The world-famous American Grandmaster, and one of the best all-time Chess players, Bobby Fischer has died at the age of 64 from a serious but unspecified illness in Reykjavik. While in recent years Fischer was known for his shocking activities away from the Chess board, including racist radio ramblings and wild conspiracy theories targeted [...]

After receiving several emails as to why we removed the Blackjack and Jacks or Better Video Poker strategy guides from our main site the decision was clear: bring ‘em back and make them even better than they were before! Located in the strategy guide list on our home page you can now once again select [...]

We are immensely pleased to announce the much-anticipated release of our Carcassonne strategy guide! If you’ve never heard of this game, you’ll definitely want to check it out as it covers the rules in great detail and even includes the basic strategy of the game. The game of Carcassonne is hands-down the most addictive game [...]

It’s New Years Eve and therefore time for the prerequisite listing of the ChessandPoker.com New Year’s resolutions!
Much more Content: This year we’ll be rolling out the new Chess and Poker sections, which focus entirely on our two namesake games. Along with this, there are always several in-depth strategy guides in production so stay tuned for [...]

Annette Obrestad has won “Tournament Performance of the Year” at the European Poker Awards, once again the youngest player to ever achieve that honor. The online wunderkind earned this recognition by besting a stacked field of live-action tournament pros en route to winning the inaugural WSOPE Main Event, considered by many to be one of [...]