Exeter Chess Club
General Chess Handouts
Basic advice
- A course of study
using some of these handouts
- for players of different levels (guide
to levels/ratings)
- Posters for a Junior Club
{D}
- A selection of posters we have had up at Exeter.
- Essential checkmates {D}
(60k)
- The basic mating patterns for beginners, and a few
special ones from Vukovic.
- An ABC of chess
{D}
- The basic mental toolkit of chessplayers.
- General advice on the three phases of the game:
- General Opening advice
{D} {all?}
- General Middlegame advice
{D} {all?}
- General Endgame advice
{D} {all?}
- Perhaps, if you don't play much, these three will be difficult to make
full use of, but you might want to refer back to them from time
to time.
A Chess Glossary {all}
- For reference rather than study: comments and examples are
particularly invited. There is another glossary from
SmartChess, and even an encyclopedia at MECCA.
Top 10 tips for Juniors {D} {C}
- A long press release, including notes on the Giuoco
Pianissimo
Mini Chess Games {D}
- for beginning chess players to use as training exercises
Cool Tips {all}
- A trawl of advice from masters and others.
General
rules for the attack {D}
- From Steinitz and Vukovic
- Attacking the castled King {D}
- Examples of basic attacking themes and tactics
The
Very Slow King's-side attack {C}
- Examples of "clockwork" attacks with a closed centre.
- The Queen's-side attack {C}
- Attacking without a King as a target
- Assess Your Chess {all}
- Some things to look for in your own games.
Chess Praxis: annotated games by club players
- Books with annotated amateur games
- from the "Difference" handout
- Lessons from a Simul. (1995)
{all}
- We had a centenary Simul. recently by IM Gary Lane: challengers
had grades of BCF 70-160+ (1000-1900 ELO). Differences at a Simul, 1996.
- What makes a
difference? {all} How 120-grade players beat
100s. (84k)
- The master games found in the books (and in the Canon) are often
clear but always deep. What actually makes a difference among club
players? Differences at a Simul. See
also Alex's E-zine below.
- Club games {all}
- An annotated selection from Exeter players
- Assess Your Chess {all}
- Some things to look for in your own games.
Chess and chess players
- Lessons from Capablanca...
- ...through the medium of Peter Lane, who also has thoughts about
studying chess through master games.
Chess Quotes {all}
- I had to create a separate section for Stories, for Excuses
for Losing and another one for David
Bronstein. Does chess involve luck?
- Trawled from the 'net {all}
- I regularly read the rec.games.chess newsgroups, and saved for
my later enjoyment a number of documents.
- The Development of Chess Style
- A potted history of the champions of chess, and the history of
chess ideas.
"We perceive after a careful
consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution
has gone on, in general, in a way quite similar to that in which it
goes on with the individual chess player, only with the latter more
rapidly."
-- Richard RETI
- How do chessplayers think? and
Chess and psychology {all}
- Two related documents: I'm still writing the latter, but offer it
half-baked because I would like comments on it as early as I can have them.
- Problems and Studies
- A brief introduction for the curious.
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