ChessCafe.com is a website that publishes

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and other articles related to

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on a weekly basis. It was founded in 1996 by

Hanon Russell Hanon W. Russell is a lawyer, chess expert, chess book author, translator, online chess magazine publisher and chess book store operator. He maintains his office in Milford, Connecticut. Mr. Russell has been translating Russian chess literature fo ...

, and is well known as a repository of articles about chess and its history. 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 Yasser Seirawan ( ar, ياسر سيروان; born March 24, 1960) is a Syrian-born American chess grandmaster and four-time United States champion. He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979. Seirawan is also a published chess author a ...

Dan Heisman Dan Heisman (born July 8, 1950) is a United States Chess Federation National Master, author and instructor. Education Heisman graduated from Hatboro-Horsham High School in Pennsylvania as the co-valedictorian in 1968, and was elected to the scho ...

, Mark Dvoretsky, Susan Polgar,

Karsten Müller Karsten Müller (born November 23, 1970 in Hamburg, West Germany) is a German chess Grandmaster and author. He earned the Grandmaster title in 1998 and a PhD in mathematics in 2002 at the University of Hamburg. He had placed third in the 1996 Ger ...

, and Tim Harding. Previous notable contributors include

Tony Miles Anthony John Miles (23 April 1955 – 12 November 2001) was an English chess player and the first Englishman to earn the Grandmaster title. Early and personal life Miles was an only child, born 23 April 1955 in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birming ...

, Tim Krabbe, Hans Ree, and

Lev Alburt Lev Osipovich Alburt (born August 21, 1945) is a chess Grandmaster, writer and coach. He was born in Orenburg, Russia, and became three-time Ukrainian Champion. After defecting to the United States in 1979, he became three-time U.S. Champion. ...

. 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. ChessCafe.com was previously linked with the

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and operated USCF Sales until April 2009. The website also maintains archives in

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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: * * * * *

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