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Those Personal Sites & Blogs that are able to maintain good quality posts and update on a regular basis deserve to be advertised and praised. This section shall showcase the blogs that I find informative, timely, and worthwhile to visit week after week. There is admittedly a grey area in determining whether a site qualifies as a blog or some other kind of site with frequent updates. For the purpose of these reviews I intend to focus on personal sites, maintained by a single person (or a couple friends) and not affiliated with a business or larger venture. For example, while ChessVibes started out as a personal blog, and would certainly qualify as a high quality site, it has grown into a full-fledged chess news portal with over a dozen contributors. The sites mentioned here may aspire to reach those kind of pageviews and notoriety, but for now they fill the niche of an individual sharing their passion for chess. And we are better off for it.
The Kenilworthian (reviewed 14/09/2010)
Say you are
unhappy with your opening repertoire, but you don't feel like forking over
any more money for books that will just collect dust on your shelves. You
want to get an idea of what kind of positions you'll run into to see if it
suits your style, before you purchase the latest 6 hour DVD filled with
reams of variations you can never remember anyway. Wouldn't it be nice if someone went through the trouble of collating all the free information on a particular opening available on the internet, and presented it to you in a friendly format? You are in luck, because Michael Goeller, proprietor of The Kenilworthian, has done just that, for what seems like every opening system under the sun. Most recently he provided a plethora of resources on the King's Indian, and he's done the same for the Smith-Morra Gambit, Caro-Kann (Fantasy variation), and even offered a full 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 repertoire. And there's plenty more. While the site does not currently offer a search feature, you can easily search the blog through Google by appending "site:http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com" to your search terms. For example, doing this while looking for "Sicilian" turned up a wonderful Sicilian Dragon resource. Archives go back to 2005, so you are sure to find something that interests you.
He also shares
his insights on a wide range of chess-related subjects. From 2007 is an
interesting essay on
Chess and Evolutionary Theory.
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