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. The way to mastership from Edward Lasker is a free downloadable ebook. It has been digitized by Project Gutenberg and can be downloaded here. The reason why many people hesitate to learn the game and to teach it to their children is that Chess has been misrepresented as a game which is very difficult to [...] In some of the previous lessons we have learned about the pin and how we could make use of a pin in order to win a piece. All these lessons started with a position in which two enemy pieces were aligned with each other. In order to create an absolute pin the opponent’s king has [...] As mentioned in the previous post we are going to need a large database of chess games. Where can be found such a database? I’ll mention some possibilities in this post. Downloading by means of ChessDB Within the Tools menu of ChessDB a “Download Games from …” option is offered to download a database of [...] In order to improve your chess game it will be better to analyze your own games and learning how you can create your own chess lessons. This may be the most important chess lessons: learning how to create your own chess material. For the creation of this chess material we will need some tools and [...] Posted on October 17th, 2007
Another site with chess lessons is Chessguru.net. ChessGuru.net focus mainly on teaching beginning and intermediate players and it does that in a series of step by step, easy to follow chess tutorials. If you don’t know anything about chess you may want to start with chess rules. You will learn here about the rules: the [...] You can find a lot of Chess lessons at this Chess Teaching site, but maybe you are looking for more. One of the sites you may be interested in is Chess Strategy. Especially when you look within the lessons category you may find some very usefull articles. To mention two recent ones: Learning from Classic [...] 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. 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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