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Tips for Beginners - Learn to Play
Start here if you want to know how the pieces move -- or if you know how they move but not much else. Every master was once a beginner!

Chess Instruction - Improve your Game
Tired of losing? Improve your openings, tactics, positional play, and endgames. Solve puzzles. Get expert instruction to improve your game.

Play Chess on the Net
The best way to improve is to play, play again, and play some more. Play against opponents from all over the world. Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, someone is waiting somewhere to play you.

Chess News around the World
Tournaments, matches, world championships, politics. Keep up to date with what's happening in the chess world.

Chess Organizations around the World
Chess is organized at all levels -- schools, towns, districts, states. We can't list them all here, but your national organization can. Find national and international organizations all over the world.

Scholastic Chess - Schools and Kids
Kids love chess. And chess loves kids. It helps them develop analytical and problem solving skills. And it's fun! Find out how to get and keep them interested.

Blogs/Magazines/Columns
Chess is an international game with international interest. You want game analysis, history, or in depth opening research? Find weblogs, magazines, and columns, online and offline.

Correspondence Chess - Postal/Email
Want a slower, more reflective pace? Chess can be played at a distance over long periods. Some of the greatest players in the world played correspondence chess on their path to greatness. Find out where to play.

Computer Chess
Computers play chess. They play well and they're constantly getting better. Only the top players can beat the best computers. Here's how the computers do it.

Products - Equipment
Want a French wood set in the Staunton pattern? Need a new digital clock? Looking for the best price on the Shazam 2800 computer? Shop for equipment -- clocks, boards, sets, and chess computers.

Products - Books & Publishers
Chess has the largest literature of any game on the planet. There are books for beginners and books for experts. There are opening books, middlegame books, and endgame books. Books about players and books about tournaments. Shop for books -- electronic and good old fashioned print. Links to the best reviews and reviewers.

Products - Software & Databases
The personal computer has revolutionized the enjoyment of chess. Use your computer as a sparring partner, study your favorite opening variation, or analyze that incredibly complicated endgame you played last night. Shop for software and databases.

Chess Game Downloads for your Collection
Now that you bought that expensive chess database you want to load it with games, games, and more games. You can find digital copies of millions of games on the Web. Build your own collection. Trade with other collectors.

Chess History
Can you name the world champions? From its obscure origins in the Orient to the frontiers of artificial intelligence, chess has a rich history, filled with fascinating, sometimes quirky personalities.

Chess Players and Other Personalities
Philidor, Steinitz, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Tal, Spassky, Fischer, Kasparov, Kramnik. Find out more about these and other great names of the past and present.

Chess Events - Current and Historical
Did the USSR really beat the world in a match? What's category 18 mean? What's so special about Hastings, Linares, and Lone Pine? Find out more about tournaments, matches, and other competitions.

Chess Art and Literature
Chess is more than a game. In many ways the 64 squares mirror the world around them. Artists will show you how and writers will tell you why.

Chess Variants
If chess is inexhaustible, so are its variants. They include precursors like chaturanga and cousins like shogi. Has the variant you dreamed up already been invented by someone else? Find out from these sites.

Reference - Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
When was that player born? What does that term mean? What were the Lewis chessmen and what does ECO stand for? The answers are online if you know where to look.

Other Chess Sites (incl. Directories)
Some sites just don't fit in anywhere else. This includes chess directories.

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