Categories

Chess History Center - Service center for serious chess historians, clearinghouse of research requests and index to web resources.

Goddess Chess - Classical chess history, exploring its multidimensionality and featuring prominent women in chess.

Chess Archeology - Includes photos and articles about chess and its history.

ChessDryad - Devoted to the history of California chess. Includes thousands of games for download, articles, and photographs.

US Chess History - Articles by the US Chess Hall of Fame about the history of chess in the United States.

The Chess Network - Everything you need to know to play chess.

History Of Chess - Dr. Victor Keats is a bibliophile of Hebrew and other antiquarian chess books. Includes reviews, links, and purchase information.

Sarah's Serendipitous Chess Page - Includes history, games, pictures, and links.

Chess Tournament and Match History - A timeline of major matches and tournaments in chess history with crosstables and games in pgn format for free download. Lists of world records.

Traditional Games - Dedicated to numerous traditional board games in the chess family.

Computer Chess - Information about the Rebel chess program. Also contains a section on chess programming and theory.

Napoleon Chess Sets - Features pieces of historic battles.

World Chess Championship - World Chess Network has posted an article by former Chess Life editor Larry Parr on the history of the World Chess Championship

Chess Notes - There is no doubt that the most meticulous chess historian operating today is Edward Winter. This is a link to his column at Hanon Russell's Chess Cafe.

Nebraska Chess History - A site devoted to the history of chess in Nebraska, going back to 1887.

Chesmayne - Raymon Reid's history of chess

Chessmill - SE Wisconsin Chess History - The history section of a site devoted to chess in Wisconsin.

On The Origin Of Chess - A group of articles with a variety of views regarding the origin or chess.

OlimpBase - The history of the chess Olympiads. Including articles, results, statistics, player profiles, a FAQ and a newsletter.