Good Blogs Gone

An advantage of following blogs on Blogger.com is that the list of blogs is automatically available under your profile. My blog list, for example, is here: Blogger: User Profile: Mark Weeks. This reference makes it easy to remove blogs which are no longer available or haven't been updated in a long time. You still have to step through the links, but that's done easily enough. For the record, here are a few former favorites that I deleted or considered deleting.

• The Chess Mind, 'connection has timed out'; it's now at another address: The Chess Mind Blog.
  
• Tom Brown's Chess Blog, 'not found'; a real pity, because this had some very original material.
  
• Chess Safari Archives, last updated November 2008.
  
• Rook House Chess Blog, last updated May 2009.
  
• ICC Chess.FM, last updated October 2009, but I'll keep it for a while longer; it's Macauley Peterson after all.
  
• ALCHEssMIST, last updated November 2009.
  
• US Chess Discussion, last updated December 2009.
  
• hardcore pawnography, last updated December 2009, but I'll give it more time because it's updated haphazardly and can be excellent.
  
• Magnus Carlsen, last updated January 2010, but points to its successor Arctic Securities ASA - Magnus Carlsen - Blog. For obvious reasons, both are worth keeping.
  
• The Chess Parrot, last updated January 2010.
  
• BCMchess, last updated January 2010, but the BCM gets the benefit of the doubt: keep.

To make up for those, I added several new blogs that came to my attention in the last few weeks.