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	The London Chess Centre
		This book is aimed at chess players who have progressed beyond beginner level and have acquired the basic skills to play at club level, but need guidance to improve their understanding of chess.
		Champion of the Netherlands four times, he is now a more active writer than player, and in this collection of Ree's articles, the reader gains an insight into the chess events of the past decade.
		Top 12+1 offers chess players exactly the information the need to know; what the best of the play and what they think is best; how the top players on the rating list react to 1.e4 or 1.d4 and which systems they choose against specific defences.
	www.chesscenter.com /books2001.html (4538 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: India chess update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Seven year old school girl Ketaki Kulkarni is the latest British chess champion in the under-8 category.
		The young champion, though, cannot bring the trophy home as she has been declared joint champion along with British girl Laura Hulley, both of whom scored four points in six rounds.
		Ketaki was, however, calm and cool despite a tiring schedule - the girls' section of the championship being a tougher affair than the boys', as the participants have to compete in the boys section with the highest scoring girl being declared the girls' champion.
	www.indiaabroad.com /sports/aug/09b.htm (414 words)

	Hugh MacGrillen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At that time, chess was well organised in schools and clubs in Belfast, thanks to the efforts of a couple of stalwarts called Albert Long and Eddie Thomas.
		Chess is my main recreation and it will go on being an inexhaustible source of pleasure for ever.
		In the last year I have been delighted to find Chess Ireland on the Internet and to find out what is going on, not least to discover that some of my old friends are still at it.
	www.markorr.net /tica/players/macgrillenh/home.html (1761 words)

	InYo: Physical Chess: Kondek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Regardless of the similarities between chess and combat, one particularly important and immediate distinction must be made: chess, while a game of intense concentration and pressure, doesn’t deal with the paralyzing fear of injury or death that occurs in combat.
		Chess champion and writer Graham Burgess put it better, I think, when he said, "I tend to think that women are much too sensible to persist in playing a board game unless they can become really good at it.
		Another example of this strategy in chess involves trading pieces with your opponent until all that’s left are pawns, then using one of the pawns to achieve the last row on the board so that the pawn may become a queen.
	ejmas.com /jalt/jaltart_kondek_0702.htm (3552 words)

	Chess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Chess tournaments are not knockout, and in each of the rounds players are matched against others on the same score.
		Stephanie has only been playing chess for two years and is now one of the best girl chess players in the country for her age group.
		She was runner-up for the girls' title in the Under 10 section of the British Championships this year.
	www.portables1.ngfl.gov.uk /rfgwhite/chess.htm (473 words)

	Robert Gwaze leading English Grand Prix! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The British Grand Prix is run by Leonard Barden, an international chess correspondent with The Guardian, and has a total prize fund of over 5 000 pounds sterling.
		Robert Gwaze became the youngest ever Zimbabwe national chess champion in 1998 at the age of 16 and attained the title of International Master the same year after winning the African Junior Chess Championship in Kenya.
		The world chess federation known as FIDE is currently trying to reunify the crown which was divided when Kasparov broke away from FIDE and played Nigel Short in a 1993 match.
	www.thechessdrum.net /newsbriefs/2005/NB_RGwaze.html (501 words)

	Chess Trivia Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Borge Andersen Denmark, Danish Chess Champion (1967, 68), is born.
		Since the wounding by Fischer of Soviet chess system, the authorities were keen to ensure that Karpov would be dominant as their national chess flag for quite some time.
		Professional Chess Association (PCA) "World championship match" against British GM Nigel Short, played in the heart of London at the Savoy Theater, a short distance from Trafalgar Square and across the street from Simpson's-on-the-Strand, a famous chess center during the mid 1800s.
	www.bestofcolumbus.com /fussichen/otdches.htm (2423 words)

	Rhyl Chess Club
		The Rhyl Chess Club was just two years old when, ambitiously, it launched the first Rhyl Spring Chess Congress held at the Rhyl Town Hall over a long weekend in May 1968.
		The Rhyl Chess Congress has become a permanent and well supported annual fixture in the British chess calendar attracting many overseas players as well as enthusiasts from all over the British Isles.
		By 1969, all chess players knew that Rhyl had a chess club to be proud of for the town had been chosen as the venue for that year's annual British Chess Championships.
	www.rhylchess.co.uk /about.htm (593 words)

	George Alan Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sir George Alan Thomas (1881 – 1972) was a British chess, badminton and tennis player.
		He was twice British Chess Champion and a seven-time All-England Badminton champion.
		This biographical article related to chess is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Alan_Thomas (80 words)

	Mathematics and Chess Page
		A paraphrase from the entry under Mathematics and Chess in [5]: In 1893, a Professor Binet (of Stanford-Binet IQ test fame) made a study of the connection between mathematics and chess.
		Jonathan Mestel, grandmaster in over-the-board play and in chess problem solving, is an applied mathematician specializing in fluid mechanics and is the author of numerous research papers.
		World chess champion Kasparov is not a mathematician (as far as I know), though he has made contributions to computer science.
	web.usna.navy.mil /~wdj/math_chess.htm (2039 words)

	Pejmanesque: Chess Archives
		Chess was seen as a demonstration of dialectical materialism, the absence of chance rendering it appropriate to the austere tastes of the party leadership.
		Chess was deemed to be classless, untainted by bourgeois ideology, and hence suitable for the new proletarian cadres.
		British chess has, however, yet to unearth anyone to rival the Norwegian Simen Agdestein, who is both a chess grandmaster and played football for Norway.
	www.pejmanesque.com /archives/cat_chess.html (9888 words)

	Chess Trivia
		In 1918 he won a chess match in which the prize was a kilogram of butter.
		Chess master who was killed after being stabbed nine times in the back by a fellow employee, Theodore Smith, at CHESS REVIEW.
		Chess problem equivalent of two separate, though related, problems, most often shown on one diagram.
	www.logicalchess.com /info/trivia/t.html (1210 words)

	Chess tactics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By chess tactics, we mean the ability to calculate the effect of a move or...
		Chess Tactics for Beginners This program is based on a bestseller by the experienced...
		Chess House is the leading chess store where you can buy chess sets supplies and equipment, giant chess, chess software software clocks, over 1500 chess...
	wmdownslesage.com /Chess-tactics (635 words)

	British Women's Chess Association
		This diary is part of the British Women's Chess Association website.
		The BWCA is a non-profit organisation whose aim is to promote girls' and women's chess throughout the British Isles.
		A lot of the shops have made an effort to have some kind of chess designs in their windows, even if they don't sell anything chess-related (eg the sports shop where I bouzght my trainers after realising that my new plaster was light enough for me to running).
	www.bwca.printf.net /diary2002.shtml (10244 words)

	Chessville - Keene On Chess: Robert Wade - with GM Raymond Keene, OBE
		His best results in international chess were 5th prize at Venice in 1950 and again fifth prize a quarter of a century later in the masters’ section of the Capablanca Memorial at Cienfuegos, Cuba in 1975.
		Active in the world chess federation, FIDE, Wade was part of the committee that drew up the first official rules of the game and he sat on the committee that decided on the original holders of the International Master and Grandmaster titles (his own IM title was awarded in 1950).
		Twenty years later, an explosion in chess strength was apparent: England’s first Grandmasters qualified in the 1970s and the English team came second to the USSR in two chess Olympiads of the 1980s.
	www.chessville.com /Keene/Wade.htm (3289 words)

	Zillions of Games - Press
		Chess fanatics will be very charmed by the many predecessors, and variants of the game as they can be found in Zillions, and inventors of games will fall directly in love with the ease with which you can develop something new yourself.
		If you're into chess variants, and we are, this is the nearest you're going to get to paradise.
		A review in "Variant Chess", the journal of the British Chess Variants Society.
	www.zillions-of-games.com /press.html (2065 words)

	Malcolm Pein on the British Championships Round 11
		Chess Club (to read the columns you need to register which is free).
		The Indian Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte is the 2003 Smith and Williamson British Chess Champion after fending off the challenge of Joe Gallagher, victor in 2001, in the last round.
		The championship was effectively boycotted by the top twenty English players but the British Chess Federation has finally seen the light and has decided that next year the championship will only be open to British residents or citizens.
	www.chesscenter.com /twic/event/chgbr03/rd11.html (531 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Became the British Chess Champion in 1989 while only 17 years old.
		Michael (often referred to as "Mickey") learned to play chess when he was a six-year-old in England's westcountry.
		In addition to chess, he's a fan of several sports, particularly boxing.
	www.professorchess.com /biographies/adams.htm (145 words)

	John B. Henderson: Chess News August 2003
		ALTHOUGH the title of world champion did not officially exist in the 1840s, Victorian polymath Howard Staunton - also a Shakespearean scholar of world repute - was regarded by many as the de facto world champion during the period 1841-1853.
		Women's World Champion (1962-1978) Nona Gaprindasvili became the first woman to be awarded the men's GM title in 1979, yet Bobby Fischer in full MCP mode in his prime once boasted he could give her knight odds and win.
		Finally succumbing to the pressures, the British Chess Federation announced during the event that from 2004, entrants must have a British citizenship or a residential qualification.
	www.rochadekuppenheim.de /heco/chess0308.html (4347 words)

	Sir George Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		[British champion Sir George Thomas (1881-1972), who was awarded an IM title by FIDE in 1950, had his best chess result at Hastings 1934-5, where he tied for first with Euwe and Flohr, ahead of Botvinnik and Capablanca.
		There are some chess enthusiasts living in North Vancouver who have built a little shack for a club.
		They were aware that Sir George was a British chess champion, and they determined to get hold of him for an exhibition game.
	www3.telus.net /public/swright2/gathomas.html (313 words)

	Guardian \| Young champion's mystery death fall shocks chess world
		Police in the Czech Republic are investigating the death of a young British chess champion who fell from her hotel room window during one of the world's leading tournaments.
		Her parents, Ian and Angela, released a statement yesterday asking to be left to grieve for their daughter, adding that she had been "much loved and was an exceptionally talented chess player".
		Leonard Barden, the Guardian's chess correspondent, said Miss Gilbert had been working towards attaining a women's international master (WIM) title, and was due to start a degree in medicine at Oxford this autumn: "She always wanted to do medicine, from the age of 11.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329540258-103690,00.html (436 words)

	British Chess Federation - Chess News
		As the Sunday Telegraph Chess Column seems to have been discontinued, I believe in calling for the reinstatement of this column and for all chess players and fans to support this initiative...
		Chess is a love story set against the background of the East/West cold war, combined with the intrigue that surrounds Chess Tournaments.
		National Chess Competition Comes to Esher: The BCF is pleased to announce that Claremont Fan Court School has agreed to become the permanent home for the National Girls’ Team Chess Championships...
	www.bcf.org.uk /national (5271 words)

	Chess Tactics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		...to improve your chess tactics, hone your chess strategy, discover some new chess tips, solve a whole lot of chess puzzles, or just enjoy chess...
		A series of positions to test your chess tactics...
		Chess Tactics Trainer " Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people." Nigel Short (b.
	www.chessinfosource.com /3/chess-tactics.html (155 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - The Match of the Generations
		The British Chess Federation was founded 7 May 1904.
		Before the game Philip, the only serious chess player in the UK older than the federation said, “I am looking forward to an exciting match and fully intend to win.” Jonathan said, “I think he will win, he has had more time to practice” (note, child has his father’s wit).
		President of the British Chess Federation, Gerry Walsh, said today, “The match will demonstrate the attraction of chess for players of all ages.
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=1641 (383 words)

	News and Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the British Chess Federation Management Board Meeting in London 29/Jan/2005, Sutton Coldfield's Roy Lawrence was interviewed and subsequently appointed to the post of BCF Director of Marketing.
		Sutton Coldfield Chess Club is one of the few Clubs in Britain that runs internal competitions whose results are submitted for grading to the British Chess Federation.
		Once sharing premises with Baruch Wood’s Chess Ltd., Sutton Coldfield is the latest British chess club to set up its own website [...] where webmaster Marek Soszynski is developing a promising mix of general information, news and opening analysis, currently Marek’s own introduction to the Nimzowitsch Defence.
	www.soszynski.btinternet.co.uk /sccc/news.html (2083 words)

	New Chess Games at Chessgames.com
		Ernesto Inarkiev is the 2006 Russian Champion with 6.5/9.
		Sune Berg Hansen is the 2006 Danish Champion with 6.5/9.
		Jonathan Rowson is the 92nd British Chess Champion with an impressive 8.5/11 points.
	www.chessgames.com /chessgames.html (2271 words)

	Pal Benko Book
		This amazing collection of 138 deeply annotated games—carefully prepared to be entertaining, enlightening, and instructive—is brought to life by Pal Benko’s memoirs of his early years in war-torn Hungary where he takes the reader into a world of poverty, chaos, pain, and ultimately, personal triumph.
		Photos abound, and 300 of Benko’s chess compositions allow lovers of the game to become intimately acquainted with a strikingly beautiful aspect of chess that most have overlooked.
		His books Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy (winner of the 1999 British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award) and Chess Strategy in Action (2003) further catapulted his status to that of “chess philosopher,” with many experts now considering him to be one of the most profound thinker’s in the game’s history.
	www.jeremysilman.com /chess_benko/benko_book.html (731 words)

	British Chess Magazine: Chess Book Reviews : November 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Non-chess players often like to butter up chess players by telling us how terribly rational our game is. “There’s no luck in chess, is there, not like a card game!” they tell us, thinking to pay our game a compliment.
		It is a must for all chess historians, but also interesting for the general reader who will enter a chess world very different from today.
		This was demonstrated in the BCM Chess Shop by one harassed father, with a precocious chess child in tow, who bought the book for his own use, in order...
	www.bcmchess.co.uk /reviews/bcmrev0111.html (2464 words)

	Lanark Chess Club News
		Lanark Chess Club is one of the oldest of Scotland's chess clubs, having been in continuous existence for more than sixty years.
		A highlight of Lanark Chess Club's early years was a visit by W. Fairhurst, 11 times Scottish chess champion (the most often any player has won the event) and once British chess champion, who gave a simultaneous display on 18th October 1946, winning all 18 games played.
		Lanark Chess Club was a founder member of the South Lanarkshire Chess League, which was set up in 1950, and is the only one of the original clubs still in existence.
	www.btinternet.com /~ianmcl/history.html (473 words)

	Chess Tactics Trainer
		Tactical combinations are the weapons of chess by which we "kill" our opponent.
		Tactical preparation is the most important training you can obtain to improve your game.
		You will see chess at the state of the tactical art.
	www.logicalchess.com /resources/lessons/tactics/index.html (233 words)

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