Exeter Chess Club Coaching Page
A page for people interested in
teaching and learning about chess
[whether they use Newtscape or not]
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Welcome to the Exeter Chess Club Coaching Page.
Since 28th Nov 1995. There is a US mirror for selected
items. [This is one of
Anand's favourite links ;-)]
Below you will a collection of materials
collected for use in Exeter Chess Club's
coaching sessions, and other documents and links of interest. If it all seems a bit much to
cope with at once I have composed a course
of study for players at different
levels {A} {B} {C} {D} (guide to
levels/ratings). I offer this all free in the hope that
people will send me their own favourite
instructive games and examples.
To use this site you need to be able to read chess notation and sometimes to understand chess symbols. [There is a more detailed
explanation of notation and more of the symbols available.]
The odd three-character codes in the Canon and
elsewhere (like [C40]) are the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings
(ECO) reference codes, for which there is a listing by code, a listing of ECO codes with English variation names
and an amazing comprehensive zip file on ftp of
variation names sorted by ECO code.
Contents:
Latest changes (not including
links,
quotes or
stories)...
{class}
The secret arts of castling {C/D}
Winning Drawn Endgames {C}/{all}
Practical Tactics {C} {D} {all?} 20 Jan
Four choices in the opening {C} 7 Jan 97
Weak Pawns {C} {B} 7 Jan 97
The Modern Italian Game {B} 7 Jan 97
Chess and psychology {all}, 30 July
Do you know how to write your own
handouts? Or do you just want to print
out mine? 10th July
There are now text-only versions of all the .html files;
they have the same name "file.html" with the extension ".txt", i.e.
"file.html.txt".
HOME
| EXETER CC
| COACHING
| CANON
| BOOKS
| LINKS
| QUOTES
| E-MAIL
Handouts:
General |
Tactics |
Strategy |
Openings |
Endings |
Techie
You can send me comments and
games at
[D.Regis@exeter.ac.uk]
but please read the notes below!
- Frequently Asked Questions: I try to respond
positively to all e-mail but, please, try reading the
Chess FAQ
list first.
- Can you help? I'm always after useful examples:
if you have any, please let me know! (Portable
Game Notation [the PGN
standard] format is nicest)
- Playing chess on the 'net: You can
play live
chess free via telnet or other interfaces at the British Internet Chess
Server (BICS) or other addresses
with players like
yourself. I'm not available to play by e-mail or give advice
on chess-playing
or tutorial
commercial software but there are other places where you can get help.
- Your web page: I like to hear about
instructional/coaching web pages, but I don't usually add others to my
links page. There are many indexes of chess who try to be
comprehensive, like Chess
Space, and I am sure they would be pleased to create a link for
you.
- General queries and requests can also be
directed to the appropriate rec.games.chess group: analysis, computers, politics, e-mail, misc...
[Someone has written an
interesting paper on the Internet using r.g.c. as an example.]
- Improving your chess:
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Article 9288 in rec.games.chess.misc:
Subject: Re: Best Quick Study??
From: sloan@cis.uab.edu (Kenneth Sloan)
Date: 22 Jun 1996 15:00:58 -0500
Organization: Dept of CIS, Univ. of Al at Birmingham
Annotate your last 20 tournament games.
--
Kenneth Sloan sloan@cis.uab.edu
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In a book by Dan Heisman called The Improving Annotator
he attributes his success to self-study of this sort. If Kenneth's advice
seems not enough to go on, here are some things to look for to
Assess Your Chess {all}.
Exeter
Chess Club Canonical Chess Games
and Positions.
Here is an index to 500
chess games {all}, a personal collection of good examples developed
through a discussion group at Exeter Chess
Club . It is, as you might expect, rather derivative, but
hopefully there are some examples you haven't seen before. The index
is about 70K, and has separate sections on
tactical patterns and
opening traps {D},
guidelines for opening play and
example openings {C} {D},
model attacking games {D} and
attacking techniques {C} {D},
defensive play {B} {C},
positional themes {B} {C} and
planning {B}, the
endgame {all}, the
psychology {all} of chess, and personal
style {all}.
If you want to download the complete canon in PGN format, you can
have it
complete,
without diagrams or
vanilla (no variations, comments,
flavourings or preservatives). If you can read ChessBase itself, the main
file and
index are also provided.
HOME
| EXETER CC
| COACHING
| CANON
| BOOKS
| LINKS
| QUOTES
| E-MAIL
Handouts:
General |
Tactics |
Strategy |
Openings |
Endings |
Techie
The point of collecting all those games was to put them in handouts to
go with presentations to children and adults. There are many more
games in the canon than are
included in the handouts below, particularly on attacking techniques and analysis and errors.
N.B.
The example games used in the openings handouts are kept in a separate database.
[Do you know how to edit/print out the
handouts?]
[If you would like to make your own chess pages, see the third part of the techie bit.]
I have composed a course
of study for players at different
levels.
Here are some HTML versions of the
finished handouts:
- General Browsers and beginners
- Tactics Get your eye in...
- Strategy Pieces and pawns
- Opening A series of short booklets
- Endings These rules apply in all endings,
apart from the exceptions.
HOME
| EXETER CC
| COACHING
| CANON
| BOOKS
| LINKS
| QUOTES
| E-MAIL
Handouts:
General |
Tactics |
Strategy |
Openings |
Endings |
Techie
Particular thanks to Andy Duplain, who wrote CBASCII (which has a homepage: see
also Techie bit), and without whom I would
never have got started.
Thanks also to anyone who has ever responded to an appeal for games on
the rec.games.chess
newsgroups, particularly Roy Blackmer (Petrosian-Peters), the kind
chessplayer who sent me Tatai-Korchnoi (sorry I lost your name),
Christoph Pfrommer for Tarrasch-Teichmann, several folk who sent me
the Montreal 1979 games, Jon Perry for pointing out lots of
embarrassing typos, Dave Oppendal for a couple of IQP games, Jason
Luchan for identifying both the misattribution and the true identity
of an imposter Alekhine-Nimzo game...
...and thanks to folk for their comments on the pre-release
version, particularly jud, Steve Rix,
David
Hayes, ...
$
A list of books I have used and other book
recommendations.
(no more chess)
Unenhanced for Netscape: i.e. no
frames, huge graphics, jiggling GIFs, JavaScript, Java applets, FONT
adjustments, clickable maps, garish backgrounds, or any other
unnecessary bandwidth-wasting devices which make using a proprietary
graphical browser more slow and more unpleasant than using a text-only
browser. These all seem to me
- to celebrate form over content
- to be opposed to the original idea of HTML/WWW, and in any event
- make browsing a pain: nothing more irritating than zipping into a new
site with LYNX to meet:
"You will need a
frames-enabled browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 or
Netscape Navigator 3 to use this site"
If you
are a Web author please bear in mind speeding surfers with
image loading turned OFF, LYNX users, blind users of screenreaders,
286 DOS machines in schools and in the developing world, etc., etc..
Please use ALT= elements in image tags, and provide
information in text as well as graphics.
[I suppose I should plead guilty to one charge of BLINK, and to playing with
BORDER when using tables.]
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Boycott Internet spam!
Dr.
Dave