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Posted on January 29th, 2011

The site has been ported to Google Sites and now uses an adapted version of the Travel Journal Template. I have added the top navigation buttons and changed the background of the sidebar. Of course I also changed the header and some of the other pictures. The goal is that this new look feels both new, but also somewhat familiar with the old site.

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Posted 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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Posted on December 22nd, 2010

I’ll hope you enjoy these days and I wish you a Happy New Year

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Posted on January 9th, 2010

We have registered the domain name ChessTeacherLessons.com and plan to use it for this site in the future. At the moment you are already able to find the main page at this location, but we have some troubles in redirecting the other pages. We’ll try to keep you informed. In the meantime you can help [...]

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Posted 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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Posted on December 21st, 2008

Picture of a chess board in a Christmas tree

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Posted on December 20th, 2008

Yesterday I checked my stats page and noticed that I was getting a lot of visitors. Most of them were referred to this site by stumbleupon. At the end of the day more than 2000 unique visitors have visited this site which is a lot more than the usual traffic. Today everything seems to be [...]

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Posted on September 19th, 2008

This is a reduced part of a beautiful chess image of which the original can be found at the site of Fantasy Art 3D Wallpapers: modern digital art, 3D artists, computer desktop backgrounds. The mentioned site contains a lot of beautiful pictures, but this one is my favorite. It illustrates the beauty of chess.

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Posted 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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Posted on July 22nd, 2007

At the moment the site has some problems, that are probably resolved right now. However these problems prevent you to navigate to the chess lessons by the normal links. Most chess lessons can still be reached by means of this chess lessons index. Update August 13, 2007 All problems have been solved. Please let me [...]

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Posted on July 15th, 2007

Every Saturday an endgame study is published at ChessVibes, selected by Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Some of these endgames are very interesting. Yesterday the 28th endgame study in this series has been published.

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Posted on January 26th, 2007

Welcome to this new site. The purpose of Chess Teaching is to make free chess instructions and exercises available to improve your chess skills. The lessons may also be usefull for other Chess Teachers. After some initial experiments with various web sites we decided to go for a blog site, because of: The rather easy [...]

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