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What is more important -The Strategy or the Tactics in Chess Training?
What is more important, the strategy or the tactics? As it is well known, the strategy provides an answer to the question 'What to do?' and the tactics provides an answer to the question 'How to do it?' A chess player seeks answers to both these questions during the whole chess game.

Modern Methods for Training in Chess
Special preparation of chess players is being modified nowadays due to additional opportunities that could not be realized previously due to technological restrictions.

Teaching Material for the Game of Chess

Chess Is Cool for Kids!
What many parents are beginning to learn is that chess can and does help foster developmental thinking in children. As a chess coach, I have seen that chess does more, much more. Kids begin to develop logical thinking, critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, as well as, mathematical skills, algebra and geometry.

The Relative Value of Chess Pieces and The Principles of Chess Play
World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz discusses one of the most important exigencies in the conduct of the chess game. Taken from The Collected Works of Wilhelm Steinitz, you will learn how to judge the relative value of the chess pieces as well as general principles for the guidance of play in all parts of the chess game.

Chess Games

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
Here is your chance to experience chess as it used to be - or might have been! In January of 1863 a match took place between Francesco Discart and Cornelio Bonetti, using the old Italian rules of chess. Castling was "free" style, en passant pawn captures were disallowed, and a pawn could only be promoted to those pieces already captured! All 15 games of this great match are annotated by Discart himself, and much additional material is included.

Wilhelm Steinitz-Zukertort Chess Game Match, 1886
This is a sample of how Wilhelm Steinitz covered the First World Championship and is presented for your enjoyment from The Collected Works of Wilhelm Steinitz. The Introduction to the Steinitz-Zukertort match will give you a taste of the excitement in the atmosphere at the beginning of the first world championship match. The game itself is richly annotated by Steinitz and shows why he is considered the world's greatest chess instructor. This extract features just one of hundreds of games (850+) annotated by the man who was the idol of Bobby Fischer and revolutionized chess into what it is today. Check out The Collected Works of Wilhelm Steinitz

Fischer Random in 1875
Even Bobby’s "Fischer Random" is not without precedent in standard chess. It is well known that Fischer is a great admirer of Wilhelm Steinitz, and has studied extensively the 1^st World Chess Champion’s games and writings. As a teenager Fischer was seen reading the International Chess Magazine, while as recently as 1996 he was observed buying a collection of Steinitz games (The Games of Wilhelm Steinitz) from a chess shop in Argentina. See one of the first know "Fischer Random" games player.

Jose Capablanca - David Janowski, 1918
Here you will see World Champion Jose Capablanca play and discuss an important tournament chess game he fought against David Janowski. If you like this, you will love The Chess Machine!

Playing the Playbook
White is an International Master and a skilled attacker. He is much stronger blitz player than Tim Sawyer our fearless author. Here he is playing one of his many online simultaneous exhibitions. See how the Alekhine's Defense (a 1.e4 opening) is played.