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  • Chess Related Novels & Stories

    member Adam Katz asked: Do you know of any works of fiction that mention or give pride-of-place to chess? The older the better. I am a sucker for the 19th century, but, though I can find plenty enough in the 20th century (Eliot’s THE WASTELA... | Read More

  • Youth Rulez

                    Last article featured two positions from the Aeroflot Open, which was hosted in Moscow. Grandmaster Le Quang Liem won the event, scoring an impressive 7/9 with 5 wins and 4 draws, and 0 losses. Going into the last ro... | Read More

  • Creating a Study Program

    Creating a Study Program Mr. Svorcan asked: I am self-taught chess player. I have read a few books and have some chess software (Fritz, Chessmaster, etc). I play chess regularly on the net but my “real” rating is unknown, however on some web... | Read More

  • Your Questions Answered 9/14

    [Ed: this week, our daily columnists [may] have secretly traded columns. From this Sunday through Friday, read all the columns, and guess who wrote which. Mail your guesses to dpruess at chess.com. A couple prizes will be awarded at random to thos... | Read More

  • 10 chess books you don't want to miss

    When I was a kid, PCs weren’t that widespread yet, so books were our #1 choice when it came to chess studies. Of course, innovative technologies speed up the process of learning chess, but the old methods shouldn’t be totally neglected too. Th... | Read More


    • chess_loves

      The game of chess calls for shrewd analytical skills of positions coupled with calculations to gain control over the game. It is essential that good positional play should be entwined with calculations of moves and deployment of effective tactics... | Read More

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      • | Apr 6, 2013
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    • Obsession Cycles

      I've rediscovered chess. Again. Right now all I want to do is play chess, read about chess, do chess puzzles, study my old chess games, install chess software, etc. I've entered another USCF correspondence chess tournament. I'm searching for lo... | Read More

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      • | Mar 5, 2013
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    • Chess Lessons and Free Chess Software

      I want to share with you my list of free chess software and I would like to know... if you can help me to improve the list. The List is on www.freechesslessons.org  If you send me free chess software that are not on the list I will put your na... | Read More

    • Alcher's Chess Weekly: Christmas Edition [ENGLISH]

      *I'd like to express my apologies for the late publication of this installment. I will try and work hard to meet the deadline for the next issues.* Good day! I'm back to give you the freshest news and issues that surrounds the league for the p... | Read More

    • How to install chess engine in the winboard

      Winboard is a free program that allows to analizy our chess game for free,but when ever we need to upgrade to the new engine chess,we need to understand the following step   To install engines in the Winboard you must pay attention that WINBOARD ... | Read More


  • Rybka Controversy Renewed

    In June 2010 Vasik Rajlich, the author of the strongest commercial chess software program - Rybka, was sensationally accused of plagiarizing code from other programs, especially Fruit. The International Computer Games Association (ICGA) stripped ... | Read More

  • Fritz 12 Released in October

    Fans of Chessbase software will no doubt be pleased to hear that the release of the latest version of their flagship playing program Fritz, is due in October.  So what is new in Fritz 12?  Well, the menu layout has been completely re-designed f... | Read More

  • Rybka Is World Champion Again

    Rybka has retained it's title at the 17th World Computer Chess Championship, held in Pamplona, Spain from 11-18 May.  A report on last year's championship is here. This year's event featured 10 of the top chess programs in a round-robin competit... | Read More

  • Chess Mentor: Classic Chess Software Now Online!

    A long long long time ago in a chess galaxy far far away an idea was conceived to create the best interactive chess software in the world using proven teaching methods. From that concept was born "Chess Mentor" which launched in the earl... | Read More

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    • | Dec 5, 2007
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  • Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition - The Art of Extending a Franchise

    It’s hard to name something “11th Edition” and have people get excited about it. The first 5 editions are pretty straightforward, then the 6th is fine because you have to get to the 7th which is a magic number, but then the 8th a... | Read More


  • Bughouse chess

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    Bughouse (also reffered as tagteam and siamese chess) is played with two teams of two, using two sets. Each player on the team plays a different color than their partner.  It begans as normal blitz chess, but every piece a player captures, he... Read More »