If you are still using the 110mb url to navigate to this site then please, update your bookmarks. Last months there were a lot of problems with the host, but we succeeded to create a backup on Google Sites.
In the future Chess Teacher Lessons may continue to use Google Sites or a site that enables us to use WordPress, but as long as you use the ChessTeacherLessons.com domain to bookmark your lessons you will always be redirected to the right and most frequently updated version.
Some time ago I promised in the comments to write something about the Caro-Kann. This post shows seven traps in the Caro-Kann with 4.Nxe4. When looking at these traps you’ll probably recognize some of the same themes. Some of the mating patterns are very similar.
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1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 We will have a look at some traps in the Caro-Kann with 4.Nxe4, for both White and Black. 4... Nd7
( 6.N1e2 e6 7.Nf4 Qc7 8.h4 Bd6 9.Qf3 Bxc2 10.Qg4 Qa5+ 11.Bd2 Bb4 12.Qxg7? Bxd2+ 13.Ke2 Bxf4 14.Qxh8 Kf8 15.Nh5?? Qxh5+ 0-1 )
6… h6 7.Nf3 Nd7 8.h5 Bh7 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 e6 11.Bd2 Ngf6 12.O-O-O Be7 13.Qe2 c5 14.dxc5 Qc7 15.Ne4 Nxe4 16.Qxe4 Nxc5 17.Qe5?? Nd3+ 0-1 )
5.Qe2
Did you like these traps? Then you will probably also enjoy the other traps on this site. Or you may prefer to read some of the other chess lessons.
During the last weeks the site has been down for some time, but even when this site is down it will be possible to read all the chess lessons, other posts and doing all the chess exercises on this site by just adding the www in front of the url. This will be possible for (almost) all posts on this site.
I am even thinking about moving this site completely to this Google Sites backup site. What do you think? Just have a look at Www.ChessTeacherlessons.com and let me know.
About a month ago version 0.8 of ChessX has been released, so the development of ChessX seems to continue. However most of the improvements are bugfixes, though the graphic interface has also been simplified for the user. Adding an engine for analysis is easier than ever, and now it has become possible to visualize other variations besides the main line.
This new release still doesn’t have a Native Database Format that is probably needed to make it usable with large databases as mentioned in our ChessX 0.6 post, but it may be a very interesting multi platform alternative if you only want to store your own games.
I’ll hope you enjoy these days and I wish you a Happy New Year