Dr.Dave's Chess Lists

Please don't hold me to these, I will change my mind tomorrow...nbsp; and I know the Hon Menshes are cheating, I saw no reason to obey my own rules about doing batches of ten.

Junior web pages

You can now find all the web pages that are for young players listed on one page:

http://exeterchessclub.org.uk/junior-pages

You might also get something out of material designed for adults in class D

Play through PGN collections

The selected PGN file [What's PGN?] from a dropdown menu will be shown in the inline frame underneath
Hover mouse over board squares to see extra controls e.g. b2 = toggle autoplay, b5 = search, f3 = next game, f8 = shortcuts help
See separate page for Canon PGN with index.

Play Shogi (Japanese Chess)

This is Gene Davis's rather wonderful free Shogi (Japanese Chess) Java applet.
Choose 'Western' from the tokens menu if you don't read Japanese.

This Shogi game will only work if Java and the Java plug-in are installed. They are free at www.java.com

PDF versions of handouts

Maintained elsewhere: http://franosch.org/chess/index.html

The Eight Queens Problem

Place eight queens on the chessboard without any being able to attack/defend any others

Click on an open square to place a queen. Click on a queen to remove it from the table.

Castling

From info!dregis Wed Jan 29 13:41:21 GMT 1997
Article: 16115 of rec.games.chess.misc
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.misc
Path: info!dregis
From: dregis@exeter.ac.uk (D.Regis)
Subject: HELP PLEASE: Unusual castlings
Message-ID: 
Organization: University of Exeter, UK.
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 12:31:18 GMT

I'm compiling a piece about castling and found a couple of nice
examples in a book by Pfleger and Treppner.  They gave only positions
and I wondered if anyone has a genuine whole game scores for a game

Doskey


Bishops Puzzle: 

I hope you will forgive my algebraic notation, but I found it easier
to read (since we know every move is a bishop).

White bishops start at b1 and d1, 
Black bishops start at b5 and d5.

01. b1-c2
02. d5-a2
03. b5-c4
04. c2-a4
05. a2-b1
06. c4-d3
07. a4-b3
08. b3-d5
09. d3-b5 (board is symmetrical)
10. b1-d3
11. d1-b3
12. b3-a2
13. d3-c2
14. b5-a4
15. a2-c4
16. c2-b1
17. a4-d1
18. c4-b5

This was not the first solution that I found, but I liked it because
it was symmetrical.  Once you get to step 9 you are basically