Blogs That Used to Be Good (and might be again)
These chess blogs used to frequently titillate the reader with witty, useful or simply entertaining content, but no one really knows when they'll be updated again or if the blogger still cares about his/her followers. Bloggers who are dead (or at least dead to the chess world) are ineligible.Today we have a new entry in the above-linked collection - also in the sidebar - of (formerly?) great chess blogs: TheOnoZone's Blog at lichess.org. I've recently gotten active at the site, mostly for purposes of playing more regular online training games versus humans, and have also dipped a curious toe into the blog feed.
The post entitled "Your (Chess) Personality" was the first one to catch my eye, since the chess style/personality topic has been one examined here as well, in "Playing Styles Deconstructed". "Ono" is an excellent writer, and has a somewhat different (and much more entertaining) take on it. I was going to leave a pithy comment on that particular post, to engage on the subject, then noticed it was from 2022 and that the last blog entry was from November 2024. It's therefore been gone long enough to qualify for the (dubious?) honor of inclusion on this list.
Because chess improvement is an evergreen topic, I'd say that all of the blogs in the linked list are still worth perusing, even if Temposchlucker's is the only one currently active. If he can resurrect himself, however, perhaps there's hope for TheOnoZone's return.
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