Practicing tactics is an extremely important part of training to be a better chess player. These mostly occur in the middle game when patzers like myself wonder what just happened to our position and/or our pieces! The ability to quickly recognize tactical opportunities will greatly improve your game and your rating. As [...]
This week’s site comes from the London Chess Center and has a wealth of information and links for the chess enthusiast. The main site is found at http://www.chesscenter.com/ but the specific part of the site I want to talk about is called The Week in Chess (TWIC). TWIC can be linked to directly [...]
Alas, my favorite online chess store, www.chessdiscounters.com, has virtually gone out of business. That place had some incredibly good deals on chess software and equipment - which is, I suppose, probably why they didn’t last. I say ‘virtually’ because you can still visit their site and buy chess books but that is all [...]
I wanted to give you all a heads up on a limited-time opportunity to get some good deals on random chess stuff. You will understand why I say random chess stuff when you look at the site. The USCF is trying to clear out one of its warehouses and is offering merchandise at, [...]
We haven’t promoted part of our site for at least a month now so I though it was time to discuss a new feature here at Delawarechess.org. We now offer a discussion forum to share your thoughts and opinions and ask questions regarding clubs, tournaments, rules or just about anything else. You [...]
Many people wonder what chess software they should buy to play against and learn from their computer. There are various titles out there but for someone really interested in learning and playing chess it basically comes down to two programs: Chessmaster and, well, one of the Chessbase family of programs (Fritz, Junior, Shredder). [...]
Here is a good site for the FIDE rules of chess. I would also include the USCF rules but I don’t think they are online anywhere. If anyone knows where I can find them online please let me know.
The site is http://www.kemmunet.net.mt/chessmalta/fidelaws/index.html which comes from the actual FIDE site of http://www.fide.com/official/handbook.asp?level=EE101.
So if you [...]
Happy New Year to all!
This week’s review involves a site where you can search a huge online database of games by player names, ratings, locations, dates, eco codes and more. There are over 2 million games in the database and it seems to be kept nicely up to date. For example, I found [...]
There doesn’t seem to be a plethora of chess tournament software on the market. It is ashame, really, since competition makes for better software. As best I can tell, the big money contenders are SwissSys and WinTD. I have never used either of these packages since they cost about $100 each. [...]
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. [...]