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A beautiful article Remembering Tal by chessbibliophile includes some impressive pictures and lots of interesting links about the Riga Magician.

Thanks it is good to read about players. I am sorry that I have been unable to contribute much, but I have not read that many good articles. It helps your tactics though to look at the famous combinational games of such players.

Here is an article called The Art of Stealing, which you might find interesting. I did and very entertaining too.

Some top ranking tournament news.

Thank you for this link! Very interesting!

Here's an excellent Battering Ram article by GM vbhat.

Now I shall make an exception and recommend The New York Times Chess Blog "Gambit" and its fresh article about Magnus Carlsen:

http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/fresh-from-his-victory-in-china-carlsen-looks-ahead/  

As you may notice Carlsen is working on the Scotch too.

As we are looking forward to the Tal Memorial tournament in Moscow from Nov. 5 to 14., here's another interesting article of the Riga Magician by NM GreenLaser.

Chessopedia article on Mathematics and chess is fun and rewarding, too.

Especially 'cause of comments like:

"Math is like love - a simple idea, but it can get complicated."

and

"In theory, chess can be cracked.  Why would we want that?  The game would die that day."

I just wish I could write a story like this, perhaps influenced by Kasparov instead. Thank you OBIT.

Hehehehe............................................that's amusing...great psychology..

Some top level news available here.

I think that Carlsen maybe a future champion hehe...but then again, I reckon that I could take him ;)

WGM Natalia Pogonina answers readers' questions and writes about Getting Better in Chess.

One of my favorite bloggers on chess.com is Dozy. Here's one of his posts from last Summer.

Another good one is Making Every Move Count by spassky.

This is interesting theory on chess and of Perfect Play and has raised some discussion.