Chess Teaching Archives

ChessDB Opening report

As mentioned before ChessDB can be used to generate opening reports. This post gives only a first indication of the power of this functionality.
I turned off almost all the report sections, but if you generate the report by yourself you can adjust the report in such a way that it shows the information that interests [...]

TWIC and ICOfY

As mentioned in the previous post we are going to need a large database of chess games.
Where can be found such a database? I’ll mention some possibilities in this post.
Downloading by means of ChessDB
Within the Tools menu of ChessDB a “Download Games from …” option is offered to download a database of 100,000 games in [...]

ChessDB

In order to improve your chess game it will be better to analyze your own games and learning how you can create your own chess lessons. This may be the most important chess lessons: learning how to create your own chess material.
For the creation of this chess material we will need some tools and one [...]

Connected vs split pawns ending

In this chess lesson we are going to combine some of the knowledge of the key squares, the square rule and the square rule for two separated pawns.
First have look at the diagram on the left site.
It’s a draw. Can you see why?
And do you see that the game is won by White if the [...]