Evans began his career in chess journalism during the 1960s, helping to found the "American Chess Quarterly", which ran from 1961 to 1965. He was an editor of "Chess Digest" during the 1960s and 1970s. For over thirty years, until 2006, he wrote a question-and-answer column for "Chess Life", the official publication of the United States Chess Federation (USCF), and has also written for Chess Life Online. His weekly chess column, "Evans on Chess", has appeared in more than fifty separate newspapers throughout the United States. He also wrote a column for the World Chess Network.