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| Miscellaneous ! What's New in Chess Today - www.chessbase.com ! The Week in Chess - www.chesscenter.com Chessdom.com - www.chessdom.com Chess Ninja's Daily Dirt - www.chessninja.com Chess Today, the first Internet-based daily chess newspaper (paid subscription required) - www.chesstoday.net A chess portal. User-submitted information arrive in the form of RSS feeds, podcasts, embedded objects, flash video, or any scripts/apps that return content. - www.yourchess.net Women in chess, news - www.goddesschess.com Correspondence Chess News - http://ccn.correspondencechess.com Puzzles !! 23,800+ Free Tactics Puzzles on the Chess Tactics Server - http://chess.emrald.net !! The Adaptive Tactics Server (ATS) learns where your weaknesses are and gives you problems to help you in those areas: www.snufflenose.com ! Five levels of tactics puzzles from the Rybka folks, "Chess Tasks" - http://chessok.com ! 11,000+ Free Tactics Puzzles at Chess Tempo: http://chesstempo.com ! Chess.com tactics trainer - www.chess.com/tactics ! ChessKid.com tactics trainer - www.chesskid.com/tactics Chess Flashcards, usable on iPhones even - www.ichessflashcards.com Braille Chess's Puzzle Collection - www.braillechess.net Chess Training: Tactics - www.chesstactics.org WT Harvey's tactics site - www.wtharvey.com Exeter Chess Club's Tactics Tests - http://exeterchessclub.org.uk Chess Lodge: Puzzles on particular themes every week: www.chesslodge.com A site with links to more tactics puzzles - http://reluctant-messenger.com Mating and endgame practice problems - www.chess-poster.com/chess_problems Solve these problems "blindfolded" at this
site
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http://chesseye.alexander Tactics software (Convekta's Chess Tactics Art 3.0) - http://products.convekta.com
Training & Improvement !! Chessbase's Steve Lopez writes "How to improve at chess" part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (Here is the shorter version of the above - http://chessbaseusa.sectorlink.org) !! Chess training (for kids) - www.chesskids.com/kidzone (This link is for kids to use themselves, so they may learn. It's all FREE and *very* thorough.) ! If you're an instructor--or just a parent--looking for material on how to teach chess to kids, use the following link: www.chesskids.com. Be sure to also take a look at ChessKid.com. Want to hire an instructor? You can try here: http://www.chessclub.com/activities/teachers.html or here: http://www.chess.com/coaches. Basic Chess Tips - www.princeton.edu/ Chess Corner's Chess Tutorial (more good info) - www.chesscorner.com Dan Heisman's site (great for beginners) - www.danheisman.com
or http://mywebpages.comcast.net Exeter Chess Club: Chess learning materials and links - www.exeterchessclub.org.uk Coaching Links - www.exeterchessclub.org.uk How to get to 1900 Elo - www.entertainmentjourney.com ! Study 62 of "The most instructive games of chess ever played" - www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection Get chess visualization training and
increase
your calculation ability by playing blindfold chess. Solve these
problems "blindfolded" at this site -
http://chesseye.alexander Pay for online training at - www.chessmasterschool.com Games showcasing the "Greek Gift" (a bishop sacrifice on f7 or f2) - www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection ! Time Management Tips - www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman40.pdf (backup copy here) & www.chesscafe.com/archives/archives.htm#Novice%20Nook ! Have a computer analyze your game. Find out where you went wrong - www.chess.com/home/computer_analysis_demo.html
Help with Chess Annotation Learn Algebraic Notation: www.chesshouse.com/howto/How-to-Read-and-Write-Chess-Notation.asp You can also learn algebraic notation here: www.uschess.org/beginners/read Don't completely understand algebraic notation? Us the automatic annotator here: www.exeterchessclub.org.uk/annotate.html How to improve your chess annotation - www.exeterchessclub.org
Openings ! Your four opening choices - www.exeterchessclub.org.uk/Openings A quick survey of the openings - www.chesscorner.com/tutorial/openings ! Shredder Chess' Opening Database (great resource for correspondence chess) - www.shredderchess.com/online-chess/online-databases ! ChessOK's Opening Database - http://chessok.com !
ChessGames.com's Openings Explorer - www.chessgames.com !
New In Chess Opening Reference - www.newinchess.com List of Openings by Position and Name - www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/moves.htm Get the general gist of openings at chess-poster.com - www.chess-poster.com/openings Chess opening training software: www.chesspositiontrainer.com "Chess opening secrets revealed" - http://chesscoach1950.blogspot.com ! "The premier opening theory site" (yearly subscription) - www.chesspublishing.com
Endgames (& Endgame Tablebases) Common Chess Endings - www.chess-time.com Basic endgame strategy - www.chessville.com/instruction ! ChessOK's Endgame Tablebase - http://chessok.com !
Shredder Chess' Endgame Tablebase - www.shredderchess.com ! All of the currently published Nalimov Tablebases can be queried online (incl. 6-men databases) for free through this one site - www.k4it.de/index.php ! Nalimov Tablebase Server - www.lokasoft.nl !? 7-piece tablebase wins (and other very long wins) - www.gothicchess.com
Book Reviews ! Jeremy Silman's Book Reviews - www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews Chess Cafe's Book Reviews - www.chesscafe.com/archives !
John Watson's Book Reviews - www.chesscenter.com
Find Chess Books Looking for an out of print chess book? Try this guy in NY - www.fredwilsonchess.com Second-hand, rare, out-of-print chess books - www.chessbooks.co.uk
Play at Another Chess Club Kansas City Chess Club - www.kansascitychessclub.com Heart of America Chess Association - www.chessmasterbob.com Blue Valley Library Chess Club - www.freewebs.com/bvchessclub Midwest Chess Academy (scholastic) - www.midwestchess.com KC Scholastic Chess Association - www.kcchess.org Collector's Cache, 13354 College Blvd, Lenexa, KS 66210. (NE intersection of College Blvd and Pflumm) Wednesdays 4-7pm. Call 913/338-2273 KC Public Library - Main branch at 45th and Main. Sundays 1-5pm. Use Meetup.com to find other people in KC
who
want to meet for a game of chess -
http://chess.meetup.com/cities Missouri Chess Association - www.mochess.org Kansas Chess Association - www.kansaschess.org
Play at Chess Tournaments Search for over-the-board chess tournaments in your area (USA) - www.uschess.org/tla Tournaments in the Kansas City Area - Westport Chess Club, The Chess Club in the Northland, Scholastics in the Northland, Scholastics in Independence , Tournaments locally and in the Midwest Tournaments in Missouri - www.mochess.org/Tournaments.htm USCF tournaments in Missouri - www.mochess.org/Calendar.htm Tournaments in Kansas - www.kansaschess.org/htdocs/UpcomingTournaments.htm Tournament tools: Register for tournaments, watch/compare your rating to other club members, class mates, etc. - www.mychessrating.com Play Chess Against Other People Online !! Internet Chess Club (a.k.a. ICC) - www.chessclub.com - It costs about $40/year, but if you're serious about your chess, this is the place to be. ! Play live chess (bullet, blitz, regular, or long games) for free at - www.chess.com or gameknot.com Play blitz chess for free at - www.uchess.com Play live chess at FICS--completely free - www.freechess.org (If this interface isn't for you, then you can connect to FICS through www.babaschess.net .) Play live chess at PlayChess.com for free (requires their client software) - www.playchess.com ? If you want, you can also play live chess at - http://zone.msn.com/en/chess or http://games.yahoo.com/board-games Play correspondence chess online - www.chess.com or www.redhotpawn.com or www.chessworld.net or www.schemingmind.com or www.iccf.com or www.iccfus.com or www.queenalice.com or www.chessontheweb.com or www.ficgs.com or www.chesscorner.net or www.chess-knights.com or www.chessatwork.com
Play Chess Online Against a Computer Play against Rybka - http://chessok.com Play against Shredder - www.shredderchess.com/play-chess-online.html Play against the computer at Chess.com - www.chess.com/play/computer.html ChessGames.com's computer - www.chessgames.com/perl/engine Jester Chess - A very strong opponent, or a weak one: you choose the level to play against. Can play many different versions of chess, too, including an option for playing Shuffle Chess (similar to Fischerandom) called "Throne of Chaos." Thinking Machine 4 - This program, although a weak player, is equipped with a beautiful graphic display that provides a window into the computer's thinking process. WebChess - Play against the GNU Chess engine on the web. Java Chess - Another java-based chess engine. FreeArcade Chess - If you find the other chess games difficult, try this one. Its playing strength is estimated to be that of a turnip.
Correspondence Chess through the Mail International Correspondence Chess Federation (US) - www.iccfus.com International Correspondence Chess Federation - www.iccf.com US Chess Federation's Correspondence site - www.uschess.org/cc Correspondence Chess League of America - www.chessbymail.com CorrespondenceChess.com - www.correspondencechess.com The Campbell Report - www.correspondencechess.com/campbell Ralph Marconi's Correspondence Site - www.correspondencechess.com/marconi American Postal Chess Tournaments - www.correspondencechess.com/apct The Campbell Report's list of correspondence chess sites - www.correspondencechess.com
Email Chess International Email Chess Club - www.chess-iecc.org International Email Chess Group - www.iecg.org Play email chess at PostcardChess.com - www.postcardchess.com E4EC Chess Club - Server based correspondence chess games and tournaments via email. SoundKeepers.com - SoundKeepers.com is an e-mail chess site. It has printable chess boards, score book, and 4000 games. It also has a Chess Clock that people can download for their PC. THORG (Thematics Organization) - An e-mail chess club devoted entirely to thematic games. FRCEC - Fischer Random Chess email Club
Chess Variants Play other versions of chess - www.chessvariants.com About Fischer Random Chess (a.k.a. Chess960) - www.chessvariants.com Fischer Random Chess position generator - www.chessgames.com/perl/fischerandom Variant chess seems to be popular at www.schemingmind.com and www.caissa.com
General Chess Sites and Chess Directories General Chess Sites (w/lots of info) Chessville.com - www.chessville.com Chess-Poster.com - www.chess-poster.com Exeter Chess Club - www.exeterchessclub.org.uk Professor Chess - www.professorchess.com Chess Boss - www.chessboss.com
More Chess Links ! Chessopolis (probably the largest chess links site on the 'Net) www.chessopolis.com/new.htm ! Lots of links - www.worldchesslinks.net --NEW Links, sorted by category, at ChessGuide.com - www.chessguide.com ! Just Chess' list of chess links - www.justchess.biz Chess Theory's list of (many) chess links - www.chess-theory.com Links to other link sites - www.academicchess.com/contact/linkspages
Useful Links for (e-)Mail Correspondence Players Keep track of your correspondence games for free at: www.theandrew.com A freeware program for keeping track of your
games:
http://webs.ono.com/a.valverde Forms for Correspondence Chess players in Adobe PDF - www.professorchess.com/downloads
Chess Radio, Video, etc. ! Chess FM, which uses audio and video to report on chess - www.chess.fm Chess videos - www.chessvideos.tv Chess videos - www.videochess.net
Game Collections & On-line Databases ! On-line Database of Positions - www.chesslive.de ! Chess Database of 2,000,000 Games (1485 - present) - www.chesslab.com !
New In Chess - www.newinchess.com ! Over 3.5 million games at 365Chess.com - www.365chess.com Over 800,000 games; updated regularly - www.gensunasumus.com/searchajax Chess Database and Position Annotator - www.chess-database.com ! Classic Games Online - www.chessgames.com Chess-Ref.org (games are sorted by player or opening) - http://chess-ref.org ChessZone.org chess databases - www.chesszone.org/bases Free on-line database and openings explorer - www.wildchess.org Lessons in endgame strategy by Jan van Reek - www.endgame.nl
Download PGN / SCID files GAMES Lars Balzer's Site - www.chessgameslinks.lars-balzer.info ! Chess Assistant (Convekta) - www.convekta.com/databases.asp ! PGN Mentor - www.pgnmentor.com/files.html Pitt.edu - www.pitt.edu ! Chessville - www.chessville.com G. Ossimitz's Chess Page - www.uni-klu.ac.at BritBase - http://bcmchess.co.uk/britbase International Correspondence Chess games archive - http://gamesarchive.iccf.com 1.74 million games - http://top-5000.nl/pgn.htm A database (one big PGN file) of ~1.4
Million
games - ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub "Encyclopedia of chess openings" - www.chessopeningspgn.com/chess Openings - A http://cap.connx.com/a-openings, B http://cap.connx.com/b-openings C http://cap.connx.com/c-openings, D http://cap.connx.com/d-openings, E http://cap.connx.com/e-openings Supreme Chess's game collection sorted by ECO codes - www.supreme-chess.com FICS Correspondence Chess database - www.ficgs.com/databases/chess.pgn LatestChess.com archive chess games - www.latestchess.com/archiveGames.php ! Weekly posts with games from tournaments around the world - www.chesscenter.com/twic/twicp.html ! Weekly downloads of new games - http://chessok.com/?page_id=694 Annotated chess databases by Jan van Reek - www.endgame.nl/downloads.html
TABLEBASES Crafty's Endgame Tablebases - ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu ! Many endgame tablebases for download here--great resource - http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess
PUZZLES 1,001 Tactical Exercises (in PGN format) - www.chessville.com/downloads
ECO/MCO ECO downloads -
ftp://ftp.cs.kent.ac.uk/pub
Other Chess Downloads ChessBase Light 2009 - www.chessbase.com/download/cblight Winboard - http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/winboard SCID - a free chess database application - http://scid.sourceforge.net ChessDB - Another free chess database application based on SCID. It has a few more additions to SCID - http://chessdb.sourceforge.net Miscellaneous downloads at Chessville - www.chessville.com/downloads Many chess programs - www.schackportalen.nu/English More chess programs - www.chess.com/downloads Even more chess programs - www.enpassant.dk/chess/softeng.htm Chesspad PGN Viewer - www.pgn.freeservers.com or here Lots of chess help at ProfessorChess.com - www.professorchess.com/downloads
Free Chess Engines
See how all engines do vs. each other: www.computerchess.org.uk What's the best move? Use this free online engine/position analyzer - www.chesslab.com
Players' Websites, Blogs, and User Forums Players' Websites/Blogs Pictures of Chess Greats - www.chess-poster.com/great_players World Champions - www.chess-poster.com/english/world_champions.htm Susan Polgar's blog - http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com Magnus Carlsen - http://blog.magnuschess.com Chess Central's Blog - http://chesscentral.wordpress.com
Forums & Discussion Boards ! Chess Exchange's chess forums - www.chessexchange.com/forum Chess.com chess forums - www.chess.com/forum RedHotPawn.com chess forum - www.redhotpawn.com/board Talk Chess' computer chess forum - http://talkchess.com/forum St. Louis Chess forum - www.stlchess.com A web gateway to chess newsgroups - www.chessbanter.com
Chess Quotes www.exeterchessclub.org.uk/quotes www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/quotes www.chesscorner.com/quotes/chess_quotes www.chessville.com/misc/Quotes
Chess History & Classic Games Chess history - www.chesshistory.com An illustrated history of chess - http://ancientchess.com ! Historical chess photographs - www.rogerpaige.me.uk ! The "Immortal Game" Anderssen vs. Kieseritzky 1851 - www.chess.com/article/view/the-immortal-game The "Game of the (20th) Century" Byrne vs. Fischer, 1956 - www.chessbase.com; the following link has a lot of commentary on that game: www.geocities.com/lifemasteraj/byrne-fisch_1.html
Rules, Governing Bodies, & Organizations Rules & Glossary of Terms FIDE's Official Rules of Chess - www.fide.com/official/handbook.asp Rules, sorted and categorized - www.chessclub.com/resources/rules Glossary of Chess Terms - www.chess-poster.com/english/glossary.htm ChessWorld's Hitchhiker's Guide to Chess (a glossary) - www.letsplaychess.com/chessclubs/learn_glossary.asp "Chessopedia" - www.chess.com/chessoped How to pronounce those strange chess words -
www.geocities.com
Governing Bodies of Chess FIDE (World Chess Federation) - www.fide.com USCF (US Chess Federation) - www.uschess.org Other Chess Clubs/Organizations Kansas City / Midwest Chess Organizations Kansas City Chess Club - www.kansascitychessclub.com Heart of America Chess Association - www.chessmasterbob.com Midwest Chess Academy - www.midwestchess.com KC Scholastic Chess Association - www.kcchess.org Blue Valley Library Chess Club - www.freewebs.com/bvchessclub Collector's Cache, 13354 College Blvd, Lenexa, KS 66210. (NE intersection of College Blvd and Pflumm) Wednesdays 4-7pm. Call 913/338-2273 KC Public Library - Main branch at 45th and Main. Sundays 1-5pm. Use Meetup.com to find other people in KC
who
want to meet for a game of chess -
http://chess.meetup.com/cities University of Missouri Chess Club - http://students.missouri.edu/~muchess St. Louis Chess Club - www.saintlouischessclub.org Missouri Chess Association - www.mochess.org Kansas Chess Association - www.kansaschess.org Iowa State Chess Association - www.iowachess.org Nebraska State Chess Association - http://nsca.nechess.com Oklahoma Chess Association - www.ochess.org Illinois Chess Association - www.illinoischess.org Arkansas Chess Association - www.arkansaschess.org
Player Rankings & Rating Calculators Player Rankings FIDE's current list of best players - www.fide.com/ratings USCF's current list of best players - www.uschess.org/ratings/top Live, current--unofficial--ratings for players > 2700 - http://chess.liverating.org !? Top chess player rankings through history - www.chessmetrics.com FIDE historical ratings - www.mark-weeks.com/chess/ratings Fischl's Chess Statistics - http://members.aon.at/sfischl
Rating Calculators Elo Rating and Performance Calculator - http://chess.cern.ch/ratings/elocalc.en Rating Calculator - www.chess-poster.com/english/elo_calc/elo_calculator What is your Elo rating vs. winning probability? Find out here.
Miscellaneous The benefits of playing chess - www.deanofchess.com I.Q. and Chess, by Bill Wall - www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378 Cheating & Chess - www.geocities.com/Area51/Realm/8655/ENGLISH Learn about chess variants - www.chessvariants.org !! = Extraordinary site |
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