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Tournaments

Actual events can be found at Michael Niermann's Chess Tournament Calendar at chess.net

The tournament calendar of Sean Whalen

First Saturday Chess Tournament Series for IGM, IM, IM norm and ELO-rating in Budapest, Hungary

Recent Results provided by Alabama Chess Federation

Links to single events 1998:

• Hoogevens VAM tourney, Oct 16-24, 1998

• 33rd Chess Olympiad, Elista 1998 (find some of the games via Iceland), see also a page provided by Tasc ChessSystem

• Dortmunder Schachtage, 26. Juni 1998 - 5. Juli 1998 mit Berichten von TeleSchach

• Frankfurter Chess Classic, 17.-21. Juni 1998

• Bacrot vs. Hübner, Berlin, 14. Juni 1998

• Computer-Aided Chess match between Kasparov and Topalov, 9-13 June 1998

• Karpov-Polgar in an 8 game exhibition in Budapest, Hungary, June 9-12, 2 games per day at G/30 time controls.

• Kasparov beat Svidler in a 2 game blitz match on ICC. The event was part of the Jubilee Chess Festival and the time control was 6 0.

• Kramnik vs. Shirov - Final de Candidatos WCC in Cazorla, España, May 25 til June 8 1998, see as well on TELELINE and the games in PGN

• XXXIII Torneo Internacional Capablanca in Memoriam, ciudad de la Habana, 6 al 22 de Mayo de 1998

• Qualifizierungsturnier für die Weltmeisterschaft der Damen und Herren, 27. April bis 9. Mai 1998 in Dresden

• New York Open 1998, Nine round Swiss March 18 through March 22nd or March 16 through 22nd 3,4,5 or 7day schedule! Optional two weekend schedule on March 14-15.

• Linares SuperGrandmaster tournament, a 7 player Category 21 event with an ELO average of 2752 from Feb 21st until March 10th (see also an Englich summary and a Spanish chess server)

• 7th International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship (Feb 11th till 15th 1998) see also Computer Chess at Uni Paderborn

• The Official Website of the Hoogovens 1998 Super-Grandmaster Tournament,a mirror and result table by Sam Sloan.

• 1998 FIDE Final World Championship in Lausanne , with comments by Sam Sloan and results provided by U.S. Chess Online

Links to single events 1997:

• FIDE World Championship: all games of the candidates tournament, December 8-30,1997 in Groningen, The Netherlands, with result chart and the Open Grandmaster Tournament

• YOUTH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP UNDER 10, 12 AND 14, 1997, December 7-19, Cannes, France

• Investbanka 11. - 21. November 1997 and reports in TWIC

• Die SG Turm Trier 1877 e.V. wird 120 Jahre alt. Aus diesem Anlaß veranstalten wir vom 27. Oktober bis 4. November 1997 ein internationales Einladungsturnier der Kategorie IV.

• 4th World Chess Team Championship played in nine rounds (one round a day) with the first round on October 25, 1997, and the last round on November 2, 1997.

• WDR Fernsehpartie - Die Spiele der Meister online im WDR, W. Kramnik - J. Polgar vom 31.08.1997

• US Chess Championship from August 22 through September 12 in Chandler, Arizona.

• Schach der Großmeister - Fernsehschachpreis 1997

• 4th North Bay International Open - August 6-10, 1997

• The 98th Annual US Open Championship starts August 3 in Orlando, Florida, and runs for two weeks.

• The fifth Lost Boys Chess Tournament in Antwerp from August 1-10, 1997

• Nova Scotia Open - Halifax July 18-20, 1997

• Canadian Open - Winnipeg July 12-20, 1997

• Enjoy an interesting Chess Festival '97 - June 20th to June 29th in Århus

• a match just completed between GM Yusupov and an advanced version of the Rebel 8 software program

• Kasparov vs Deep Blue in New York between May 1 and May 11 with comments by Kasparov

• The 12th AEGON Computer Chess Tournament from the 16th of April to the 23rd of April 1997.

• The Danish Chess Championsship 1997 in Esbjerg, Denmark.

• 6th International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship, February 19-23, 1997

• The 1997 Linares Chess Tournament at chess.net and life from Spain

Links to single events 1996:

• 35th International chess festival Groningen 1996

• Gran Canaria '96

• From October 11 to October 23 the Fontys Chess Tournament 1996.

• Official Web Site and Olympic Chess Games 1996 at Inside Chess and in Iceland

• FIDE world chess championship with comments from GM Yasser Seirawan and GM Larry Christiansen.

• Information around the Karpov Kamsky match

• Madrid Tournament (XVII Category) May 1996

• Hoogovens tournament 1996

• Kasparov vs Deep Blue

Links to single events 1995:

• Archive of Kasparov-Anand 1995 games commented by GM Seirawan

Chess News

• Deeper in Thought
  Champion Garry Kasparov will soon battle a smarter version of Deep Blue, the IBM computer that spooked him--and mankind--a year ago.

  TIME, March 10, 1997 vol. 149 no. 10

Regional and Personal Chess Pages

Boboy Solero wrote on 9 Sep 1998: Below are the websites I know of top GMs. Mostly they feature games from top tournaments which they themselves annotate. Their annotations are REALLY COOL. (with comments by Arlen P Walker)

• Yasser Seirawan
  This is the home page for Yasser's magazine. IMHO, the highlight is Nikolai Minev's Tactics column. Check out the three-part "Tal at the Sacrificial Altar". It's hi stranslation of an article by Tal. Good Stuff.

• Ron Henley/Karpov
  I'm largely disappointed by this site. It's a commercial site, promoting itself as a store to buy from, and seems to be quite slanted and selective in its coverage.

• Jon Speelman

• Georgi Orlov

More GMs given by Arlen P Walker

• a site devoted to Fischer hero worship. (Seems appropriate to lead off with this one, somehow.)

• one by Gregory Kaidanov.

• a site run for Susan Polgar, current Women's World Champion.

• one by Rashid Ziatdinov

• Yermolinski's Chess Academy.

Richard Reich added Another GM web site

• Peter Leko in German, but leko's notes are in Engliah, with German {!} algebraic notation.

• Chess in Alaska

• Chess page of Kees Aleman

• Maximiliano Alvarez provides a chess page in Argentina

• Bobby Ang's chess homepage with Philippine Chess Scene

• Chess page of Juan Manuel Soto Arrivi

• Chess page of Jim Bach with Annotated Games by Mark Hathaway

• John Bain's Chess For Students, Inc. Home Page

• a public school chess project in Brazil

• The web site of Hubert Beneteau in english and french

• Ralph Betza; Value of chess pieces and won games

• Stefan Bücker and the Kaissiber magazine

• The Campbell Report, the Correspondence Chess Web Site of J. Franklin Campbell

• Canadian Chess Federation

• Chess page of Roberto Carosi

• Chess Corner

• Chess Planet with FIDE Ratings

• Duif's Place: Chess for Fans and Tournament Players

• R. Getsman with conversion tools for different chase base formats

• Chess Links by Goob

• Super Ajedrez, Nro 1 en Hispano America

• Huntsville Chess Club

• Chess in Iceland

• Josef Jaluvka home page

• The Kasparov International Chess School

• Eben de Klerk provides references to South African Chess, especially in the Free State.

• Schachverein SV Lok Königsbrück e.V. provided by Olaf Herzog

• Jerry Lawson , of Burke, VA, long-time editor of "The Woodpushers' Scrapbook" column in the Virginia Chess Newsletter, carries information about developments at his on-line site in "About Chesslinks Worldwide" .

• Ignatius Leong

• Lost Boys Chess Page

• Ralph Marconi's Correspondence Chess Page

• Chess page of Palle Mathiasen

• Chess Mate magazine founded and edited by India's first International Master Manuel Aaron.

• Michigan Chess Association

• Tim Mirabile's Homepage with Chess Links

• SK Münster

• ....for what else exists in the world besides chess? by John Mongle

• Nederlandse rating database

• Chess.net is a FREE interactive chess server

• Chess Links by Harris Nizel

• Schachverband der Oberpfalz

• Chess Oscar

• Yet Another Page Of Chess Links by Stephen Pickles and his chess page

• Tim Philip's Chess Page

• Zsuzsa Polgár

• Michael A. Powe providing the Portland Chess Club and the Paul Keres Web Page

• Steven Pribut's home page and his rec.games.chess FAQ

• Steve Rix chess page

• Russian Chess

• Home page of Sam Sloan and a mirror site with e.g. his chess page, latest chess news, his picture, and newspaper articles on the Kasparov - Deep Blue chess match

• Ed Schroeder's web site

• Spanish chess page

• The GAMBIT page of Dr. med. Thomas Stock

• Tales Of 1001 Knights by S.F.Strahan

• chess page in Greece of Manolis Stratakis with chess problems

• Interesting Chess Links from Manolis Stratakis

  • The Usenet FAQ for Chess

  • Inside Chess

  • Internet Chess Library with FTP

  • University of Pittsburgh Chess Club Page with FTP

  • Mark Crowther's Home Page

  • Hellas Chess Club Home Page

  • 3-Dimensional Chess homepage.

  • The Chess Variants Home Page and Variants page of Chess Space.

  • The Chess Problem of the Month by G. Forslun

  • Yahoo Chess Links

  • Chess Space - A Hierarchical/Searchable Index

• Chess page in Spanish

• Swedish Chess Federation

• Ronald Tagra's Chess Page

• T e l e S c h a c h . de

• Lists of Arlen P. Walker

  • June 1996

  • July 1996

• Western Kentucky University Chess Club in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA

• Let Sean Whalen be your guide for chess on the Net! Including On-Line Chess Library!

• Home page of Rashid Ziatdinov looking at chess as a language

Archives, Magazines, and Organizations

Fach-Vereinigung Schach e.V. im Betriebssportverband Berlin/Brandenburg e.V. (BSVB).

• The Chess Archive with Logical Chess: Move by Move, Best Games, Chess Diagram Construction Utility, Beginner's Page, Chess Problem Server, 5-Piece Endgame Solution Server, Chess Graphics, and more.

• the Chess-L discussion list and its archive

• Where can I copy games by the kinds of gambit? Arlen.P.Walker@JCI.COM says on 21 Jul 1998: Oh, let's see <\br> Blackmar-Diemer Gambits, <\br> http://www.traveller.com/chess/, <\br> Caissa's FTP site, <\br> Steve Mayer's CB archive, <\br> Diemer-Duhm gambits, <\br> and then there's always Pittsburgh.

• The most extensive collection of PGN games is the University of Pittsburgh Chess Archives, lovingly referred to as "Pitt" by most chess players. :-)

• The Week in Chess.

• ChessBase Magazine

• Conn Chess Magazine by Rob Roy

• Deutscher Schachbund e.V. - DSB

• Exeter Chess Club Coaching Page

• Archive of FICS, the Free Internet Chess Server providing e.g. the online chess endgame tablebase

• FIDE

• The Gambit Site

• ICD/Your Move Chess & Games includes Chess Books

• The Chess Cafe with Endgame Studies and Book Reviews

• Inside Chess

• The Amsterdam Chess Club Isolani

• Lubomir Kavalek's Washington Post column He has a couple of puzzles that have more than one solution that he uses to teach elementary students. But the puzzles don't appear elementary.

• Whole Lotta Chess Links provided by Forrest Z. Marler

• University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) with UMBC Chess Club

• J. Mongle

• New in Chess, your link to the chess world, see more details

• onenet with game databases

• ftp archives at pitt.edu for chess with e.g. games from Fischer's 60 Memorable Games book and student chess activities

• Some excellent examples of retrograde analysis

• Russian Chess Engine with 1998 archive

• Russian chess web server

• Southampton University chess club with University Chess Club Magazine

• Stockholms Schacksallskap

• Susan Strahan's archive

• TGT, Thematic Gambit Tournaments. The themes offered are in detail:

  • TGT 1: KG, Muzio Gambit (C 37)
    1.e4 e5 2.f4 ef 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.0-0

  • TGT 2: Elephant Gambit (C 40)
    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5

  • TGT 3: BDG (D00)
    1.d4 d5 2.e4 (transposition to French [2.- e6 not allowed])

  • TGT 4: WRG (C 15)
    1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.a3 Bxc3+ 5.bc de 6.f3

  • TGT 5: Belgrade Gambit (C 47)
    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d4 ed 5.Nd5

  • TGT 6: Marshall Attack (C 89)
    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.c3 d5

  • TGT 7: KG, Falkbeer Counter (C 31-32)
    1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5

  • TGT 8: KG, Alapin's move or "Genutio Counter" (C 34)
    1.e4 e5 2.f4 ef 3.Nf3 f5

  • TGT 9: KG, Wahls Variation (C 30)
    1.e4 e5 2.f4 Nc6 3.Nf3 f5

  • TGT 10: KG, Rosentreter Gambit (C 37)
    1.e4 e5 2.f4 ef 3.Nf3 g5 4.d4

  • TGT 11: Traxler Counter or Wilkes-Barre Variation (C 57)
    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Bc5

  • TGT 12: (Smith-) Morra Gambit (B 21)
    1.e4 c5 2.d4 cd 3.c3

  • TGT 13: Sicilian Wing Gambit (B 20)
    1.e4 c5 2.b4

  • TGT 14: Latvian (C 40)
    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5

  • TGT 15: Goering Gambit (C 44)
    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 ed 4.c3

  • TGT 16: Center Gambit or Nordic Gambit (C 21)
    1.e4 e5 2.d4

  • TGT 17: Palme or Islandic Gambit (B 01)
    1.e4 d5 2.ed Nf6 3. c4 e6

  • TGT 18: Budapest Gambit (A 51)
    1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5

  • TGT 19: Wolga Gambit (A 57-59)
    1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5

  • TGT 20: St. George (A 40, B 00 or C 00)
    1.d4 b5 2.e4 a6 3.c4 e6 4.cb ab 5.Bxb5

  • TGT 21: Englund, Soler, Zilbermint (A 40)
    1.d4 e5

  • TGT 22: Jaenisch (C 63)
    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 f5

  • TGT 23: Orang Utan or Sokolsky (A 00)
    1.b4

  • TGT 24: Evans Gambit (C 51-52)
    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4

  • TGT 25: King's Gambit (C 30-39)
    1.e4 e5 2.f4

  • TGT 26: Fischer's Defence (C 34)
    1.e4 e5 2.f4 ef 3.Nf3 d6

  • TGT 27: Halloween Attack (C 47)
    1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nxe5

• Treasure Valley Chess

• USCF, the United States Chess Federation

• Utrecht Chess Club

• Sean Whalen chess home page

Chess Theory

• ECO codes or here

There is quite a bit of online theory about openings. The best place to visit for any chess theory is the Exeter Chess Club coaching page: http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/coaching.html This is a vast site that provides much information on all phases of the game.

Other sites to visit for basic theory (as well as openings): Chess is Fun! http://www.princeton.edu/~jedwards/cif/intro.html

SmartChess guide to chess: http://www.smartchess.com/

Sites on Opening Theory:

There are a couple of excellent sites for opening theory. The best is Online Openings Library: http://home.earthlink.net/~esuastegui/eschess/openings.html This site uses a Java applet to go through the opening moves, as well as providing commentary. Over 500 different openings are archived.

Another good site is MECCA: Chess Encyclopedia - Openings: http://www.serve.com/maskeret/mecca/openings.htm This site is what the Chess Openings Library is based on. A good selection of openings, but no graphical viewer, and no commentary.

Chess Analysis Online: http://www.chessworks.com/analysis/analysis.htm This is provided by NM Eric Schiller, and contains a large selection of analyzed unorthodox openings.

Diemer-Duhm Gambit pages: http://www.funet.fi/pub/doc/games/chess/ddg/ This site provides very in-depth analysis of this gambit that arises from the French opening.

These should be enough to get you started! Enjoy!

Sean Whalen

Let me be your guide for chess on the Net! http://chess.miningco.com
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"The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made." -Tartakower

Chess Players and Biographies

• The Keres-Botvinnik Case

• Obituary of chess grandmaster Miguel Najdorf, as published in The New York Times on July 17, 1997, page B10.

Computer and Chess

• Macintosh Chess FAQ

• man versus machine

• Tasc ChessSystem, Intelligent Computer Chess Products

Chess Software and Tools

• Archive of shareware programs at PITT

• ChessBase for Windows and Demos

• HyperNetwork CHESS ($25 U.S.) from PICA is a Macintosh HyperCard based chess program and chess database that also allows play via modem or AppleTalk network.

• pgn standard provided by Stephen Pribut

• USCF Ratings Calculator

• SAN Kit: Implemented Standards for Chess Move Notation

  The SAN Kit is a freeware ANSI C source programming toolkit for chess software authors and researchers. It consists of some twelve thousand lines of portable code that includes everything needed to write a chess-playing program except a search function and an evaluation function. A set of public, portable standards for move notation (SAN), position notation (FEN), and game notation are described and implemented.

• SmartChess a chess tool for the Macintosh. You can get e.g. The SmartChess Reader (latest version 4.3) a free demo version of SmartChess that you can use as PGN Viewer/Reader (can also read ChessBase format) and as interface to fics or icc.

             From: Fabian Maeser 
             Sender: The Chess Discussion List 
             Subject:      *** NEW: The SmartChess Homepage ***
             Date:         Fri, 10 Nov 1995 14:28:54 -0100
             

• ChessTutor by Eduardo Suastegui

Playing Chess Online

Consider telnet
to "chess.net " (or xboard -size medium -ics -icshost chess.net)
or to "Dutch Internet Chess Server" (or xboard -size medium -ics -icshost dics.dds.nl)
or to "Free Internet Chess Server" (or xboard -size medium -ics -icshost fics.onenet.net).

• chess.net

• Chess by Email

• Internet Chess Club

Chess Bibliographies

You might order books off of the internet. Some places to do that at are ChessCo , Chess Digest , Powells (good for used and remaindered books) , Barnes and Noble , and Bibliofind . See also Online Chess Book Store (In Association with Amazon.com)

• Chess Digest Dave's Dfinitive Reviews by Dave Maloney

• By Ignacio Marin at stanford.edu with e.g. "Winning with the French" by W. Uhlmann

• Book Reviews by IM Jeremy Silman

Chess School

• Chess Endings Library (alternate server) provided by Huntsville Chess Club ( archive)

• WISChess '97 International is the third annual Whitewater Instructional Summer Chess Camp, a week of intensive instruction and chess-related activities, featuring some of the premier players and teachers in the world. WISChess is designed for chess players of all strengths and levels of experience ages 10 to adult who want to improve their game while enjoying the company of fellow chess enthusiasts. Players under the age of 10 are welcome to attend with an adult escort. Campers and instructors will live, eat, study and play together on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in the beautiful Kettle-Moraine region of southeastern Wisconsin. WISChess '97 runs from the afternoon of Sunday, July 20th to the afternoon of Friday, July 25th, 1997.

• Logical Chess: Move by Move

Chess Puzzles

• 8 Queens demo implemented as an example of CCM (chemical casting model)

Chess Material and Suppliers

• Jürgen Daniel Schach - Verlag - Vertrieb - Veranstaltungen

• USCF's GameTime(tm) Clock

Chess Variants and Related Games

• Avalanche Chess

• Colorbound Clobberers with The Colorbound Clobberers versus the FIDEs -- First ever, The FIDEs versus the Colorbound Clobberers -- First ever

• Information about shogi (Japanese chess) or here

• Thai chess

People with Chess Related Interests

• Juan Manuel Soto Arrivi

• Fabian Mäser, Institut für Theoretische Informatik
  Projects and Research Interests

  • Combinatorical Game Theory (and its application to chess)

  • Retrograde Analysis

  • Game Tree Search

  • Parallel Algorithms

  • The 15-Puzzle

  • Smart Chess

• Forrest Z. Marler includes Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive, Huntsville Chess Club, and Whole Lotta Chess Links

• Manolis Stratakis

• Mario Velucchi

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Contents: Tournaments, News, Regional and Personal Chess Pages, Archives, Magazines, and Organizations, Theory, Players and Biographies, Computer and Chess, Software and Tools, Playing Chess Online, Bibliographies, School, Puzzles, Material and Suppliers, Chess Variants and Related Games, People with Chess Related Interests