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When I started this chess blog three years ago, it was the first chess blog on Substack. Today there’s something like 28 chess blogs on Substack, but this one is unique. Most of the other blogs have opinions, and usually some fairly trivial chess problem with a simple tactical solution. Clearly, my competitors are aiming at the lowest-common denominator.
You won’t find that here. This chess column (I hate the word “blog”) is more of an online chess magazine than a smattering of lowly chess content. You can find here content you can’t find anywhere else. A new reader recently sent this comment:
Your content is excellent. What you publish you will never see in Chess Life.
Considering my scorching criticism of U.S. Chess Federation, that’s not surprising. But it’s more than that. Consider this:
*You can’t find anything about shatranj on other chess sites;
*You can’t find English Descriptive anywhere else;
*You can’t find readable chess fiction, period, anywhere;
*You don’t find surprise openings like you do here;
*You won’t find anyone standing up to the bullies in the chess world.
Plus you won’t find the sheer quantity you find here. I’m on track to hit 1,600 posts this year. That’s hundreds of games, endgames, tactics, problems, history, fiction, and whatever else hits my fancy. And it is all the work of only one man!
I ask you to subscribe. Not only will you get gobs of great reading every day, there are over 3,000 posts you can mine in the archive. Sure, lots of people wrote up Bobby Fischer’s victory march of 1972; but how many made the comparison to Pal Benko’s Near Miss in 1962? Only here, gentle reader, only here.
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