From Dimitar Naydenov, Press Center of M-Tel Masters

The international chess and football federations are firm in their statements that the game Levski – Chess United will be replayed on 13 May at 12:30 local time. This became clear after official announcements from the two organizations.

On 15 May last year the chess players lost, but they submitted a letter of complaint right after the last

We all know how Armenian and Azeri journalists tend to use chess to “claim victories” over each other. Here enters Macedonia/FYROM:

At the European Chess Championship in Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Macedonian chess players continued their dominance over our southern neighbour.

International master Vanco Stamenkov and Fide Master Dejan Dinev beat Konstantinos Kokolijas and Efstratios Fradatis of Greece,

Many women, when given a choice, prefer to compete in tournaments segregated by sex. Not so for Marie Sebag of France.

IM Mark Ginsburg analysed games from 2008 Dos Hermanas. There is another interesting post about the Manhattan Chess Club, with all copyrights reserved. The timeline is interesting, but nothing more, why would anyone bother to steal the text.

Michael Goeller of The Kenilworthian wrote a fantastic review of Joel Benjamin’s “American Grandmaster”

Kevin from the RookHouse blog is wondering if Bobby

Your question about Internet versus face-to-face lessons is especially meaningful in today’s chess environment. The Internet Chess Club (Editor’s Note: The Internet Chess Club’s sister service, World Chess Live (WCL) has recently partnered with the USCF, and now offers free six-month memberships to USCF members.) has excellent tools for chessboard communication and Skype eliminates the expense