What is the best chess website . . . . and why?
What is your criteria? What are you looking for in a chess website?
For finding USCF ratings, nothing beats uschess.org! :mrgreen:
- Enrique
Brown nose! LOL.
No, seriously . . . . exclude USCF. Use your own criteria. What is your favorite and why?
I like chesscafe.com/ . It seems more trouble than it is worth to try to describe why. Just go there and see for yourself if there is anything there that interests you.
It does appear to be a good commercial chess website.
Any other nominations? 
As personal blogs go, these are the ones I visit most often:
kenilworthian.blogspot.com/ (also check out the Articles Index on the right, lots of good links there)
thechessmind.net/
streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.com/
Why do I like them? Relatively frequent posts with informative and interesting chess content.
For more ‘commercial’ sites, these are hard to beat (I also second Chess Cafe):
chessvibes.com/
chessbase.com/
theweekinchess.com/
The forum at chesspublishing.com can satisfy those cursed with opening obsessions (like me):
chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl
The best place to see games live (just ignore the comments):
Game collections:
Thank you. I’ll look at these closely.
Anyone else?
One thing that particularly interests me is a collection of reviews of chess products. chessvibes.com/reviews also has some. I would be interested to know about other places to look for such things.
I too have a blog which discusses chess among other things:
My blog Memoirs was the basis for the Faces article on page 9. I call myself a “Forrest Gump” for being near “the ground floor” for chess related things like algebraic notation, round robin theory (now transcribed to javascript pages), and computer programs playing the game. Last but not least was my wife’s contact with Bobby Fischer as a dental assistant.
I learned the game at grade 5, not age 5. And I am seldom surprized at what I find in a box of chocolates.
Thank you. I’ll look at these closely.
The cats playing chess is a nice touch.
Thanks. I thought it was purrfect.
Well, I’m a little partial but you might want to look at: mccorkles.org/Chess.htm