Chess_Underground)
38: ?????????????? ?????? (chathurangam.blogspot.com)
39: The Chess Circuit
40: The Chess House
41: OnlineChess.ca Weblog
42: Views of a Patzer!
43: ChessAssistance.com
44: Chess (Alberto Dominguez)
45: India Chess
46: CapaKaspa
47: Chess Collector
48: Chess Obsession
49: Jim Eade’s Chess Journal
50: Chess (chessKIDS academy)
51: Delaware Chess Weblog
52: GilaChess
53: C’s Chess
54: Andrew Ooi -Malaysia Blog
55: Art of Chess
56: Sjakkforum
57: PlayChess diary
58: Vito’s Return to Chess Activity Blog
59: Echecs & blog
60: Paso Robles Chess Club
Thanks for the listing Susan. I really enjoy your blog. Keep it up!
Martin
Don’t pay attention to those idiots. Most of us are normal 🙂
Mary
Hey!
Great blog. Good news that some of you chess stars are getting involved in the blog world. I’ve just attempted to blog about my first chess game of the season (a laughable tragedy) and I’ve linked to a Java board which means people can play along with my annotations.
Perhaps you’d be interested in posting more of your own games in the same format … as my games are only fun to play through if you want to remind yourself that there are some really crap players in the world.
All the best,
Chris
Hi Chris. Perhaps you can show me how to post the games. I don’t know how to do it.
Thanks!
Susan Polgar
http://www.SusanPolgar.com
http://www.PolgarChess.com
Yea, well real easy actually.
I don’t have chessbase, only a ‘Fritz family’ playing programme (Shredder). But all I need to do is:
1) Save the game I want to annotate in a chessbase format file (I seem to remember pgn databases didn’t work so well) and, of course, make the desired text and variation annotations.
2) Then I go to the drop down menus at the top, and at the very left is (I think the English is) ‘File’. Then ‘Print’ and ‘Publish Game on Web’ (or something like that, I’m translating from the German). The dialogue box that then appears can all be ignored apart from the last tab: ‘publish’. Put your server details in, and hit OK!
I’m guessing that all of that will not be news to you. Perhaps the problem is that you are not sure what your server details are. If so, then if, for example, you want to publish a game on http://www.SusanPolgar.com, then (just to give you an idea of what to put in):
a. server address will likely be http://ftp.susanpolgar.com
b. sublist (German: Unterverzeichnis – the one under the server address) is where you wish to store the games (e.g. /homepage/published_games/)
c. The next two boxes are for your account name and password
I hope this helps. It would be great if you did manage to publish some of your games on the web like this, as it makes following annotations and playing though games so much easier, and I think more enjoyable. And so if you still have any problems, do ask someone to show you how to do it.
All the best,
Chris
Thanks Chris. I’ll see what I can do.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
http://www.SusanPolgar.com
Way cool! So many sites to check out! Thanks!
There are even more chess blogs than are listed here that you can check out. Through the sidebar of
Boylston Chess Club Weblog you can access well over 100 chess blogs. In addition, the Kenilworth Chess Club has a great listing with descriptions of each.
Thanks dg!
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
http://www.SusanPolgar.com
Unfortunately, there is a downside to it. There is no way to really control strange and fake postings. I personally have been a victim of if but overall I think it is great!
All I read on this board is “You so are great” so I wonder which comments you find strange and fake. Please don’t tell me you find yourself a victim of my messages.
And why do you say there is no way to control “strange and fake postings”? Isn’t deleting “strange and fake postings” enough control for you?
Some people have tried to use my name of my business manager’s name to post things on other blog sites. I can’t control that. Fortunately, it is usually very easy to detect a fake posting.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
Oh, now I get it!
I bet sweet Mary also misunderstood you 🙂
Best regards,
Peter van der Hoog
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