Chess Events on the Agenda

Over the next few months there an unusual number of first class chess events on the agenda. First, here are a handful that are going on at this moment.

• Chess Classic Mainz, 07-27 through 08-03-2008
• British Championship, 07-27 through 08-09-2008
• FIDE Grand Prix, Sochi, Russia, 07-30 through 08-15-2008
• World Junior Chess Championship, Gaziantep, Turkey, 08-02 through 08-16-2008

Coming up we can look forward to a World Championship Match, a Women's Chess Championship, an Olympiad, and much more.

• World Women's Chess Championship, Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, 08-28 through 09-18-2008
• Grand Slam Chess Final Masters, Bilbao, Spain, 09-02 through 09-13-2008
• World Championship Match, Anand - Kramnik, Bonn, 10-14 through 11-02-2008
• European Club Cup, Kallithea, Greece, 10-16 through 10-24-2008
• World Youth Championship, Vung Tau, Vietnam, 10-19 through 10-31-2008
• 38th Chess Olympiad, Dresden, Germany, 11-12 through 11-25-2008
• World Championship Challengers Match Topalov - Kamsky, Lvov, Ukraine, 11-26 through 12-15-2008

If that doesn't satisfy your craving for top level chess, nothing will!

Via www.chessabout.com.

Experts Link Leonardo da Vinci to Chess Puzzles

Experts say the Renaissance genius, whose interests included painting, mathematics, music, engineering, anatomy and botany, may have illustrated the puzzles in a long-lost chess treatise recently recovered in the library of an aristocratic family in northern Italy.

Read the full USA Today article here.

Chess and Social Networking

It's your move

Even if you just checkmated your new friend in India or took your Russian opponent's rook, new chess Web sites like Chess.com are encouraging niche social networking. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi sat down with the site's founder to find out what has attracted more than 100,000 members in less than a year. Watch this video

via www.cnet.com

Dover Publications Sale - Classic Chess Titles

Dover Publications specializes in reprinting older publications at fantastic prices - even when they are not having a sale. I've done business with them going back to the 1970's and I highly recommend that you check out their available chess titles for some real gems.

-Rook

Now on Sale: Save up to 50% on Chess Books!
The most legendary players in history abound in the new Winter Sale titles: Fischer, Morphy, Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, and more. Plus, they'll help you improve your game with expert advice on techniques and strategies—and they're all available at up to 50% off our already famous low prices. Here are just a few of the great chess titles that are now on sale:

• Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy (Revised Edition)—Save 35%!
• Epic Battles of the Chessboard—Save 50%!
• How Good Is Your Chess?—Save 40%!
• Technique in Chess—Save 45%!

Use this link to browse Winter Sale chess books—

http://www.doverpublications.com/wintersale8