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. [...]
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On January 12, 2005, Newark Charter School’s chess club hosted Centreville School’s chess team for an after school event. Centreville braved the extremely foggy conditions to travel down to Newark to play chess. Both groups of players (approximately 21) enjoyed meeting each other and playing a few rounds of chess. It was [...]
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Colette Trouve, the top-rated player in the tournament, won the inaugural 2005 City of Wilmington Chess Championship with a score of 3.5/4. Her only “blemish” was a quick draw in round 4 against Scott Laporte, who finished tied for second at 3/4. Not being from Wilmington, Colette was awarded the trophy for “Top non-Wilmington resident.” [...]
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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). [...]
The annual Corus Chess Tournament starts Saturday January 15, 2005. You can view the matchups, results and even watch the games live at their official site http://www.coruschess.com/ You can also watch the games on any of the chess servers – US Chess Live, Playchess, ICC and you can hear commentary on the games [...]
On December 15th, 2004, the Centreville School Chess Team visited the Charter School of Wilmington for an informal chess tournament. This was a wonderful experience for the students as they had the opportunity to play against students who were both older and more experienced. The Centreville team numbers ten players who range in [...]
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The Charter School of Wilmington wants to thank Newark Charter for their gracious hospitality and spirited play in a match held between the two schools on December 1, 2004. The event was great fun for both schools and the students learned quite a bit that day. The afternoon consisted of working on endgame [...]
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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 [...]