Every once in awhile, you come upon a performance that makes you ask, "Why do bad things happen to Chess? Hasn't it suffered enough?"

In case you haven't cringed today, here's Mike Tyson singing(?) "One Night in Bangkok" from The Hangover 2. Leave it to the mainstream media to abuse Chess even more.

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Somewhat large post here. Sorry about that.

So, in that ever-going quest to find the "perfect Chess", I've cut together a mixtape of sorts of a work-in-progress Act 1 I've been tinkering with. Figured I should share it for anyone who wants to take a listen.

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Since this link has been posted a few times on Tumblr recently, I wanted to make a post reminding visitors that they should request to join to see all of the posts. Some (awesome) posts are locked to members-only. You don't want to miss out on all of the Chess goodness!

First time poster, and first time dabbling in writing Chess fic as well. Hope it's okay to post a link to this here ( Read more... )

Over a month ago, I posted about how I was starting a wiki for Chess-- that is, like Wikipedia and the like, an online encyclopedia of articles about Chess that anyone can edit. I'm happy to share that this is basically up and running now, located here for the time being: http://www. ( Read more... )

As previewed a few months ago, the long rhyming fic is done! It's a retelling of the concert album view from the point of view of the Arbiter, who (as prompted) doesn't understand how they can think each other more important or interesting than the game. And can get a little wry about it.
I'm posting one chapter/track per day, on Ao3 and FFN, so ( Read more... )

I wrote a shortish (1200 words) pre-canon piece as a Yuletide Treat; it's about Florence and Freddie/The American's first meeting (1974 by my headcanon, for m finally-completed longer fic which I will be uploading soon!)

The English Opening on Ao3 and FFN.

You may or may not have heard that I am starting a Wiki for Chess-- meaning, like Wikipedia or TV Tropes, a collection of articles about things related to Chess that anyone can edit. The wiki is running PmWiki, which is the same type of wiki TVTropes runs on.

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Teasers:

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