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What is more important - Strategy or Tactics in Chess Training?
What is more important, the strategy or the tactics? It is well known that 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.

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.

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.

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 who 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 known "Fischer Random" games player.