Chess Teaching Archives

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year

 
I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
This year a lot of chess lessons have been added to this site. You can get a quick overview by looking at the static page Chess Lessons and from each lesson it is possible to navigate to the next or previous [...]

How not to play the … ?

During the previous lessons we have created some opening reports as well as an opening analysis of the Lolli attack. We have done this while learning how to use a chess database in general and ChessDB in particular. But by creating this opening analysis we are looking for the good games, in fact almost always [...]

A new Opening Report

As you have seen in the previous post one of the most important steps in writing an opening analysis is to select some of the most representative games. But instead of merging the into one game you can also load the games and copy them to the clipboard enabling you to add them to your [...]

The Lolli Attack

This purpose of this post is to show you the result of the opening’s analysis of our previous lesson. This is one of the reasons that all the moves are taken from the ICOfY database instead of my own database.
The result is an Opening analysis of the Lolli Attack. You can compare it with the [...]

How to create an opening analysis?

This lesson is based on the use of ChessDB, but for other Database programs similar approaches can be used. I suppose that in the future some tutorials will be added to the ChessDB site, so make sure that you also check this site.
I will give a very short explanation and you probably need the program [...]