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Links to Game Play sites
Sites discussing various aspects of Game Play
- Opening Play
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- The Long and Short of Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (ECO)
- ChessOps - A Chess Opening Guide A nice interactive review of openings
- Network of Chess Openings
- Opening Systems An evolving opening repertoire from the Barnet Chess Club. Good!
- How To Improve Your Chess: Openings Ignacio Marin offers advice on the opening for beginners and some in-depth analysis for masters
- How To Master An Opening
- ChessOpolis a link to links: general and specific opening links
- Unorthodox Chess Openings
- Logical Chess extensive catalogue of openings filed in ECO order (PGN files)
- Middle-Game
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- tips Exeter Chess Club: General Middlegame Advice
- End Play
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- Endgame Search searchable database of end-games
- tips Exeter Chess Club: General advice on the endgame
- Strategy
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- Chess Strategy e-text of
Chess Strategy
, second edition, (1915) by Edward Lasker - Bernard's Index loads of tips from Exeter Club
- Chess Strategy e-text of
- Game Repositories
- Sites containing large catalogues of game and match records usually in PGN.
Keep an eye on sites like TWIC which monitor and report current tournaments as they will likely be first to make new match files available.
- Internet Chess Library (ftp) in Oklahoma. Finding your way through this can be confusing. Try this if you get stuck
- The University of Pittsburgh Chess Club maintains an archive of material from the FIDOnet Filebone (among other things).
- The Internet Chess Club has a small FTP site for graphical interfaces and its netlag-compensating program timestamp.
- The International Email Chess Group has an FTP site too.