Active Players
Utut Adianto (GM) – In Bahasa Indonesia. Official site of the Indonesian GM.
Vishwanathan Anand (GM – FIDE Champion) – Fan site following the career of Super GM and all around nice guy Vishy Anand. Very comprehensive.
Vishwanathan Anand (GM – FIDE Champion) – Anand’s “official page”, which contains his schedule, but not much else.
Babakuli Annakov (GM) [Easychess] – Offers chess lessons via ICC and e-mail.
Alexander Baburin (GM) [GM Square] – GM Baburin’s site has lots of content, updated regularly. Also hosts the sites for a few other players.
Anjelina Belakovskaia (WGM) – Home page of the “U.S. Chess Queen”. Also has a page on U.S. women’s chess in general.
Chess Goddesses – Women in chess.
Colm Daly (FIDE Master) [Colm’s Chess Notes] – Former Irish champ shares his games and opinions.
Nigel Davies (GM) [Tiger Chess] – Training and articles from this British GM.
Alexei Dreev (GM) [Chess View] – Articles, training, games, and news from this talented GM.
Jaan Ehlvest (GM) – Annotated games and comments on recent tournaments from the great Estonian GM.
Javier Gil (IM) [Chessnia] – Instructive games, tests, coaching, and comments on the state of chess.
Dan Heisman (USCF National Master) – Dan’s homepage, with info on his books, articles, and chess lessons.
Vasyl Ivanchuk (GM) – Official page of the Ukrainian player.
Igor Ivanov (IM) – Official site of Utah-based IM. Offers online lessons as well as some stuff for the local community.
Anatoly Karpov (GM) – Fan site with the usual stuff including a huge Karpov game collection (over 3000 games).
Anatoly Karpov (GM) – Klub Karpov, a dubious tribute to GM Karpov by a “fan”.
Garry Kasparov (Super GM Former World Champion) – KasparovChess, megasite of GK. This site has lessons, tournament coverage, online play, columns, etc.
Alexandra Kosteniuk (WGM) – Very strong WGM.
Vladimir Kramnik (Super GM World Champion) – Fan site following the new champion. I’m sure we’ll see an “official” page from Vlad soon.
Peter Leko (GM) – Official site of this top player and David Byrne look-a-like.
Jon Levitt (GM) – Homepage of British GM and author. Has some good articles.
Alexander Morozevich (GM) [GM Square] – Moro’s official page, hosted at Baburin’s GM Square.
Alexander Morozevich (GM) [Morezevich Digest] – Andrej Sidorov keeps track of one of our most exciting players. Mostly in Russian, with some English.
Georgi Orlov (IM) [Chessplayer.com] – Has tournament reports, books, reviews, and tutorials.
Victor (Vytas) Palciauskas – Page of the 10th World Correspondence Chess Champion. Includes biographical material and articles.
Judit Polgar (GM) – Coverage of Judit’s career.
Judit Polgar (GM) [Chess Goddesses] – Judit and other women players are featured at Chess Goddesses.
Judit Polgar Fan Club (GM) – Judit Polgar may not ever be ranked #1, but she definitely has the most fan sites devoted to her.
Dave’s Shrine To Judit Polgar (GM) – Come gush over Judit, if you’re not tired of it already.
Polgar Chess Center – Susan (Zsuzsa) Polgar’s site.
Ruslan Ponomariov (GM) – The youngest GM in the world.
Lev Psakhis (GM) [GM Square] – Part of GM Square.
Valery Salov (GM) – In Spanish & English. Strange interviews and political rantings (no other way to put it) from this opinionated GM.
Eric Schiller [Chesscity] – Cardoza’s Chesscity site is the on-line home of Eric Schiller.
Jonathan Schroer (IM) – North Carolina state champ’s homepage.
Jeremy Silman (IM) – Highly respected chess author unveils his own site with book reviews, instructional material, and a whole lot of other stuff.
Kevin Spraggett (GM) – Pearls of knowledge collected for our enlightenment from GM Kevin Spraggett.
Peter Svidler (GM) – Fan page devoted to the talented Russian.
Peter Svidler (GM) – Another fan site. Svidler is gaining a following.
Sergey Tiviakov (GM) – Follow the adventures of this Russian GM.
Alex Yermolinsky (GM) – Yermo’s diary.
Rashid Ziatdinov (IM) – New page in progress. Not much here at the moment.
Famous Chess Players of the Past
David Bronstein – The life and games (mostly the games) of David Bronstein.
BobbyFischer.com – Well done tribute to Bobby Fischer, with huge gallery of tournaments and games to play through, info on FischerRandom Chess, a bio, & discussion board.
Bobby Fischer Home Page – All about Bobby.
Bobby Fischer Stuff – Recent (more or less) documents and articles regarding Bobby, as well as a growing collection of radio interviews, mostly from the Philippines. You can also send Bobby e-mail from here (apparently). Warning: In case you are unaware of Fischer’s current mental state, you should know that these interviews are full of anti-semitic hate speech.
The Game is Afoot – Mini-bios of the greats.
The Greatest Masters – Bios of Morphy and Steinitz from Ignacio Marin.
Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov – Some pointers to articles about one of the great creative players of the past.
Essential Nimzowitsch – Some thoughts on Nimzowitsch and his ideas.
On Nimzowitsch – An attempt to collect some biographical material on Aron Nimzowitsch outside of his chess career.
Riga Magician (Tal) – Short tribute of Mikhail Tal along with a couple of ancedotes.
Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch – Bio, pictures, and miscellanea of one of the great early theorists of the game.
Uncrowned Kings – Dedicated to select world-class players from the history of chess who did NOT become world champion.