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Sorry for the drop in updates, been busy producing books for juniors {D} and adults {all} 31st Oct 2004
PDF files offsite from the extremely cool Moritz Franosch {all} 26th april 2004
How to play chess {} 10th April 2004
Taimanov's Legacy {A/B} 10th April 2004
Programmes for Beginners [Freeware/Shareware] {working towards D} 14th Feb 2004
36 Junior games {C/D} 11th Feb 2004
Lessons from Larsen {A/B} 13 Jan 04
Lessons from Petrosian {A/B} 13 Jan 04
Lessons from Tartakower {A/B} 13 Jan 04
Exeter and District Chess League {ALL} 23 Dec 03
Random chess quotes {all} 10th Aug 2003
Grob's Grobs {all} 29 May 03
Updated All my books {all} 24 Apr 03
Devon's Centenary Internet Match {all} Dec 2001
I have just been sent a splendid appreciation of David Bronstein's Book of the Zurich 1953 Candidates' Tournament by Russell Gooding. {all} 25 Oct 2000
We have been pleased to receive as our guest at the club Konrad Muller, Press Officer of the prestigious Dresden Chess Festival {classy} July 2000
Note: I may have ruined Exeter Junior Chess Club by teaching the members Kriegspiel {all} 15 April
A disaster in the Stonewall {class D} 15 April
Playing Closed d-Pawn openings at Junior level {D}( 15 Apr 2000 revised)
Big round-up of Bob Jones' WMN chess column {all}
Benedict Verheyen [also known as blackknightofdoom] got fed up thrashing around trying to find stuff, and so has sorted me out with an index {all}, for which I am enormously grateful.
19 Jan 2000: By popular request, you can now have these four documents with the usual diagrams.

I hesitated to put these up with full diagrams before, since they are so big, but the Web has got a lot faster since then, and thanks to all the "developments" in Web software since 1993, people have got used to waiting ages for stuff to download ;-).
What's wrong with club players? {C/B} 16 Nov 99
Exchanging to Win [DRAFT] {B} 16 Nov 99
Minor Opening Mistakes {C} 16 Nov 99
Modern Tabi'a - new starting formations {A} 16 Nov 99
No more Old Stodge! {D} 16 Nov 99
Chess and Life {any} , an essay prompted by Davd Linh, 15 Nov 99
Press releases from the Devon County Chess Association {all} 12 Nov 99
Simon Waters explains How to Beat Chess Computers {B/A} : see also an endgame example.
N.B. I've just been handed a giant error log by the local admins - broken links and so on. If you find a duff link or non-existent GIF, please let me know about it at the usual address - thanks!
100-odd years of Exeter Chess Club - not coaching exactly, but we hope you enjoy it!
Blunders at East Devon {all} 25 May 99
Mate with Bishop and Knight {all} by Danny Sparkes and Norbert Friedrich 25 May 99
East Devon Congress 1999 Bulletin and games from Premier and Major sections: thanks to Ian George {all}
The Red Queen's Race at the East Devon congress {any}
Gambit play {C/D} 18 Mar 99
Lessons in Philidor's Defence {D} 18 mar 99
Coaching and the British Chess Federation 16 Mar 99
The Fianchetto {D} 13 Feb 99
The Ruy Lopez: Spanish Torture? {B/C} 13 Feb 99
A Capablanca Ending by Tony Dempsey {B/C} 13 Feb 99
A Reader's Guide to a Fine Book {C/D} 1 July 97
[Sorry for the long silence, folks, producing coaching notes has been squeezed out by junior chess, and pressure of work and family. - Dr. Dave]
Capablanca: the ultimate attacking player from Pete Lane {B/A} 11 Jun 98
Steinitz' theory {all} 9 Jun 98
Update of site archive [gzipped TAR file] 4 Jun 98
Update and new CB 6.0 version of the Canon and opening booklets {all} 4 Jun 98
The Art of Analysis: UPDATE {all} 28 May 98
Peter Lane has been Preparing for combinations {B/A} 26 May 98
Strategy and Tactics {D/C} 5 May 98
A minor openings survey {D/C} 30 Apr 98
Contempt for Pawns {all} 15 Apr 98
The Isolated Queen's Pawn in the QGA by Peter Lane {B}
The Modern Defence {B}
Please, No more Old Stodge! {D} 10 Mar
Experienced NW coach Phil Adams explains Opposite-coloured Bishops {C/B} and Chess with Attitude {all} 6 Mar
Chris Bellers celebrates the Deadly English {all} 5 Mar
Database Game hogs please note that existing local databases are listed for Devon and the West Country {all} 1 Dec 97
Don't you just hate it when this happens? [DR] 27 Sep 97

Dr. Dave