Chess Teacher on December 28th, 2010
About a month ago version 0.8 of ChessX has been released, so the development of ChessX seems to continue. However most of the improvements are bugfixes, though the graphic interface has also been simplified for the user. Adding an engine for analysis is easier than ever, and now it has become possible to visualize other [...]
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Chess Teacher on December 22nd, 2010
Chess Teacher on October 18th, 2009
A couple of months ago and two years after the previous version ChessX has released a new version. This is version 0.6, which can be downloaded for Windows and Mac on the download section of the ChessX site. I decided to try this version and I started by saving the games of the IJ105 database [...]
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Chess Teacher on July 21st, 2009
As a kind of follow-up on the previous post I’ll have to show you this picture from Cindy Seigle. This is one of the many beautiful chess sets set up in the atrium at the West Baden Springs Hotel in Orange County, Indiana. Chess set at the West Baden Springs Hotel by cindy47452
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Chess Teacher on July 20th, 2009
Chess is often played with beautiful pieces. This is one of the reasons to start playing chess. We like the pieces and we like the game. The picture below illustrates some of this beauty. Chess by frankblacknoir
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Chess Teacher on February 26th, 2009
Tag Galaxy is a 2008 diploma thesis project by Steven Wood that enables you to browse through the galaxy of pictures by entering tags. After entering a tag related tags are shown visualized by other planets in an orbit around the “world” of selected tags. You’ll have to see it for yourself. The picture above [...]
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Chess Teacher on January 26th, 2008
In some of my previous posts I have mentioned the ChessDB chess database program, but you may also want to use one of the other free available chess databases. Scid (Shane’s Chess Information Database) was written by Shane Hudson. He started Scid in 1999, but the development stopped in 2004. December 2006 the development of [...]
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Chess Teacher on December 22nd, 2007
I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. This year a lot of chess lessons have been added to this site. You can get a quick overview by looking at the static page Chess Lessons and from each lesson it is possible to navigate to the next [...]
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Chess Teacher on February 4th, 2007
If you are looking for a place to study some difficult endgames the following may be of interest to you. Using the applet on the Knowledge4IT site all of the currently published Nalimov Tablebases can be queried online (incl. 6-men databases). On this Web Query page you are able to check some of these sometimes [...]
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