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Exeter Club Championship & Rapidplay Tournament 2011-2012

Wed, 02/05/2012 - 23:13

Last updated: see date stamp

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Exeter & District League - Results 2011/12

Mon, 02/04/2012 - 01:15

League results (updated 04/04/2012)

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Vukovic's mates

Sat, 31/03/2012 - 21:34

Kriegspiel

Fri, 23/03/2012 - 22:42

Kriegspiel is a great game for three people and an audience. The audience has the most fun. It's like a cross between chess and battleships.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28game%29

You're White, you have a chessboard and a set of chess pieces, your opponent has their own chessboard and pieces and plays black. You sit back to back. An umpire lets you know when your opponent has moved, if there is a capture or a check, and keeps a score. And that's more or less it!

http://www.chessvariants.org/incinf.dir/kriegspiel.html

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Dr.Dave's Further Adventures at East Devon

Fri, 09/03/2012 - 23:22
East Devon Congress, Open Section, 2007

Four games and no wins is so-so, but the blunder count was reassuringly
low, and I had a good attempt at winning a couple of games, including
the one against Helbig, who was the strongest player I faced. So,
progress of sorts.

{Wretchedly got a bye in the first round. Both players were careless of their
pawns in this game!}

[pgn autoplaymode=none]
[Event "East Devon"]
[Site "Exeter"]
[Date "2007.02.24"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Regis, D."]
[Black "Cordner, D."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C01"]
[PlyCount "82"]

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Emailing games from Fritz 5

Sat, 25/02/2012 - 11:48

There is a free version of ChessBase's Fritz programme available:

http://freechess.50webs.com/fritz.html

Once you have saved one or a bunch of games, you might want to send them to someone. This is how:

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Chess Quotes

"Whereas the tactician knows what to do when there is something to do, it requires the strategian to know what to do when there is nothing to do"
— Gerald ABRAHAMS (this seems to be fairly free translation of one of TARTAKOVER's aphorisms).