What’s this, a name change already? The former ‘site of the week’ is now the ‘review of the week’, and after only one post! I figured why limit myself to just Internet sites when there are also all those books, programs and pieces of chess equipment out there that can be reviewed too. So off we go…
This weeks site is http://www.yenra.com/headlines/chess.html
The site contains chess news via an rss feed which you could subscribe to if you have an rss reader. But that isn’t the reason I picked it. I think it is cool because it is contains information on many chess books and has links to download the games in the book. Have you ever bought a chess book and put games or positions into your computer to analyze? Well, no need to do that if your book is on this site. So if you already have a book, let say for example, The Art of Attack in Chess by Vukovic, you can go to this site and download all the games and positions from the book. Then if you have an alternative idea or are confused about the annotation you can load a position up in Junior, Fritz, or other program and let the computer perform its magic to help you better your game. Unfortunately, the layout of the site could be better and you may have to look down a loooonnngg page or two for your book or games but you just might learn something while you read the other information there. And there is an archive link that breaks the information down into months. My advice is pay attention to the link when you click on a title from the main page – it will tell you the date you want to scroll to.
So check it out, see the games online or download them to your computer in pgn format.
Feel free to leave a comment on your opinion of the site too!
Until next time…..
Tom Fleetwood