The best way to improve your chess game is to start improving your tactical skills and to learn the principles of endgame and opening play. Despite of the fact that most beginners start by studying opening moves this hardly contributes to a better understanding of the game.
Understanding a chess opening means that you are able [...]
At this place a new chess problem has been presented to you during each visit. The purpose of these chess diagrams was to improve your chess skills.
But there were two problems with these diagrams. First of all it takes a lot of bandwidth, because for each visit the site has to be changed. And secondly [...]
The WordPress Theme has been changed, because of the fact that the lay-out of ordered and unordered lists in the Painted Desert theme was rather awkward.
We are now using Connections for the time being.
The first version of the Show-fen plugin for WordPress is finished.
It is based on the code for SPHPBlog that can be downloaded at Schaakpraat and can be used to display chess diagrams by only inserting the FEN string within the <fen> and </fen> tags. The circle at the upper right corner is used to indicate [...]
For the moment we use an adapted version of the painted desert theme but we plan to use our own theme after some time.
We like the theme, but it is not very chess related and the static pages seem to have disappeared.
