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Chess Problems

Kattullus — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:03:58 -0800

Chess Problems has hundreds of problems in six difficulty classes from novice to fiendish [java]

Chess tactics explained in plain English

Rumple — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:53:52 -0800

A Field Guide to Chess Tactics. Chess tactics explained in plain English, with hundreds of examples. A great site for beginning to mid-level players. Includes a large library of positional problems, organized thematically, with the solutions explained and discussed. For example, learn about knight forks, then quiz yourself on the same topic.

Grob spike-attack, Santasiere's folly, and the vulture defense

blahblahblah — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:43:34 -0800

Chess has a long, if somewhat shrouded, history, with beautiful chess pieces found dating from the 5th century. It has spawned hundreds of fascinating stories, and many interesting names for moves. For the last five decades, the history of chess and computers have been intertwined in many ways. Chess continues to adapt to a new age, with controversies around computer-assisted cheating, attempts to sex-up chess books, thousands of variants, and an amazing online database that can search through recorded games for the last 200 years.

Variations on a theme

tepidmonkey — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 17:17:13 -0800

If you're bored with the kind of chess grandpappy taught you, know there are well over 1,000 other ways to do it. Play chess on a Moebius strip, with hexagons, or like Monopoly. Or play Chaturanga, chess's earliest ancestor. And if you don't have the time to, say, build your own 3-D Star Trek chessboard, there are also variations playable with a standard chess set.

The games people play

letourneau — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 05:41:05 -0800

Perhaps it says something about the intellectual sophistication of ancient cultures that some of the most entertaining games in existence are thousands of years old: backgammon, Go, mancala... The now-ubiquitous chess is a relative newcomer, dating back merely 1400 years. One wonders whether Boggle or Monopoly will withstand the test of time so well.

Steven Den Beste — Wed, 09 May 2001 12:05:08 -0800

Go is better than Chess. (This discussion started in MetaTalk through topic drift, and it really belongs here.)