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Chess Sets - The ultimate chess set in the humble opinion of ChessBaron - the design that is the beez neez of chess design and stunning in it's presence - ebony, triple weighted, double quuens, wonderful

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I mean, a website dedicated to chess matches between programs (everyone uses a program to play). I would like a website like this since it would help me to know if my chess program is good or not.

http://www.playchess.de/
With this website you can play in tournaments or single games where the use of a program to assist you is allowed. There are other options available so make sure you chose the right one.

http://loirechecs.chez-alice.fr/chesswar/
And this one, which takes out the human element. You don't play using a chess program, the program plays for itself. Not easy to set up unless you know what you are doing.

Chess Strategies For A Winning Game
By Lee Dobbins

Chess is often thought of as a complex game, but can really be easily learned. The key to becoming a better player is to never get stuck on one level of play. Always be adding to your game by learning and trying new strategies. Here’s a few tips to start you off.

What’s A Good First Move?

Want to get the most freedom of your pieces right off the bat? Move the pawn in front of your king forward. While this may seem like it is leaving the king in a vulnerable position, it is also freeing up the queen and bishop to wreak havoc on your opponent!

Get Them In Checkmate In Just 4 Moves

In this series of moves, the bishop and queen are used to get your opponent into checkmate in just 4 moves. For your first move, move the pawn in front of the queen forward by 2 spaces. Your opponents move is next. Then move the bishop diagonal 3 spaces. After the next turn of your opponent, move your queen to the diagonal 2 spaces and let it sit in front of the pawn. Now, depending on your opponents next move, you can zip the queen straight up to his pawn, capture it and get the king in checkmate! Then king cannot capture the queen as he will then be captured by your bishop, he cannot move away from the queen as he is blocked by his own pieces.

Sacrificing Pieces

While nobody likes to lose a key piece, there are times, however when it makes sense to sacrifice one of your pieces. If an opponent’s piece is taking up a spot that you need open, putting one of your pieces in a position to lure his piece out to capture you is one way to move your game forward. Since you will be losing a piece, be sure to check the board carefully to make sure this really will result in the move you wanted!

Put Your Pieces In Play

The pieces in your back row are key to winning the game so you must move them out at first chance. At first you may reluctant to use your more powerful pieces for fear that they will be captured. Put them into play! The sooner you get those pieces out the sooner you will be able to invoke a strategy that will result in checkmate!

Lee Dobbins writes for many websites including Chess Moves.info where you can learn more about the game of chess.

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Chess is one of the greatest traditional board games you will ever play. The beauty of chess is the almost endless level of skill and strategy that you can employ as you climb the ranks and face increasingly skilled adversaries.

Irrespective of your age or skill level, you can find opponents to play and challenges to face. It truly is a game for all ages.

Of course, as a newcomer, you'll find it hard to play chess with other players, especially as you're starting to absorb the elementary moves. What you can do is practice on an electronic opponent until you learn the basic moves. There are numerous online services or computer-based games that you can try to increase your skill level.

Personally, I very much prefer a three-dimensional layout, so I usually play on a chess game computer when I want to play by myself. There are many competent electronic chessboards that can increase in difficulty level as you improve, which is an advantage that they hold; and they also work as an objective measure of your skill level at the game. Quite a few boards will even calculate a ranking for you based on your rate of play and how skilled your moves are.

As you begin to play against these computerized competitors, your goal is to learn the board, learn the assorted moves of each chess piece, and learn the basic defense and attack strategies.

Once you've conquered the basic movements of the pieces, and you can build move sequences without saying to yourself "okay, one square up and two squares to the left," you're ready to move on to a real player.

So find yourself a cheap chess board games, get another novice, and start playing one of the world's oldest and best games.

The endless possibilites in game play make chess a great game choice for the whole family.

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Part 1 of 10: Review of Tigris and Euphrates board game and interview with its designer, Reiner Knizia.

Do you like games like Monopoly, Risk, Stratego, Dungeons and Dragons, chess, checkers, uno, battleship and connect four? If so the Board Room will introduce you to a whole new crop of advanced games that you may not have heard of before. Learn to play them, learn about how they were designed and pick up tips and tricks on winning them.

Reiner Knizia designed such games as Through the Desert, Taj Mahal, Amun-Re and Kingdoms. Bob Schwartz and the Board Room were very honored to do a multi-part interview with him in the year 2000.

This multi-part interview provides valuable insight into the designer and his games.

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Learn how to setup the pieces on a chess board to play a game from a chess master in this free board game video.

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Chess Computers Electronic Games Digital Boards Sets Advanced Travel Chess Computer CH04 Expert Travel Chess Computer CH06 Novag Star Ruby 1023 Kingmaster III 911E-3 Mephisto Talking Chess Trainer CT04 Chess Explorer CT09 Ivan II 712 King Arthur Deluxe 915W Chess Challenger CT05 Mephisto Talking Chess Academy CT06 Excalibur Grandmaster 747K Mephisto Master CT07 Novag Citrine Model 1032 DGT Excalibur Fidelity Mephisto Novag Saitek

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http://homepage.eircom.net/~reidr1/index.html

http://www.banaschak.net/pdf/thechessofchina.pdf

When I lived in the Republic of China, the Chinese taught me how to play "syang chi" -- Chinese Chess. What an amazing game! 5,000 years old and still the best game around! Especially the short board version.

The Chinese actually have two versions, the long board, which is like our Chess, and the short board which is my favorite since a game can be played in 10 to 15 minutes.

This link explains the origins, the pieces and strategy.

To share this game with Americans, I used a label gun and ranked the pieces, and put each number ranking so that people can tell by the number.
(i.e, 1=king killer,
2J=the jumper,
3= horse,
4=chariot,
5=elephant,
6=warrior,
K=king).

I have other sets of the game that don't have the numbers on them which a lot of people enjoy playing.

If you find any great syanchi sites--or that better fit your needs, please email me at:
hunter621@yahoo.com

I have taught this game to dozens of people and they love it! I am a counselor and many of the teens had counseling--but I can teach them ancient game that no one else can comprehend and not only do the teens learn it quickly they accept me as a counselor!!