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A Discarded Chess Opening

chesscentral — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:51:02 +0000

Chess on Reality TV

chesscentral — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:34:16 +0000

The game of chess has seen a number of attempts to make it on television, the best being The Master Game which ran on BBC from 1976 to 1982. Good, solid chess entertainment and instruction. Today we learn of a new TV series called American Chess Star featuring chess bitch Jennifer Shahade among others – [...]

ChessCentral’s Free Chess Area

chesscentral — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:06:10 +0000

One of the great things about chess is is the amount of free online chess that’s available to anyone. ChessCentral has always been at the front of free chess for all – see the Chess Exchange our free online forum and our extensive online Chess KnowledgeBase of tips and helps for chess players. Even the [...]

Wilhelm Steinitz

chesscentral — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:06:28 +0000

The first world chess champion is generally seen as the first scientific chess player, and is often called the father of modern chess. Steinitz put down in writing and formulated chess principles that the best players had always employed, even if unconsciously, in their own chess games. The guidelines found in modern chess manuals can [...]

Fritz 13 ‘s “Let’s Check” Videos

chesscentral — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:16:33 +0000

Let’s imagine the realm of chess as a world of its own. How much of this world have we discovered already? Actually, no one can answer this question precisely. Probably less than we believe. We know some elementary endgames quite precisely, and some of them we can only evaluate correctly with the help of the [...]

Everyman E-book App for iPad

chesscentral — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:49:11 +0000

Have an iPAD? Now you can read Everyman chess e-books and enjoy the same interactivity as you do on your PC. Featuring a full iPad landscape and portrait support, search with autocomplete, support for zip files and full eBook store with inApp purchasing. When you launch your app you will see your book list, which [...]

Mike Barton Memorial: A Tribute to a Good Chess Friend

chesscentral — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:05:33 +0000

By Gary M. Pylant On August 20, 2011 38 chess players met at the Greater Memphis Chess Center to honor Mike Barton. Graham Horobetz won the event on tie breaks over Kenneth Turner. The format of the tournament was originally two sections: Game in 60 and Game in 30, but the players elected to play [...]

Play Chess Opening Gambits

chesscentral — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:40:40 +0000

If we play a chess opening gambit there’s no going back. The permanent loss of a pawn is serious and the deficit has to be made up in other ways – speedy development, open attacking lines, weakness in the enemy camp. The advantages of playing chess gambits are many, and the King’s Gambit, the Evans [...]

100′s of New Chess Sets

chesscentral — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:45:54 +0000

ChessCentral is proud to announce it’s expansion of its chess set, chess pieces, and chess board product line. ChessCentral offers a huge selection in chess sets and chess pieces, from inexpensive plastic chess pieces to complete chess sets of fine wood chessmen with wooden chess boards. You can get plastic chess pieces alone, for example, [...]

The Value of Chess Pieces

chesscentral — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 22:18:59 +0000

If you’re going to play a chess game you can hardly avoid trading one piece for another. In fact, as the game progresses you’ll exchange many pawns and pieces until the endgame is reached, when very few chessmen remain on the board. Therefore we have to know when a trade is good for us, and [...]