Chess Teaching Archives

Scid, ChessDB and ChessX

In some of my previous posts I have mentioned the ChessDB chess database program, but you may also want to use one of the other free available chess databases.
Scid (Shane’s Chess Information Database) was written by Shane Hudson. He started Scid in 1999, but the development stopped in 2004.
December 2006 the development of Scid continued [...]

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 [...]

Online Nalimov Endgame Tablebases

If you are looking for a place to study some difficult endgames the following may be of interest to you.
Using the applet on the Knowledge4IT site all of the currently published Nalimov Tablebases can be queried online (incl. 6-men databases). On this Web Query page you are able to check some of these sometimes very [...]