Dr. Riddle gives us his March reviews…
Read Dr. Ira Lee Riddle’s thoughts on several chess books…
As promised, here is the review on the second of our turn-based sites. As you may recall from the previous review, playing turn-based chess means you sign onto a site and challenge someone. Then you can make your move, sign off, and come back later to see if they have moved and then [...]
Inspired by a post over on the Delaware Chess Forums by Empire1 we have not one, but two sites for you to check out! Empire1 basically asked about playing correspondence chess and the best way to do that. Email was suggested but then Phil Simpkins mentioned some online places to play turn-based chess. [...]
You may remember the two ‘plays’ written by Alex Shternshain in a previous Delaware Chess Review. Well, it seems he has been taking another break from his job as an electronic engineer and instead put himself into the mind of a game piece. What does it feel like to be a pawn in [...]
My, how times have changed! The first chess book I worked through was “A Complete Chess Course” by Fred Reinfeld. I just checked www.amazon.com and … it’s still in print, descriptive notation and all! My advice is to avoid it – it is now pretty much obsolete.
How I wish I had “A [...]
This week’s review finds two wonderful chess plays. Yes, you read correctly, chess plays, as in the theater. Now these aren’t really in the theater, of course, but I could just envision the actors on stage and the laughter from the geeky chess crowd. They are not only funny but quite insightful.
So [...]
This week’s review is about Chess Tactics Art 3.0, a program based on work by Russian GM Maxim Blokh. Much like the previously reviewed Intensive Course Tactics by Renko, this software program presents you with a variety of positions to solve. The positions involve a number of tactical motifs: distraction, decoys, clearance [...]
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This week’s review is about the Fritz Technique Trainer software made by Chessbase. As many, I am often frustrated by the feeling that I am in a winning position but that I am not sure how to go about securing my victory. To often, in fact, I go about securing my [...]
The subject of just about every review I’ve written so far is that one must work to improve. And most of us are lazy, or more charitably aren’t believers in the need for work. And this leads many of us – well, me specifically – to collect more books than will ever be [...]