With a massive redesign of the ChessandPoker.com site approaching completion, I decided it was time to update the ol’ blog too. And, since I’ve been a bit lazy posting, I’m going to develop a personalized blogging schedule for myself so I’ll have plenty of ideas to write about each day. I do so well with schedules it’s amazing that I haven’t set one up for this, but with work + kids + wife + online poker + websites + I’m ready for sleep already! I’ll be covering my tournament schedule as well, which might be of some interest to those of you who also play (and may have been facing me without knowing it). I’m also going to dig through the daily news and pull out any and all gaming news that interests me, including my take on things of course. That and more, that and more :) Let’s go over some site news first to get everything up-to-date.
Following many months of testing and redesigns, we’ve finally come up with a new look for the main site. I’m still working out a few kinks to make it totally to my liking (which is a tedious process) but I hope to roll it out before my birthday in October. There will be a few changes to the site that I’ve been tossing back and forth in my head that may or may not please some of you, most notably the removal of the Blackjack and Video Poker strategy guides :( I’ve simply decided that both of these works don’t hold enough spark to be truly helpful on their own in their current form, but I might bring them back if I can get back into loving them and wanting to dig deeper into their strategy secrets. Time will tell.
The most important update, though, is the pending release of our extensive Chess and Poker guides which are currently in development and testing. I’m working on some in-depth articles covering both of our namesake games, with some amazing insights and analysis into both of them that I feel will greatly improve anyones game. I’m so excited about the release of these new articles I can’t even describe it. If you’re considering buying up lots of poker books for Christmas you may want to hold off, this stuff is that good! Well, maybe next Christmas but they will deliver…whenever I get the time to finish them!
Talk with you all soon! - James
