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Chess KnowledgeBase Free Chess Articles Chess Game ArticlesChessCentral continues to bring depth and variety to its on-line chess game article collection, and is committed to expanding this page regularly with high-quality chess game articles for your enjoyment. Articles (some really, mini e-books!), teaching material, little-known matches, repertoire files, and more will be found here - all free. Need help with your chess product? Check out our FAQ. You will find many of your questions answered there. Another valuable resource is ChessCentral's Forum: The Chess Exchange. Thousands of articles on every chess topic and answers to almost all your chess questions. If you wish to see our expanded collection, join our Free Member's Area where you will find information on the game of chess, enough to feed the passion! Chess Software InformationChess Software Buying Guides 1. Chess Playing Software Fritz 12 Help Videos ChessBase 11 Help Videos Chess DVDs: Foxy Chess Openings - The King's Indian Attack A Short Guide to Convekta (ChessOK) Chess Software Rybka 4 Chess Playing Software; In-Depth Report MasterChess and Stockfish 1.8 Introducing the ChessBase Opening Encyclopedia Learn Chess - Play Chess Better
"How to Play Chess" Videos
ChessCentral.com - The Leader in Cutting Edge Chess -- presents beginner chess videos on how to play chess. This fourteen-part series of short videos, narrated by noted chess software writer and video producer Steve Lopez, will teach you how the chess pieces move, as well as describe several special moves of which some pieces are capable. You'll also learn the difference between "check" and "checkmate", plus the various ways in which a game of chess can become a draw (with neither player winning). While these videos won't make you a grandmaster, they will make your first steps into the exciting and challenging world of chess much easier. Learn to Play Chess for Chess Beginners and Kids
ChessCentral can help you learn the basics of chess. Whether a youngster or grown-up beginner, you'll find the tools here to master those first principles. Chess rules, starting out in strategy and tactics, simple chess openings and must-know endgames! Chess Openings which Chess Opening is Best for You? Chess Is Cool for Kids! 5 Easy Ways to Improve your Chess Learn from your Chess Games Rules of Chess to Rule the Chess Board! What Chess Playing Equipment can do for You Chess Game Daily Tips Play Chess - Tips for Winning Chess Strategy The Relative Value of Chess Pieces and The Principles of Chess Play Chess Moves for Chess Improvement Checkmate in the Game of Chess Which is more important - The Strategy or the Tactics in Chess Training? Modern Methods for Training in Chess Chess is a Great Value Chess Sets, Chess Pieces, Chess BoardsHow to Buy the Right Chess Set: Get the Pieces and Board for You! Chess Sets for Chess Tournaments How to Use a Chess Clock Chess Sets and Chess Pieces Chess Sets, Pieces, Boards - The Wood The Staunton Chess Pieces Chess Teaching Tools for Coaches, Schools, and ClubsBasics of Chess DatabasesThis ChessCentral article will give you the basic information you need to understand databases, copying games, and distributing chess lessons in database form. Creating Flash Cards for Training in Chess Teaching chess to young students can be a challenging and rewarding experience. Much of the challenge lies in the area of keeping a student's interest; flash cards and making a game out of a chess game can be the answer. Creating ChessBase Training Positions Chess computer software has become more than a convenience to chess coaches over the last several years -- it's become invaluable. These electronic tools allow teachers to create and deliver lessons and training to their students using a variety of media. Computers and Chess AnalysisWhat is Fritz Powerbook?All of ChessBase's chess playing programs (Fritz, Rybka, Hiarcs, Shredder, Junior) come with their own opening books. So why would you need another one? Steve Lopez explains why you'd want a larger opening book for purposes of chess training, study, and improvement. Using Multiple Chess Engines to Analyze Your Games ChessBase offers a variety of "modular" chess playing programs (called "engines"), but why would you need more than one chess engine? ChessCentral columnist Steve Lopez offers one reason (of many) in this article on the "Compare analysis" feature found in the Fritz and Rybka chess program interfaces. ChessBase 11's New "Novelty Annotation" Have you ever wondered where your latest game departed from "known theory"? ChessBase 11's new "Novelty Annotation" feature will pinpoint it for you and show you the moves of the "main line" variation of your game -- all with just the click of a mouse. Chess software columnist Steve Lopez offers a first look at this exciting new features of the ChessBase chess database program. ChessBase 11's New Database Desktop Chess software columnist Steve Lopez offers a first look at the new features of the improved Database Desktop in the ChessBase 11 chess database program. Chess Assistant 11: A Great Product, But With Many Little Bugs Lance Martin takes a look at the features of Convekta's flagship database program Chess Assistant 11. Illustrated with screen shots, Lance describes the advantages and disadvantages of the CA software. Setting Fritz12 Chess Software to Beginner Levels Fritz12 is a very strong chess playing program; but for most of us it's also an overwhelming opponent when it plays at full strength. How can you get an easier game from Fritz12? In this article, longtime chess software columnist Steve Lopez shows you how. Fritz12 Chess Playing Software's "Friend mode" The Fritz12 chess playing software contains an "adaptive" setting, one in which the chess engine attempts to adapt its own strength to match yours. It's called "Friend mode" and this article will show you how it works and tell you how best to use it. Casual Chess Games in Fritz12 Fritz12 offers a variety of specialized playing modes such as Rated Game, Friend, and Sparring. But what do you do when you just want a plain vanilla game at, say, ten seconds a move? This article will show you how to set up those "casual" playing modes. More About Casual Chess Games in Fritz12 ChessBase software guru Steve Lopez offers additional information about Fritz12 and casual chess games. 3D Board settings in Fritz 12 cChess Playing Software How to use the advanced setting options to make your Fritz12's 3D boards look even better! Making ChessBase Chess Database Management Software ready for Rybka Every registered user of ChessBase is welcome to run free upgrades for his program online. The newest upgrade is available right from within ChessBase 10 through menu Help Query Upgrade. See how to make your upgraded ChessBase use Rybka as its default engine. "Modular" Chess Engines and What They'll Do for You Owning (and using!) an assortment of chess programs is often very useful because different programs usually play in different ways. Additionally, various programs might have useful features which differed from each other. How To Make Fritz Chess Software Play a Specific Chess Opening Two frequently-asked questions regarding Fritz (and its "sister" programs which share the same interface: Rybka, Hiarcs, Junior, etc.) are closely related: Can I make Fritz play from a specific position? Can I make Fritz play a specific opening? Chess Engine Management in Fritz Computer chess aficionados collect chess engines the way Malcolm Forbes collected toy soldiers. There are a lot of benefits to doing so; different programmers bring a variety of things with them to the proverbial table, and the cornucopia of available chess engines runs the gamut of playing styles from the wildly sacrificial to solidly defensive. Chess Game Analysis Using ChessBase Engines Chess Game Analysis using ChessBase Engines Chess Game Analysis using ChessBase Engines Chess Engine Tricks High Performance Analysis with Chess Engines Kasparov vs. Fritz Chess Database Installation Better is... Chess GamesMagnus Storms NanjingMagnus Carlsen dominated the Nanjing chess tournament in October 2010. The game from the penultimate round, pitting Carlsen against GM Veselin Topalov, is presented here (with notes by ChessCentral's Steve Lopez). Magnus Carlsen on a Rampage! Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen has arguably become the biggest chess phenominon since Bobby Fischer! In October 2010, Carlsen dominated an international round-robin event in Nanjing, China; one of his games from that event is presented here. A Chess Game You Won't Believe Chess columnist Steve Lopez presents a really cool little oddity: a game from a 1924 Jose Capablanca simul in which the World Champion actually lost to an amateur in less than twenty moves. Steinitz Annotates his Chess Game! Dr. Ron Plays the Bird Chess Opening! City of Vienna - City of Paris Correspondence Chess Game, 1884-1885
(Annotated by Wilhelm Steinitz). The following game is one of two annotated by Wilhelm Steinitz in the January 1886 issue of the International Chess Magazine. Here we may see Steinitz at work as a chess journalist, facing deadlines and other pressures - yet observe the care and thoroughness taken with his analysis. Both games are given in ChessBase format for download on the web page given in The Collected Works of Wilhelm Steinitz CD, for which complete details may be found there. Discart- Bonetti Chess Game Match, 1863 You can own a high-quality "mini" e-book of this match in interactive ChessBase format, complete with text documents, keys, links and images. Click here to learn more Wilhelm Steinitz-Zukertort Chess Game Match, 1886 Fischer RandomChess Game in 1875 Jose Capablanca - David Janowski, 1918 Chess Game Playing the Chess Playbook A Famous Chess Loser Read an Excerpt from Art of War |
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