Chess Links

• An introduction to Computer Chess
• Computer Chess Programming excellent site, with references.
• International Computer Chess Association
• Computer Chess Club
• Computer Chess: the Drosophila of AI with a section on the history of Computer Chess.
• Bill Wall's History of Computer Chess
• Computer World Champions
• Index to some useful documents from rec.games.chess.computer
• DarkThought Home Page Games and info on how Darkthought plays chess.
• Gambit Soft Many, many freeware, shareware and payware programs
• Kasparov vs Deep Blue
• Kasparov vs Deep Blue - The rematch
• Kasparov vs Deep Blue - Game 1
• Tim Mann's page XBOARD and WINBOARD available here
• Rajncajn's Cyber Chess A good site for finding software and many other things.
• Problem solving Software A good problem solver, Windows 95

Chess Problems and Problemists

• Manolis Stratakis
• Cornel Pacurar's Page
• The Retrograde Analysis Corner
• Mario Velucchi's Personal Interests
• The GorFo Chess Problems
• Stockholm Chess Association and its Internet Problem-Solving Tournament
• Exeter Chess Club: Studies and problems
• TheChess Problem Server
• Problem Chess in Upper Austria (in German)
• 1001 years old chess problems!
• Library Catalogue of the British Chess Problem Society
• Pretty Easy Chess Puzzles from The Northwest Neighbor Newspaper
• The Retrograde Analysis Corner
• Chess-Space Good problem resources
• Solving Contest for Mathematical Chess Problems 1993
• Vincent's List of Chess Problems
• Chess Problems Unlimited
• Fun Chess Positions
• Archive of chess problems (in French)
• Torsten Linss problem page
• Roberto Cassano's problem pages In Italian
• Cornell's Chess Problem Page
• Exeter Chess Club Studies and Problems
• Internet Problem Solving Tourny From the Stockholm Chess Association
• Vito Rallo's Problem Page In Italian and English - retros and other chess problems
• Vincent's Chessproblems Page Over 100 chess problems on this page. Many different kinds.
• Jim Sterrett's Problem of the week page

• Noteable Chess Personalities
• FIDE laws of Chess (English) (French) : Note law changes in 1997
• Chess Notation Algebraic and Descriptive.
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Glossary from Exeter Chess Club
• Another good Glossary from the London Chess Centre
• A chess encyclopedia tho' Bill Wall's Chess Trivia is very useful.
• How to pronounce that chess word/name
• Chess Translator Chess terms in 17 languages.
• Guide for new tournament players
• A general guide to the Swiss System
• Chess Informant's classification of openings, endings and combinations.
• Internet Collegiate Chess League
• For a vast array of chess info. try Bill Wall's Page.
• Polgar Chess Center - the home page of Susan Polgar - The Womens World Champion
• Chess Variants
• Bughouse

• Chapter One of books recommended by the USCF
• Ignacio Marin
• Tim Harding of Chess mail
• IM Jeremy Silman of Inside Chess
• Hanon Russell and Glenn Nudzinski from the Chess Cafe
• Bertrand's Chessbookreviews Homepage
• Recommended books from the Chess FAQ
• Randy's Revealing Reviews 'from the practical player's perspective'.
• James Thin Book Reviews
• Batsford Publications (does work - honest)
• Waterstones Chess Books
• R&D Publishing
• H3 Publications
• Dave Regis's list of Education Books
• The Chess Bookshop
• James Holwell, a chess teacher, has created a book-on-disk suitable for beginners. It's free for download.
• See also the shareware books listed below under Correspondence Chess.

• John C. Knudsen's CC Page including electronic shareware books
  • 19th Century Correspondence Chess
  • The Artist As A Chess Player - The Chess Player As An Artist
  • Correspondance Chess Soup - best of his web pages from the first year.
  • 5,000 Chess Miniatures, 1790-1938
  • 5,000 Chess Miniatures, 1939-1960
  • 352 pages of fascinating chess trivia by Bill Wall
• The International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF)
• British Correspondance Chess Association
• Irish Correspondence Chess Association page
• British Postal Chess Federation
• Chess Mail aimed at correspondance players.
• Fernschach International
• DEUTSCHER FERNSCHACHBUND (BdF)

• A gif or text only tutorial to the rules of Chess
• ChessWise University Online
• Yermo Chess Academy
• Exeter's Coaching Page, a vast array of material for all standards of player
• Chess for Success
• Fun Chess Positions by John Coffery
• Planet Chess
• Jonathan Edward's Chess Pages
• Virtual Chess Coach
• Bill Wall's lessons including some of the common traps in the opening.
• Chess Archive'sBeginners Page By David Hayes
• E. Suastegui has some basic endgames for viewing with his Java script ChessTutor
• Chess Space's Education Section
• Jon Edwards' Home Page A chess tutorial and many good links

FIDE is the governing world organization of chess. It organizes world championship competitions, draws up rules of the game, awards the titles of International Grandmaster, International Master, International Woman Master, International Chess Judge etc. It was founded in 1924. Until 1946 the current world champion chose his opponent when defending his title. Since 1946, the year the Soviet Union joined, FIDE has been the main decision making body.

• FIDE Home Page
• FIDE laws of Chess (English) (French) : Note the Changes to the Rules in 1997
• The current FIDE World Ranking
• An alternative site to look up FIDE Chess Ratings
• Compare these to those by the PCA Professional Chess Association

• Mark Crowthers The Week in Chess has many games, including the most recent top master games.
• Exeter Chess Club's coaching archive
• You may be interested in the Games Exchange
• HemSoft Chess Page Has a good PGN record of recent Tournaments.
• 60 Bobby Fisher Games displayed using a groovy Java script written by our very own Steve Pickles.
• If you want to see some of the top games, including the recent Kasparov v Deep Blue games, animated on your browser, try The Chess Theater by Palle Mathiasen.
• While Stephen has many games with a board image for each move.
• E. Suastegui has many games available for viewing with his Java script ChessTutor
• BookUp Corp. offer Essentia, a games database, plus a free demo with 1000games and viewer.

• Chess Space
• New in Chess
• Chesslinks Worldwide
• Chess Yahoo
• Chess links by Harris
• Essential Links to Chess
• See Also Search Engines

• Chess Master Enclopedia is an excellent account of the history of Chess, plus some of the Chess Grandmasters.
• Members of Edinburgh University can use the Britannica Internet Guide to view their Chess Articles or their Chess Biographies
• Chess Time Line by Bill Wall, key events with dates.
• World Chess Champions Factual accounts of the world champions plus some interesting Historical Documents
• Uncrowned KingsThe games of players not given the opportunity to fight for the World Championship
• The Paul Keres Page
• The Chess Cafe A potpourri of articles, letters and essays from the days of yore
• Bill Wall's list of Chess Personalities
• US Chess Hall of Fame
• Winners of FIDE Events
• Bill Wall's List of Firsts
• For a vast array of chess info.from World Championships to the History of Chess on Stamps - see Bill Walls Page.

• Mark Crowther's The Week In Chess
• Inside Chess Magazine
• Planet Chess
• Chess Mail aimed at correspondance players.
  

• E.U. Chess Club's magazine Blitz 'n' Pieces
• ChessMaster Times
• The Times (Raymond Keene)
• East Anglian Daily Times (Kevin O'Connell)
• Washington Times Chess Column (David Sands) - 1 article
• Washington Post - search for chess, and here's a sample of Kavalek's chess column
• The Kibitzer (Tim Harding)
• Dutch Treat (Hans Ree)
• Chess World Magazine - Italian
• SIR-Scacchi In Rete (Chess on the Net) - new Italian magazine.
• Chess Renaissance Newsletter Archives
• Gambit - a commercial Magazine
• Australian Chess News Upto date Columns from Sun Herald & Canberra Times (Ian Rogers), The Age (Chris Depasquale), Sunday Mail (Ian Murray)
• Down the Diagonal newsletter of the Huntsville [AL] Chess Club, no longer published
• ICCA Journal
• King's File Magazine
• UPitt News Archive
• Connecticut Chess Magazine
• Virginia Chess Newsletter
• ChessBase Magazine
• Computer Chess Publications
• Lewis Stiller - Reflections on symmetry, parallel computation, and chess endgames
• The Chess Abyss An interesting article
• Sam SLoans Chess Page with lots of chess articles, many of a political nature.
• Chess Informants Home Page
• Chess Pride (chesspride@aol.com) is the only magazine dedicated to the history of gay and lesbian chessplayers.

• Internet Chess library
• University of Pittsburgh's home page
• Chess Archive
• Steve Rix's Edinburgh chess page
• The Chess Cafe
• Bill Walls Chess page

• rec.games.chess.analysis
• rec.games.chess.computer
• rec.games.chess.misc
• rec.games.chess.play-by-email
• rec.games.chess.politics
• gnu.chess
• comp.ai.games
• alt.chess.ics
• alt.chess.bdg
• rec.games.chinese-chess

• ECO Codes- very comprehensive, with search option.
• ECO Calculator
• Chess Openings - a graphical html version of the ECO database distributed with GNU Chess
• Chess Informant's classification of openings, endings and combinations.

• Many openings (by Dave Regis) with analysis
• Online Chess Openings Library - local copy of files supplied with ChessTutor, Java and Ascii
• Chess for Success openings guide
• Openings for berserk attackers (by David Flude)
• Unusal Openings with analysis by 'acummin'
• Unorthodox Openings from ChessWorks
• Openings with analysis from ChessWorks.
• Openings with analysis by Cornbelt Chess Alliance, the Vienna and Center Counter
• Alapin-French (1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Be3).
• Blackmar-Diemer Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.e4 dxe4 4.f3) has several pages from David Flude, Jyrki Heikkinen

• Paul Verhelst - Good list of links.
• Armin Fingerhut - More links.
• Ulriche Schlechte
• Harris - Good list of links.
• Smargi's chess links
• Yobe's chess links
• Steve Pribut's page Good set of links, especially events, FAQs, etc.
• Jim Weinheimer's page
• IGCRay's chess links
• Jon Edwards' Home A chess tutorial and many good links
• Maximiliano Alvarez MaxiChess
  
  

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