To finish off the look of your living room or impress the folks at the chess club, why not a Roman theme chess set? These roman chess sets are sure to fit into almost any place, and lend an air of polish with their ancient themes and great looks. Powerful and famous rulers will wander […]
In chess games where players use time control, adjacent game clocks (consisting of two buttons) may be used. One button stops the clock and the other starts the timer. These buttons prevent the clocks from simultaneously running. The clocks can either be digital or analog. Before the game starts, the arbiter has to decide which […]
The Dragon Variation is the Sicilian in its most natural and logical form. Black develops his pieces on their most active squares. In particular, the ‘Dragon bishop‘ is fianchettoed on the long diagonal, down which it exerts its significant presence. Sicilian Dragon Opening How To Play The Sicilian Dragon The Sicilian Dragon begins with […]
Do you want to know how to win at chess? Well you’ve came to the right article. To win at chess you must first develop a correct thinking system; one which is adapted by many elite chess players including FMs and grandmasters. There is a path that must be taken in order to improve and […]
Garry Kasparov vs Deep Blue: Although chess engines running on high end home computer hardware had been able to defeat all but the world’s top echelon of chess players for a couple of years by the start of 1996 (and, even on average hardware, had been able to defeat club players for even longer), many […]
In order to play chess like a grandmaster, you first have to develop a system of thinking. Most grandmasters have a sophisticated thought process. In fact, this same thought process is commonly used by the massive of so called super gm’s. It involves two things: Progressive Thinking Reciprocal Thinking As you read further along, […]
Some articles and resources about computer chess go to great lengths in discussing Internet chess sites, places where you can play chess online. This article, however, won’t be one of them. This omission is deliberate, as online play at its core isn’t terribly different from face to face chess. Subtract the players’ faces, substitute a 2D representation of […]
If you want to know how to get better at chess, then you’ve came to the right article. For many years, the great American grandmaster Larry Evans wrote a very popular column in Chess Life magazine. I remember a time when I was reading his column (in which he answered some letters from readers) and […]
The DGT 2010 is the official FIDE chess clock, approved and recommended by the International Chess Federation FIDE. It is in full accordance with the FIDE rules and regulations for chess clocks and with the Laws of Chess. It can be used for all 2-player games such as chess, go, draughts, shogi, Scrabble and many, many […]
This DGT North American Chess Clock has been designed to be used as a game clock for various two-person board games, especially Chess, Go and Draughts. This gaming device has several features which makes it an all-in-one digital clock and one of the best on the market. The features of DGT NA include: 10 different […]