Friday 4 December 2009

Harry Potter Wizard's Chess

Saturday 7 November 2009

Wednesday 4 November 2009

A Safe Opening For White

Click on Next to follow the first five moves of the King's Indian Attack

Wednesday 5 August 2009

Portable Games Notation and all that ...

Portable Games Notation (PGN) is a way of recording chess games so that computers can replay them.

Some other chess sites include PGN chess games which you can click through. If you want to do that for yourself then you can find out how at the Cassia's Web PGN editor page.

It is a good idea to look at the Video Tutorial to find out how to to use it. As well as recording games you can make your own chess puzzles.

Chris

Saturday 1 August 2009

Gary Kasparov: Making Mistakes in Chess


Even world champions make mistakes so never give up!

Wednesday 29 July 2009

How fast can you play chess?

Watch some chess masters playing at top speed

Monday 13 July 2009

The Rugby Chess Club blog

This is not the only new chess blog on the block. There is also one for the oldies at Rugby Chess Club and there is some interesting stuff there.

For those of you who would like to learn how to make computer animations of your games there is some advice there about how to make a game in Portable Games Notation. You can save this onto your computer as an animated gif or as a PGN file and embed it into an email to your friends. Or if you ask Sue about becoming a member of this blog you can add it in here.

Monday 22 June 2009

The Scotch Opening

The Scotch Opening is one that Bob Wildig says would be suitable for juniors to learn to play. Click on the arrow in the chessboard picture below and it will play a video of this opening with a voice over explaining it (so you need sound switched on too).



Sue and Bob, and perhaps other experienced players too, will suggest other openings, defences and chess tip videos that we will also share here from time to time. Look out for them. If you find a good video or tip yourself then ask Sue to post it in here.

About this blog

This is the webpage for Rugby Junior Chess Club. If you are a member of the club you will be able to post messages and comments here, but anyone is welcome to look.

If you would like to join our club email Sue Sanders