Chess Teaching Archives

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 [...]

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 [...]