{{Short description|Chess website}} {{Update |date=June 2025 |inaccurate=y |reason= ChessCafe is active again and posting new content regularly}} '''ChessCafe.com''' is a website that publishes endgame studies, book reviews and other articles related to chess on a weekly basis. It was founded in 1996 by Hanon Russell, and is well known as a repository of articles about chess and its history.<ref>{{citation | editor-last=Kingston | editor-first=Taylor | year=2002 | title=Heroic Tales: The Best of ChessCafe.com 1996-2001 | publisher=Russell Enterprises | isbn=978-1-888690-13-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wBfugjeteR8C|last=Eade|first=James|title=Chess For Dummies|date=March 8, 2011|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9781118054512|accessdate=October 31, 2020|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RlswrRu9GAwC|last=Hartson|first=William|title=Win At Chess: Teach Yourself|date=August 27, 2010|publisher=Hachette UK|isbn=9781444131598|accessdate=October 31, 2020|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wh5LbUXlMUUC|last=Reti|first=Richard|title=Modern Ideas in Chess|date=May 18, 2010|publisher=SCB Distributors|isbn=9781888690781|accessdate=October 31, 2020|via=Google Books}}</ref>
It contains about twenty columns, each of which appears monthly. They are staggered so that about five new columns appear each Wednesday. The authors include some well-known chess players and instructors, such as Yasser Seirawan, Dan Heisman, Mark Dvoretsky, Susan Polgar, Karsten Müller, and Tim Harding. Previous notable contributors include Tony Miles, Tim Krabbe, Hans Ree, and Lev Alburt.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessjournalism.org/aw2005.htm|last=Lucas|first=Daniel|title=CJA Judging Results for June 1, 2004 through May 31, 2005|website=Chess Journalists of America|date=August 12, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051215204036/http://www.chessjournalism.org/aw2005.htm|archive-date=December 15, 2005|accessdate=October 31, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessjournalism.org/aw2006.htm|last=Tamburro|first=Pete|title=CJA Judging Results for June 1, 2005 through May 31, 2006|website=Chess Journalists of America|date=August 17, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060828164106/http://www.chessjournalism.org/aw2006.htm|archive-date=August 28, 2006|accessdate=October 31, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.chesspower.co.nz/files/time.pdf|last=Heisman|first=Dan|title=Time Management During a Chess Game|date=2009|publisher=BrainGamz|accessdate=October 31, 2020|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.chessedu.org/wp-content/uploads/why_chess-1.pdf|last=Celone|first=Jim|title=Why Chess?|date=2009|publisher=BrainGamz|accessdate=October 31, 2020|via=Google Books}}</ref>
Harding's column, "The Kibitzer", often reviews games from the 19th and early 20th centuries, and produces original analysis based on his experience playing and annotating correspondence chess. "The Kibitzer" is also the oldest running column on Chesscafe.com, having started in June 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_jw/jw_heroic_tales.html|last=Watson|first=John|title=Heroic Tales: The Best of Chesscafe.com (1996-2001)|website=Jeremy Silman|date=2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040416052719/https://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_jw/jw_heroic_tales.html|archive-date=April 16, 2004|accessdate=October 31, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gmsquare.com/Reviews/samreview9.html|last=Collins|first=Sam|title=Book Reviews|website=GrandMaster Square|accessdate=October 31, 2020}}</ref> <ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hMqqhb0f3qUC|last1=Muller|first1=Karsten|last2=Polgar|first2=Susan|title=The ChessCafe Puzzle Book 1: Test and Improve Your Tactical Vision|date=August 26, 2010|publisher=SCB Distributors|isbn=9781888690019|accessdate=October 31, 2020|via=Google Books}}</ref> ChessCafe.com was previously linked with the United States Chess Federation and operated USCF Sales until April 2009. The website also maintains archives in PDF format of all its articles from 2000 and later, and text archives of articles from previous issues. It suspended publication of new columns in May 2015. In June 2015 The site announced that the number of subscribers was too low to sustain the site and that they would go on a three-month hiatus. The last puzzle was published in 2016 and the site is now dormant.
Old articles are behind a paywall.
==Publishing== A number of books have been published under the ChessCafe brand by Russell Enterprises:
* {{citation | last = Müller| first = Karsten| authorlink = Karsten Müller | year = 2004 | title = ChessCafe Puzzle Book | publisher = Russell Enterprises | isbn= 1-88869-021-6 }} * {{citation | last = Müller| first = Karsten| authorlink = Karsten Müller | year = 2010 | title = ChessCafe Puzzle Book 3 | publisher = Russell Enterprises | isbn= 978-1-88869-066-8 }} * {{citation | last = Heisman| first = Dan| authorlink = Dan Heisman | year = 2007 | title = Back to Basics: Tactics (ChessCafe Back to Basics Chess) | publisher = Russell Enterprises | isbn= 978-1-88869-034-7 }} * {{citation | last = Francuski| first = Branislav | year = 2008 | title = Back to Basics: Fundamentals (ChessCafe Back to Basics Chess) | publisher = Russell Enterprises | isbn= 978-1-88869-042-2 }} * {{citation | last = Hansen| first = Carsten| authorlink = Carsten Hansen (chess player) | year = 2009 | title = Back to Basics: Openings (ChessCafe Back to Basics Chess) | publisher = Russell Enterprises | isbn= 978-1-88869-044-6 }}
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==External links== *{{official website|http://www.chesscafe.com}}
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