Some of my favorite chess websites

Ken W. Smith

(http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/smith1kw/chess.htm)

 

WikipediaÕs entry on chess:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess

(If you havenÕt discovered Wikipedia yet – it beats any hard copy encyclopedia!) 

This page has introductory material on chess, plus tutorials and some famous chess games.

 

If I were to start all over in chess, IÕd concentrate on the endgame.  (The combinatorist will be intriqued by the Stiller monsters.)

 

The Exeter Chess Club homepage:

http://exetercc.technocool.net/chessweb/index.html

with lots of good instructional pages.

 

IntuitorÕs instruction webpage:

http://www.intuitor.com/chess/

 

About.chess has some tutorials and introductions.

http://chess.about.com/

 

ŌHow to get to (a USSF rating of) 1900Ķ

This website has some tutorials and then some chess quizzes.

http://www.entertainmentjourney.com/index1.htm

 

Play chess online.  There are a number of different online chess clubs.  Here are two:

http://www.chessclub.com/

http://www.caissa.com/

 

Sigma Chess is a free computer chess player for Macintosh:

http://www.salasnet.com/chess/

 

Play through thousands of games stored online:

http://www.chesslive.de/

Or examine a position by looking for it in the grandmaster database.

 

There is also the chess archives at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

The Week In Chess (latest news and games from recent grandmaster tournaments)

http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html

 

The Ken Smith in chess (I used to subscribe to Chess Digest!)  Although I was born in Texas, I was never able to play anywhere as good as Kenneth Ray Smith!

 

Other useful webpages:

Chess Informant

ChessCafe

International Correspondence Chess Federation