Chess is a brutal cerebral game, and if you feel as though your human opponents aren't up to scratch, why not try out the 2Robot? This unique droid ought to be able to...

If you tried the Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta early on, you probably noticed that Games were no longer available in the IM window. With the most recent release of 9.0 Beta...

So there I was at the stroke of midnight, contemplating the four-knights opening by the dim glow of a flashlight, ears popping under the extra five pounds per square inch...

When the name Jason Calacanis comes up in conversation and he's not within earshot, something unflattering is always said about him. Ah, that Calacanis. He's blah and...

A new JibJab!  Send a JibJab Sendables® eCard Today! Yeah of course it’s about the oil and that’s all it’s about  Watching Obama...

In a bizarre example of Second Life leaking into the real world, a political assembly on Saturday led by chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov was disrupted by a flying penis....

Is one single person smarter than an enormous group of people?  Is a crowd better at making decisions than one trained expert?  Crowdchess.com is taking this...

This is a very nice chess widget which you can use to display chess problems on your website. Just copy the Javascript code and paste it in where you want to display it...

An article on chess variants with fewer draws. The most obvious modification of eliminating stalemate is proposed by several people, including me. Beyond that, by far the...

Someone asked about using Chesspark with other XMPP or Jabber accounts and I thought I would make a quick post on how to do it with livejournal. Any XMPP account will...

If you are in the San Francisco area this Saturday, there is an interesting event coming up. It is a Hip Hop Chess Federation event and I wish I could go. Notice the...

Last night http://chesspark.com released a new web interface to our XMPP based chess server. We also have a new way to get a game with a redesigned, notification based,...

Management is like fencing. Management is like swimming. Management is like… � by David Zinger Here are� 5 sports metaphors for management created by Slacker...

Etta James: Something's Got A Hold On Me + Baby What You Want Me To DoFrom Rocks The House (Argo, 1964)Jimmy Reed: Baby What You Want Me To DoFrom 7” (VJ, 1960). Also...

A new feature at chesspark is a game viewer widget. So that you can embed chess games in a blog post or web page. This game is one I recently lost (which I do a lot). Of...

A player at blind-man's-buff, and Sympathy, In common, have one striking feature: Each is, you see, A fellow feeling for a fellow creature. – John Augustus Miles,...

Photo By: metrix_feet | Blog By: Meera Sethi - American chess master William Ewart Napier mused that “of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but...

I used to be a vaguely competent chess player, and now, with my eldest child beginning to play, I’m renewing my interest in a game that gave me much happiness as a...

Rupert Murdoch may be standing pat on his bid for Newsday, because he knows that Sam Zell knows that News Corp. is probably the only plausible acquirer if the highly...

There is enough said, and written, about McKinley Morganfield aka Muddy Water s . The world isn't waiting for another Muddy compilation. Although......Today's...