RZA's WuChess.com: a hip-hop chess community

Wu Tang's RZA, also known as Robert Diggs, is bringing chess online with a new subscription chess site called WuChess.com. 

Here's how the site describes itself:

"WuChess.com is the worlds first online chess and Hip-Hop community. You can create and share profiles with your friends and triumph over enemies on the 64 squares. Not just against people in your neighborhood but from all over the world.   

"Play live chess with people from all over the world and get your learn on. ...

"At Wuchess.com you can log-on to watch chess clans do battle on and check out exhibition matches with Rza, other Wu-Tang members and stars from across the planet."

Though I'm acquainted with "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'," I did not realize that RZA was a chess enthusiast.

The site costs $48 a year, which doesn't seem entirely in the spirit of giving back to the community. You should at least be able to play free for a month in order to get hooked.

I am in the process of securing a guest membership and will report back from the chess chambers. 

Comments

[glgarfield]

If you didn't know that RZA and the rest of the Wu-Tang Clan were chess enthusiasts, then you were never a fan. They rap about it, talk about, feature chess in videos and GZA had a fantastic cover art on his LIQUID SWORDS cd that featured Wu-Tang characters fighting their enemies on a chessboard with art by comic book whixzDenys Cowan. How anyone who knows anything about Wu didn't know this is just strange.

[tron]

The flat out future of chess is pawnshark.com. It's already at odds with all of the conventional chess websites. Word is the chess purists want the high stakes chess movement squashed because its roots in the prisons gives chess a bad name. You should be doing a story on this, its fresh, it's new, its what the chess world has been screaming for the last ten years. Get some money in chess and stop treating chess players like charity cases.