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Solitaire Chess

Mon, 26/03/2012 - 11:47pm — DrDave
Visiting the hospital recently I spotted a nice new game. You'll know the game Solitaire, where you reduce a set of pegs by capturing to a single survivor.(Peg Solitaire to the Yanks [what they call Solitaire, played with cards, we call Patience]). http://www.web-games-online.com/peg-solitaire/ ThinkFun have produced a chess version, available as a physical set, or a mobile phone app that you can try for free. http://www.thinkfun.com/solitairechess

Kriegspiel

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.br / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28game%29

Mate in Two

Fri, 09/03/2012 - 9:53pm — DrDave

Oliver and Leo had a go at this one, a favourite of mine:

Exeter Juniors 2-3 Torquay Boys' Grammar School

Wed, 29/02/2012 - 11:41am — DrDave

A well-fought match which could have gone either way, with lots of good ideas shown by the players. I think in most games the advantage changed hands a couple of times - exciting stuff!

I've added the PGN file so you can play through the games and variations on your own computer.

Emailing games from Fritz 5

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:

Updated 'First repertoire' materials

Thu, 26/01/2012 - 9:30pm — DrDave

Kevin Hurst has kindly been through the one-stop starter repertoire booklet and found a few errors, mostly small but one was absolutely colossal.

Updated files:
http://exeterchessclub.org.uk/chessx/ftp/JuniorRepertoire.pdf
http://exeterchessclub.org.uk/chessx/pgn/juniorep.pgn

Junior Openings - Beginners and Improvers

Basic Opening Repertoire for young players

You want a standard opening to learn? Here is my suggestion:

System for White Scotch Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exe4 4.Bc4

When Black avoids your main system IQP systems 1.e4 c5 2.c3 & d4

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.c4

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4

System for Black against 1.e4 French Defence 1.e4 e6

System for Black against 1.d4 Tarrasch Defence 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5

EJCC 2-2 Newton Abbot Juniors 16th Dec 2011

Fri, 23/12/2011 - 10:19pm — DrDave

One of the best and best-contested matches I've had the pleasure to watch. Well done to all players!

W Royle ½-½ Fraser B Trott ½-½ Whitehead W Keat 1-0 Ramesh B Terrill 0-1 Chornenkyy

A tough game fought in the jungles of a hypermodern opening, in the end Black's exchange was enough to balance an advanced passed pawn - or maybe the other way around!

Christmas Card puzzle 2011

Tue, 20/12/2011 - 9:35pm — DrDave
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What do I do with my old score sheets?

What do I do with my old score sheets?

version:

Enter the games on the computer and do something with them, like find other games with the same opening, or get a computer to suggest better moves.  In Windows XP, you can do all that for free using Fritz 5.32. 

List of free software for Windows: http://freechess.50webs.com/index.html
List of software for Macs:

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