ChessCafe.com is a website that publishes
endgame studies
In the game of chess, an endgame study, or just study, is a composed position—that is, one that has been made up rather than played in an actual game—presented as a sort of puzzle, in which the aim of the solver is to find the essentially uniq ...
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book reviews
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and other articles related to
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...
on a weekly basis. It was founded in 1996 by
Hanon Russell, and is well known as a repository of articles about chess and its history.
It contains about twenty columns, each of which appears monthly. They are staggered so that about five new columns appear each Wednesday. The authors include some well-known chess players and instructors, such as
Yasser Seirawan
Yasser Seirawan ( ar, ياسر سيروان; born March 24, 1960) is a Syrian-born American chess grandmaster and four-time United States champion. He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979. Seirawan is also a published chess author a ...
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Dan Heisman,
Mark Dvoretsky
Mark Izrailevich Dvoretsky (russian: Марк Изра́илевич Дворе́цкий; December 9, 1947 – September 26, 2016) was a Russian chess trainer, writer, and International Master.
Biography
Dvoretsky was born in Moscow in 1947. H ...
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Susan Polgar,
Karsten Müller, and
Tim Harding. Previous notable contributors include
Tony Miles,
Tim Krabbe,
Hans Ree
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, and
Lev Alburt
Lev Osipovich Alburt (born August 21, 1945) is a chess Grandmaster, writer and coach. He was born in Orenburg, Russia, and became three-time Ukrainian Champion. After defecting to the United States in 1979, he became three-time U.S. Champion. ...
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Harding's column, "The Kibitzer", often reviews games from the 19th and early 20th centuries, and produces original analysis based on his experience playing and annotating
correspondence chess
Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played through a correspondence chess server, a public internet chess forum, or email. Less commo ...
. "The Kibitzer" is also the oldest running column on Chesscafe.com, having started in June 1996.
ChessCafe.com was previously linked with the
United States Chess Federation
The United States Chess Federation (also known as US Chess or USCF) is the governing body for chess competition in the United States and represents the U.S. in FIDE, the World Chess Federation. US Chess administers the official national rating ...
and operated USCF Sales until April 2009. The website also maintains archives in
PDF format of all its articles from 2000 and later, and text archives of articles from previous issues. It suspended publication of new columns in May 2015. In June 2015 The site announced that the number of subscribers was too low to sustain the site and that they would go on a three month hiatus. The last puzzle was published in 2016 and the site is now dormant.
Old articles are behind a paywall.
Publishing
A number of books have been published under the ChessCafe brand by Russell Enterprises:
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References
External links
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Chess websites
1996 in chess
Internet properties established in 1996
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