Useful Sites

Contents of this page

[Books & Reviews] [Computer Chess] [Correspondence-Chess] [Education] [FIDE] [Games][History][Indices] [International-Chess-Tournaments] [Magazines][Major-Sites] [Newsgroups][Openings] [Pictures & Graphics] [Puzzles] [Search-Engines][Trivia] [Technically...(DTP,Html,MacFaq)] [Chess-Variants]

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• Chess Software and Download Index
  Perhaps you would like to Download Games, Software, Articles etc
• How to Play Internet Chess
  There are many ways to play chess on the internet.
• More Local Chess
  Here's some info on Chess in Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales
• World Chess Links
  A list of world links sorted by country

• See the History Section for a history of Chess, plus other historic information
• Noteable Chess Personalities
• FIDE laws of Chess (English) (French) : Note law changes in 1997
• More about FIDE
• A gif or text only tutorial
• Chess Notation Algebraic and Descriptive.
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Glossary from Exeter Chess Club
• Another good Glossary from the London Chess Centre
• A chess encyclopedia tho' Bill Wall's Chess Trivia is very useful.
• How to pronounce that chess word/name
• Chess Translator Chess terms in 17 languages.
• Guide for new tournament players
• Types of Tournament
• A general guide to the Swiss System
• Chess Openings have their own list now.
• Chess Informant's classification of openings, endings and combinations.
• Internet Collegiate Chess League
• For a vast array of chess info. try Bill Wall's Page.
• Polgar Chess Center - the home page of Susan Polgar - The Womens World Champion
• Chess Variants
• Bughouse

• Chapter One of books recommended by the USCF
• Ignacio Marin
• Tim Harding of Chess mail
• IM Jeremy Silman of Inside Chess
• Hanon Russell and Glenn Nudzinski from the Chess Cafe
• Bertrand's Chessbookreviews have now moved to Tim Hardings Chess Mail Site
• Recommended books from the Chess FAQ
• Randy's Revealing Reviews 'from the practical player's perspective'.
• James Thin Book Reviews
• Batsford Publications (does work - honest)
• Waterstones Chess Books
• R&D Publishing
• H3 Publications
• Dave Regis's list of Education Books
• The Chess Bookshop
• James Holwell, a chess teacher, has created a book-on-disk suitable for beginners. It's free for download.
• See also the shareware books listed below under Correspondence Chess.

• An introduction to Computer Chess
• Computer Chess Programming excellent site, with references.
• International Computer Chess Association
• Computer Chess Club
• Computer Chess: the Drosophila of AI with a section on the history of Computer Chess.
• Bill Wall's History of Computer Chess
• Computer World Champions
• Index to some useful documents from rec.games.chess.computer
• DarkThought Home Page Games and info on how Darkthought plays chess.

• Also see the Software pages from the Download index.

• The Correspondence Chess Place. John C. Knudsen's New (as of Aug 1998) CC Page, including electronic shareware books, articles, games and useful CC info.
• The International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF)
• British Correspondance Chess Association
• Irish Correspondence Chess Association page
• British Postal Chess Federation
• Scottish Correspondence Chess Association
• Canadian Correspondence Chess Association.
• Chess Mail aimed at correspondance players.
• Fernschach International
• DEUTSCHER FERNSCHACHBUND (BdF)
• The Campbell Report. Homepage of J Franklin Campbell, an American correspondence chess journalist.
• Ceremonies of the Horsemen. Journal of the International Email Chess Club.
• Ralph Marconi's homepage. Ralph Marconi is a correspondence chess journalist from Canada.

• A gif or text only tutorial to the rules of Chess
• ChessWise University Online
• Yermo Chess Academy
• Exeter's Coaching Page, a vast array of material for all standards of player
• Rashid Ziatdinov's Homepage, a very interesting site from an American/Uzbekistani International Master.
• Chess for Success
• Fun Chess Positions by John Coffery
• Planet Chess
• Jonathan Edward's Chess Pages
• Virtual Chess Coach
• Bill Wall's lessons including some of the common traps in the opening.
• Chess Archive'sBeginners Page By David Hayes
• E. Suastegui has some basic endgames for viewing with his Java script ChessTutor
• Chess Space's Education Section

  Openings have their own section

FIDE is the governing world organization of chess. It organizes world championship competitions, draws up rules of the game, awards the titles of International Grandmaster, International Master, International Woman Master, International Chess Judge etc. It was founded in 1924. Until 1946 the current world champion chose his opponent when defending his title. Since 1946, the year the Soviet Union joined, FIDE has been the main decision making body.

• FIDE Home Page
• FIDE laws of Chess (English) (French) : Note the Changes to the Rules in 1997
• The current FIDE World Ranking
• An alternative site to look up FIDE Chess Ratings
• Compare these to those by the PCA Professional Chess Association

• The University of Pittsburgh ftp site (local index) has a comprehensive database of games in various formats from Tournaments going back to 1879.
• Mark Crowthers The Week in Chess has many games, including the most recent top master games.
• Exeter Chess Club's coaching archive
• You may be interested in the Games Exchange
• HemSoft Chess Page Has a good PGN record of recent Tournaments.
• 60 Bobby Fisher Games displayed using a groovy Java script written by our very own Steve Pickles.
• If you want to see some of the top games, including the recent Kasparov v Deep Blue games, animated on your browser, try The Chess Theater by Palle Mathiasen.
• While Stephen has many games with a board image for each move.
• E. Suastegui has many games available for viewing with his Java script ChessTutor
• BookUp Corp. offer Essentia, a games database, plus a free demo with 1000games and viewer.

• Chess Space
• New in Chess
• Chesslinks Worldwide
• Chess Yahoo
• Chess links by Harris
• Essential Links to Chess
• See Also Search Engines

• Tasc Tournament Calendar
• Tournaments and Chess News from Chess Planet
• Sean Whalen's Chess Calendar
• New in Chess Events Past and Present.
• FIDE rated tournaments in the British Isles 1996-1997

• A local brief account of chess history.
• Chess Master Enclopedia is an excellent account of the history of Chess, plus some of the Chess Grandmasters.
• Members of Edinburgh University can use the Britannica Internet Guide to view their Chess Articles or their Chess Biographies
• Chess Time Line by Bill Wall, key events with dates.
• World Chess Champions Factual accounts of the world champions plus some interesting Historical Documents
• Uncrowned KingsThe games of players not given the opportunity to fight for the World Championship
• The Paul Keres Page
• The Chess Cafe A potpourri of articles, letters and essays from the days of yore
• Bill Wall's list of Chess Personalities
• US Chess Hall of Fame
• Winners of FIDE Events
• Nick Pope's Chess Archaeology Volumes 20+ can be downloaded.
• Bill Wall's List of Firsts
• For a vast array of chess info.from World Championships to the History of Chess on Stamps - see Bill Walls Page.

• Mark Crowther's The Week In Chess
• Inside Chess Magazine
• Planet Chess
• Chess Mail aimed at correspondance players.
• Russian Chess
• Chess Journalists of America (CJA)
  

• E.U. Chess Club's magazine Blitz 'n' Pieces
• ChessMaster Times
• The Times (Raymond Keene)
• East Anglian Daily Times (Kevin O'Connell)
• Washington Times Chess Column (David Sands) - 1 article
• Jon Speelman's Columns from the Observer. Available on the Batsford Website.
• Washington Post - search for chess, and here's a sample of Kavalek's chess column
• Chess Madness by Mig, courtesy of ChessBase
• Anand's Corner Grandmaster analysis from twice world championship contender Viswanathan Anand. Also courtesy of ChessBase
• Mig on Chess analysis and commentry of major chess events by Mig on The Week in Chess
• The Kibitzer (Tim Harding)
• Dutch Treat (Hans Ree)
• Chess World Magazine - Italian
• SIR-Scacchi In Rete (Chess on the Net) - new Italian magazine.
• Chess Renaissance Newsletter Archives
• Gambit - a commercial Magazine
• Australian Chess News Upto date Columns from Sun Herald & Canberra Times (Ian Rogers), The Age (Chris Depasquale), Sunday Mail (Ian Murray)
• Down the Diagonal newsletter of the Huntsville [AL] Chess Club, no longer published
• ICCA Journal
• King's File Magazine
• UPitt News Archive
• Connecticut Chess Magazine
• Virginia Chess Newsletter
• ChessBase Magazine
• Computer Chess Publications
• Lewis Stiller - Reflections on symmetry, parallel computation, and chess endgames
• The Chess Abyss An interesting article
• Sam SLoans Chess Page with lots of chess articles, many of a political nature.
• Chess Informants Home Page
• Chess Pride (chesspride@aol.com) is the only magazine dedicated to the history of gay and lesbian chessplayers.

• Internet Chess library
• University of Pittsburgh's home page
• Chess Archive
• Steve Rix's Edinburgh chess page
• The Chess Cafe
• Bill Walls Chess page

• rec.games.chess.analysis
• rec.games.chess.computer
• rec.games.chess.misc
• rec.games.chess.play-by-email
• rec.games.chess.politics
• gnu.chess
• comp.ai.games
• alt.chess.ics
• alt.chess.bdg
• rec.games.chinese-chess

• ECO Codes- very comprehensive, with search option.
• ECO Calculator
• Chess Openings - a graphical html version of the ECO database distributed with GNU Chess
• Chess Informant's classification of openings, endings and combinations.

• Many openings (by Dave Regis) with analysis
• Online Chess Openings Library - local copy of files supplied with ChessTutor, Java and Ascii
• Chess for Success openings guide
• Openings for berserk attackers (by David Flude)
• Unusal Openings with analysis by 'acummin'
• Unorthodox Openings from ChessWorks
• Openings with analysis from ChessWorks.
• Openings with analysis by Cornbelt Chess Alliance, the Vienna and Center Counter
• Alapin-French (1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Be3).
• Blackmar-Diemer Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.e4 dxe4 4.f3) has several pages from David Flude, Jyrki Heikkinen, and Tom Purser.
• Cochrane Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nxf7)
• Diemer-Duhm Gambit (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.c4)
• King's Gambit and Sicilian (by Ignacio Marin)
• Jaenisch (1.e5 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 f5; by Willem Leenen and Arman Sternau) [in Dutch]
• Scotch 4...Qh4 by Villy Isaksen
• Sicilian Dragon - Java site with sample games

• Some of the general Education pages have guidelines to the openings also.

• A few local 'icons'
• Alan Cowderoy's Site for all aspects of chess graphics. Photographs, prints, cartoons, ray tracing, paintings, drawings and much else.
• Graphics to download from Pittsburgh ftp site (local index)
• Will Friday's Chess Art
• Chess and mesh
• Internet Chess Art Gallery
• ASCII Chess Art - All the rooks, queens, kings, pawns, knights, bishops, boards that you could ever want.
• Armstrong Chess - Chess pieces in open forum hall. The scene modelled using AutoCad, and rendered using Infini-D.
• Automatic Animation of Human Motion - an animation of a human playing chess.
• Chess Hawaii Art Gallery - Humorous chess related images.
• Chess Image - A chess image by R. Fournier
• Chess Startup Screen - for the macintosh, I can't find it anymore.
• Internet Chess library: Art Gallery - View the different wings of the ICL art gallery.

• Manolis Stratakis presents some interesting puzzles;
• Exter Chess Club's Puzzles
• Vincent's List of chess problems
• Eugene Beauharnais Cook's Puzzles (1830-1915)
• Mathematical games and recreations has some interesting references to chess puzzles and the people who invented them.
• The Retrograde Analysis Corner
• GPNM-Archives
• Forslund's Chess Problems
• Cornels Problems
• 2 problems by Ian Gent, and a hint that the British Chess Problem Society will be on the Web.
• The Queens on a Chessboard problem
• A variation on the Queens on a Chess board Problem
• Index of chess problems and solutions

  Plus

• For more links and puzzles try Mario Velucchi's Page