It is always a delight to watch Amber chess tournament. They have a simple nice website with all the information needed easily accessible. If you go to the home page you will get the day’s results. If you click on the Games section you will get a link to the live games. The page which has the applet with live games also does not show any other distracting images. But I wish it was accessible from the front page with one click. They have added twitter and audio commentary this time. Click on each of the sections Scores, Schedule etc. you get exactly what you expect, simple and clean. You might think what is the big deal. But it is always a pain to try to watch games from any other big chess tournament. I don’t know how they can make a mess out of displaying 64 squares and simple 1-0 or 0.5 scores.

Amber must be very enjoyable for the players also. They can play without worrying about their ratings and for a good prize money. And of course you will get to see the occasional human side of these giants by some rare blunders.