Chessville is proud to introduce you
to Bill Wall's Wonderful World of Chess! On these pages you'll find
entertainment, enlightenment, and plenty of just plain old fascinating
stuff. Bill writes, "Welcome to Bill Wall's wonderful world of
chess, with future articles and anecdotes about chess. Myself, I have
been playing chess since the 1960s as a teenager and hopelessly addicted to
chess."
Hang on, the ride starts now....
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Chess Links (over 600 chess links)
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1.b4 - A Short History of an Unusual Opening
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100
Classic King's Gambit Miniatures
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ACM
Computer Chess (history of ACM computer chess events)
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Addicted to Chess (humor)
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Age of
Chess Masters
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Ajeeb
the Automaton
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Alekhine and the Nazis
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Alekhine's Shorts (Alekhine's short chess games)
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Alekhine's Writings
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Amar
or Paris Opening (1.Nh3)
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Annoying Your Opponent - best techniques (humor)
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APCT
Chess Miniatures
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Art and
Chess (Wall)
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Automatons of chess - Turk, Ajeeb, Mephisto
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Bad
Chess (How Bad is Your Chess)
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Beavis and Butthead chess
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Best Games of Chess
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The
Bishop
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Blackburne Shilling Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4)
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Blackmar-Diemer Links (1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4)
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Blindfold Chess
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Bogart and Chess
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Books, New (humor)
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Bourdonnais - McDonnell match (London, 1834)
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Bourdonnais-McDonnell annoatated games
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Brain
Games links (Kasparov-Kramnik, London 2000)
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Budapest Traps
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Cambridge Springs 1904 Tournament history and games
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Capablanca-Marshall, NY 1918 Marshall Attack
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Chess books written by Bill Wall (29 books)
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Chess
Hall of Fame
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Chessmen (a brief history of chess pieces)
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Chess Olympics
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Chess
Players (birth, death, age, cause of death)
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Chronology of Chess (Wall)
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Classic Chess Sampler CD - recommended (A review by Bill Wall)
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Combe,
Robert (forgotten British chess champion)
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Comments on my home page
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Composers of Chess
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Computer Chess History
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Death
of chess players
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DEEP
BLUE (chess computer)
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DEEP BLUE vs Kasparov (match 1)
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DEEPER BLUE vs Kasparov (match 2 - Deep Blue wins)
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Definitions in chess (humor)
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Denker, Arnold (1914-2005)
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Dunst Opening (1.Nc3)
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Durkin's Opening (1.Na3)
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Earliest Chess Games
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Eccentric Chess Players
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Einstein and Chess
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Excuses in chess
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Epigrams of Chess (chess quotes and sayings)
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Famous people who play chess
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FIDE
History
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Fireside Chess
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Firsts in chess
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Fischer, Bobby (bio)
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Fischer's Early Chess Games (1953-1958)
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Fischer's tournament and match record
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Games, Chess (19th century chess games and tourneys)
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Grob
(over 400 games beginning with 1.g4)
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Eduard Gufeld (1936-2002) by Wall
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Hermann Helms, Dean of American Chess
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Histogram of chess ratings
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History of Chess - Earliest Chess References and Books
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Horoscope for chess players (humor)
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The
Immortal Game (Anderssen-Kieseritzky, London 1851
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KAISSA Chess Computer Program (a history)
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Kasparov -Kramnik Games (Brain Games, London) (PGN)
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Kasparov-Kramnik
trivia
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Knight Moves (endings involving a knight)
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Larsen's Opening (short games with 1.b3)
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Larsen's Opening (Wall's 1.b3 games)
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Levy
and Computers (David Levy and his bet)
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limericks
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Literature (Fiction) in chess
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Losing
(Why you lose at chess)
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Manhattan Chess Club (quick history)
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Masters of Chess - A Profile (Alekhine, Anderssen, Blackburne,
Boleslavsky, Botvinnik, etc)
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Morphy bio
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Morphy's chess links
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Morphy's Laws of Chess
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Movies With Chess Scenes
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Music
and chess
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Nicknames of chessplayers
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Not
Only Chess
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Notation, Chess (descriptive and algebraic)
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Nottingham 1936 (won by Botvinnik and Capablanca)
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Occupations of chess players
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Old In
Chess (old, older, oldest in chess)
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Olympics - Chess
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Opponents, Chess Players, and Chess Friends
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Opening
Frequency
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Opening Names
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Orangutan Opening (1.b4) (some short games)
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Philidor's Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 - some miniatures)
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postal chess
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Presidents Involved in Chess
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Principles of Chess
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Pronounce that chess word
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2.Qh5
(1.e4 e5 2.Qh5)
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Quarterly for Chess History articles (article, volume, page)
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Quiz
(Off the Wall Chess Quiz)
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Reinfeld and Chess (includes a list of Reinfeld's books)
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Religion and chess
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Resigning in chess (humor)
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Reti
Opening Miniatures
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Rice Gambit
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Robespierre and Chess
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Ruy
Lopez, Bird variation
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Ruy
Lopez, Schliemann variation
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Saint
George's Defense (1.e4 a6)
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Scotch on the Rocks (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 - some miniatures)
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Searching for Bobby Fischer (Josh Waitzkin) trivia
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Sevastianov, Vitaly (Cosmonaut and Chess Enthusiast)
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Shakespeare and chess
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Short
Games of Chess I (100 short games)
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Short
Games of Chess II (100 short games)
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Short
Games of Chess III (100 short games)
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Short
Games of Chess IV (100 short games)
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Short
Games of Chess V (100 short games)
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Short
Games of Chess VI (100 short games)
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Short
Games of Chess VII (over 500 short games)
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Sicilian, Dragon
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Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5)
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Stamps - Chess
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Staunton Chess Design
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Staunton Chess Pieces, A History by Sean Evans
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Staunton vs Saint Amant (Paris 1843)
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The
Collected Works of Wilhelm Steinitz CD-ROM by Sid Pickard - A Review
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Team
Chess Names
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The
Weak In Chess (Wall's short games)
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Traps
and Chess Miniatures (14 moves or less)
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Traps
and Miniatures (15 moves or more)
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Two
Knights Defense Variation Names
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Trivia, Chess (by Bill Wall)
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Unorthodox Openings (Off the Wall Openings)
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Unusual
Opening Minaitures (1.a3; 1.a4; 1.Na3; 1.b4; 1.c3; 1.Nc3; 1.d3; 1.e3;
1.f3; 1.g3; 1.g4; 1.h3; 1.h4; 1.Nh3)
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US
Chess Champions
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US
Championship, 1845 games (Stanley vs Rousseau)
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US
Open, 1970 (Boston)
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USA vs
USSR radio match, 1945
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Wall's chess bio
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Wall's chess tournament and match record
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Wall's selected games of chess (1969-2004)
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Walls'
who play chess
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Ware's
Defense (1.e4 a5)
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The
Weinsteins (Raymond, Norman, and Garik)
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Widow,
Chessplayer (humor)
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World
War II and Chess
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Zweig
and the Royal Game