Chess Teacher on February 4th, 2008

This is an old, but very illustrative game that shows how to take care of a development advantage and some mistakes of your opponent.

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Chess Teacher on December 18th, 2007

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 [...]

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Chess Teacher on December 13th, 2007

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 [...]

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Chess Teacher on December 12th, 2007

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 [...]

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Chess Teacher on December 11th, 2007

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 [...]

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