Saturday, December 16, 2023

Chessboard Displays

 A recent game against the Chess.com computer Komodo on level 10. Four different displays. Which is your favorite? Have another you recommend? These websites generate the HTML to display on a webpage. It's just cut and paste to put them on your site.

Chess.com



LiChess



Chessbase




GameKnot - A game played on their site.


Tuesday, December 12, 2023

MERRY CHRISTMAS HAPPY HOLLIDAYS

 


MERRY CHRISTMAS HAPPY HOLLIDAYS

For a great deal on Fritz 19 goto The Chess House!


Saturday, December 9, 2023

GameKnot Review


Gameknot is a Chess Playing Website. At first it seems kind of antiquated.

What it lacks in modern polish it seems to make up for in it's people. A game with 3 day time controls finished in a week. The players are there to play! Plus the website is very much in service of the game. Lots of study aids. Openings, puzzles, a searchable 1.6 million game database. They provide code and links for other web / blog developers. The ads are annoying but hey everyone has bills to pay.


Here is the result of the puzzle of the day code they provided.


Monday, August 21, 2023

MANIAC

An article from Los Alamos labs about the use of chess in computer development.

MANIAC and Los Alamos Chess

What a computer taught 1950s scientists about the game of strategy.




Maniac 

Monday, July 10, 2023

A Giant Resource

 I've placed links to Bill Wall's Chess website on my blog in the past. I thought it might be helpful to point out some of the information available on this giant resource site.


Full disclosure Mr. Wall has linked to this blog from his Resources list. The site is huge. As you would expect with a site that contains this many links some of them are broken. If you report them he does fix or remove them. My favorite part of the site is farther down. Scroll down to find this section.


Game collections sorted by Players, Openings, Tournaments, and EBooks. If you don't want to scroll and hunt for what you want you can search. Just press CTRL and F (find). Type in what you want to look for. Press the arrow keys to step through the list returned by your search. Check it out Bill Wall's Chess Website.


Monday, May 1, 2023

Chess.com Adds Links to Chessable and Aimchess

 Chess.com purchased the Magnus Group, Chessable, and Aimchess. I noticed recently links added under the learn menu. I found the handoff a bit clumsy as the sign in process was still required.