Chess Coaching Links
Links for people interested in teaching and learning about
chess
[Please don't e-mail me with requests to be added to this list unless
you have at least some free instructional material; instead tell Yahoo
or Chess Space about your
site.]
- Other instructional chess pages
- Links to look for coaching links:
- The big sites and indices...
- Other and Non-Internet contacts (shome mistake surely? - Ed.)
Other instructional chess pages (in no particular order):
- Square one
- Demeter's Chess Page tells you how to play chess.
-
Beginner's Page at the Chess Archives (David Hayes), including an
excellent Chess
Students FAQ. Now enhanced for Frames/Java!
- There is good advice in the rec.games.chess newsgroup's FAQ
(Frequently Asked Questions) list with answers, available from various
sources:
UK copy
from Steve Rix: Steve also keeps some links;
US copy from
Steven Pribut, who has lots of nice chess links.
[N.B. Steven is the FAQ maintainer, so other
copies on the net may be earlier versions]
FTP in four parts from rtfm. [The FAQ has something of a US bias,
for a home-grown UK booklist, see above]
- Joe
Brooks has composed and made available texts explaining en passant rule, beginners' guidelines, systems of notation and US
ratings.
- Virtual Chess
Coach: good stuff, starting with the moves.
- US Correspondence Champion Jon Edwards claims Chess is fun!
The moves and more, in Netscape Frames.
- Improve
Your Chess Tactics online book from John Coffey; includes tips on
improving and other topics.
- Chess Web University
offers courses for sale and has an example of its material on a Preview page.
- Manus Fealy bids you Welcome to the Chess for Success
Tutorial, where he has several pages of free notes on on topics
from basic tactics to deep strategy.
- Chess Coaching Tips
from Bill Jordan on each phase of the game, and advice on strategy and
tactics. Bill also offers coaching over the 'net. Scott
Taylor offers a free sample analysis; you can find an online
directory of chess coaches at Duif's place.
- Here's an interesting one: chess used as a topic area for teaching
undergraduates. Pomona College ran a term's class on The Nature of Chess Players,
and made the conduct and progress of the class open to the Internet.
The Final
Projects include essays on scholastic
chess, Freudian Theory
and chess and Art, Mathematics
and Chess.
- Junior and School chess
- Duif's place has a
host of relevant material, including Tips For Parents of Young
Chessplayers and an International Directory of Chess
Teachers.
- Scholastic
Chess: Great site! Contains original material produced by the U.S. Chess
Center (for young players and parents), and many links to scholastic chess
material elsewhere (where I found the Kingsley Chess Online
Chess Championship Corner, Kasparov-Anand explained for children and
others!)
- There is a Scholastic Chess mailing
list; e-mail scholastic-chess-request@cis.uab.edu
to join.
- Chess For
Juniors Home Page (USA), camps and materials on offer.
- Chess'n Math
Homepage: - a Canadian initiative incorporating school chess into
maths (or vice versa!). Netscape users may wish to access through this link.
- Chess
in Schools: a Brazilian Project - not just Chess and Maths, but
Chess and Geography, History...!
- Peter Walker's Essex Junior Chess
News has some Tactical Puzzles and notes on games.
- Kids' Chess Network - New
York City. There is some nice material developing on the openings
here, both at introductory and advanced levels. Check out the material
on The Italian
Game and other Double King Pawn
Openings.
-
Chess Ideas, an Australian Chess Coaching page which has some
interesting material on what there is in chess, and what you can get out
of it.
- Others:
-
SmartChess chess tutorial is now available: if they get this
right, I can give up...
- Kevin
O'Connell has an archive of columns, some coaching advice and
promises some interesting perspectives from his study of sports
science: check it out!
- Sample
lectures from GM Gabriel Schwartzman (you can
force him to give you more by pressing money into his hand)
- Planet Chess not only
has waycool graphics but a Chess 101 instructional
section, Endgame lessons, and other goodies.
- Lonnie Lee has provided the THE 64 COMMANDMENTS OF
CHESS.
- The Chess Scene , a new amateur e-zine devoted to the
amateur game. It promises to be entertaining and accessible, and will
be better with your support.
[Old URL: http://www.demon.co.uk/Alex-Scene/Index.html]
We often use Club games from Exeter players in
coaching. For other amateur games, many players maintain a 'vanity'
Web page with a game or two (like this
one!), and Rudolf Steinkellner (below) has a
collection of CC games.
See also the Difference handout which has a booklist.
- There is some good information and exercises at Hellas Chess Club, but I have
always found it slow to load. Best of luck!
- The USCF have a free syndicated weekly column (*), and offer a set of 'Chapter One' book advertisements,
two of which are very relevant:
There are other goodies there too, like Learn Chess with Gary Kasparov(!)
(*) Other newspaper columns are occasionally
updated at the Chess Connection,
and there is a list of online journals at Chess Space, many of
which have sites with sample articles. Latest of these is Tim
Harding's Chess Mail for CC
chess; Tim also has a fine on-line column The Kibitzer at the Chess
Cafe. I have some information about KingPin magazine; young players will welcome the
USCF School
Mates magazine.
-
Norbert Friedrich has all sorts of goodies, including some
instruction on endings.
- Last time I looked the
recent FICS events included some helpful lectures.
- Nigel
Davies on the Modern Defence , courtesy of BICS
- Barnet Chess
Club is starting a section of technical
white papers, e.g. on the Sicilian Defence, Sveshnikov/Pelikan
Variation.
-
Master Preparation: Lectures, a Non-Credit Continuing Education
Course in Chess by International Grandmaster Ilya Smirin: course materials
- Analysed games
from Danny Mozes (one of the strongest players to use a computer to
choose his moves on IC$ and FICS), and company.
- Ignacio
Marin offers opinions and advice on a variety of chess topics.
Worth a look, if only to find out about "Becoming a chess
master!". [Needs a little salt
seasoning. Ignacio has a lively style, but "The opposite of a
great truth is also true." (Bohr)]
- There is some more splendidly opinionated stuff at Paul Powell's Chess
Page. For a free sample chess lesson send email to memnoch@voicenet.com.
- And last, but by no means least, Steve Martinson
has kindly sent some notes from his own work with school children,
which I am pleased to offer through a separate
Menu Page.
Links to look for coaching links:
-
Chess: Education index of Chess Space - recommended!
- Search the
web's chess resources for links about "Education" (praise and
thanks to Steffen Jakob for making the search possible!)
...or browsing at any of the big sites or indices couldn't hurt...
- Sites: Internet Chess Library or
its ICL European
mirror site, Traveller
Chess Archives, University
of Pittsburgh Chess Club (which has an Education
section), or its European mirror for ChessBase games.
There is also the wonderful - THE WEEK IN CHESS from
Mark Crowther, and sundry local sites like the Dallas Chess Homepage
- Indices:
You have got to check out
Chess Space,
rated one of the top 5% of Web sites: it has indices of links for openings and
endings.
Sean Whalen's site at The Mining Company had
helpful descriptions of each site. Other starting points include Yahoo!
- Chess Chesslinks
Worldwide, Maclin Chess
[links and news], the Yahoo
Chess Index (and search facility), GNN's Chess
Index and Rudolf
Steinkellner's Chess Page (which has a whole bunch of amateur CC games).
- A recent and welcome development is Maskeret's
MECCA Chess encyclopedia, where you can play
Chess Roulette
to get a random Chess Web site!
Other and Non-Internet contacts
- Addresses of UK
Chess organisations.
- Many publishers and suppliers are getting onto the Web, in the British Isles
this includes
Batsford,
Cadogan,
Chess Monthly,
KingPin magazine,
Chess Mail...
- UK Chess suppliers ( postal
addresses ) Commercial suppliers on the web [like ChessBase,
Yasser Seirawan's Inside Chess and s1 editrice] can be found at Chess Space, and at
the CHESS
CONNECTION. They may have samples to download and/or a collection
of links. One particularly for young players is to be found at Chess For Students,
Inc..
- Nearly chess:
This page is only about chess, but I do have a soft spot for
Mini Chess Teaching Games
and other
Chess Variants
like
Semi-Random Baseline Chess and
Exchange Chess
(="Bughouse" in the US, although they do play mating drops), and I also enjoy
Retrograde analysis and
Studies and problems. And don't get me started on Bridge LATEST Bridge-on-the-WEB...
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