Chess Blogs, Chess Clocks and the Law, Synergies

We were looking for something....and found that
the Kenilworth Chess Club has a page with descriptions of and links to chess blogs.

Magnifichess is mentioned there and at the Boylston Chess Club Web Log as a pioneer chess blog. We regret, however, not having since then had much time to play more chess and do more chess blogging, an online art which of course has developed greatly in the interim, so take a look at those links.

We mention the Boylston Chess Club Web Log because one of their postings led to one of my postings at LawPundit, and that particular posting was chosen to be featured in the just published ebook BlawgWorld 2007, as I explain here, which will go out to 0ver 50,000 people in the legal field. I wonder how many of them are chess players?

It is this interlocking synergistic element which makes the internet so fascinating to this writer, because it opens up combinations, much as in the game of chess, which arise in the course of playing a match (or writing a blog) and which can not be foreseen in advance.

I also found out, for example, at a posting of the MMU Melaka Chess Club Blog, that chess can make people smarter. As an educator myself, it is an intriguing possibility to suggest to elementary and secondary schools that chess be made an important part of the curriculum in order to improve student thinking abilities.

Garry Kasparov honored by Time Magazine

Garry Kasparov in the category of "heroes and pioneers" as a "chess player and politician" made Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influental people.

See
ChessBase News
Kasparov Chess Foundation
ON Deadline - USA Today
TheAge.com.au
Mida's chess corner
HabbOMG Forum
Daily Star Egypt
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Chessdom Website Started

A useful and nicely done new chess website has been started at Chessdom.

Goran Urosevic, the editor of Chessdom, sent us the following description of the site:

"- The mission of Chessdom is to cover all aspects of the chess game. We truly believe that Internet is for chess what television is for soccer. It is the element that can revolutionize the game, bring more fans, and with that, more sponsors.
- For years, various chess organizations have been trying to create large scale tournaments and yet players receive relatively low prize fund. The main reason is that chess lacks adequate global coverage. We hope Chessdom and its more than 20 sections will help chess eliminate the mentioned problems and will bring the game to a higher level. "