Chess Teaching

The Generic Thought Process of Chess

2011-10-29T06:21:00.000-07:00

The principles of looking for checks, captures, and threats are described very well by Dan Heisman in A Generic Thought Process on Chess Cafe. This document as well as the other documents from the archives of Chess Cafe are very useful sources of information for chess teachers.

The Blue Book of Chess

2011-06-11T08:29:00.000-07:00

The Blue Book of Chess Teaching is one of the free chess books made available by Project Gutenberg. It teaches the Rudiments of the Game, and gives an analysis of all the Recognized Openings.
The book os based on Staunton's "Chess Player's Handbook;" but other standard books have been drawn upon to fit it to be a manual for the beginner of to-day.
It can be downloaded here.

By playing over carefully the illustrative games, the learner will also see, at each opening, the variations made by experienced players in accordance with circumstances. As great a variety of actually played games has been given as was possible in a work of such limited scope. To this end the games of the distinguished players of different nations have been introduced, classified according to the different openings; and thus the reader will find the combined genius and skill of the old heroes like Philidor, Morphy, Staunton, Anderssen, Harrwitz, Evans, Montgomery and Cochrane, together with such recent masters as Lasker, Steinitz, Schlechter, Pillsbury, Marshall, Tarrasch, Janowsky, Tchigorin, and many other players of world-wide celebrity.

New Chess Publishing Method

2009-10-02T10:26:00.000-07:00

It seems that Chess Publishing has found a new method for the publishing of chess games on all kid of blogsites (including blogspot/blogger) without the use (and dependency) on other sites. The method is based on Palview. If you are interested in the publishing of chess games on your own blog you may find this very interesting. This is the link to the first example game.

Chess Teaching Manual

2009-09-19T02:50:00.000-07:00

One of the most interesting books about how to teach chess is the manual written by International Master Tom O'Donnell and produced by the Chess Federation of Canada.

The purpose of this manual, that can be downloaded here, is to encourage the playing of chess by young people. It is not necessary for the teacher using this manual to be a good chess player. He even doesn't have to be a chess player at all.

The manual is mainly intended to learn chess to beginners, but also contains information about running a chess tournament.

Free Internet Chess Server

2009-09-16T11:43:00.000-07:00

The Free Internet Chess Server, with over 300000 registered users, is one of the oldest and one of the largest internet chess servers. Here you can play chess over the internet for free. FICS has a lot of possibilities You can play against other players, below or above a specific rating, blitz or long games. The choice is yours.

Chess Teaching will continue

2009-09-13T10:59:00.000-07:00

Chess Teaching is going to continue, but as you an see I am currently busy with updating and adapting the theme.

Street Chess by ocadotony, Creative Commons

Chess Publishing has been moved

2009-09-01T09:31:00.000-07:00

Chess Publishing has been moved to the new address ChessPublishing.blogspot.com.

This site will continue later, but not about the publishing of chess diagrams and chess games. This site is just about teaching chess.

Please update your bookmarks if you were looking for the articles about chess publishing.

Free Chess Lessons

2009-08-30T10:35:00.000-07:00

If you are searching for chess lessons you may have a look at free chess lessons.

Sunday morning Chess by Mukumbura
All sizes of this photo are available for download under a Creative Commons license.