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The Best Chess Rating Software For Chess Clubs
Are you managing a chess club? Have you thought of using a system to rate the performance of the players? I list a few solutions for chess clubs looking for chess rating software. What's a rating system As Wikipedia says, a chess rating system is "a system used in...
Chess Variant: Losing Chess
Losing Chess is an old chess variant that helps you to visualize attacks and threats and to improve your control of the chessboard. The origins of Losing Chess go back a long way. A known version, called Take Me, was played in the 1870s, while nowadays this variant is...
Chess Variant: One Army Vs One King
One Army vs One King is a quick chess variant that helps you develop attacking strategy.
How Queen Moves And Captures In Chess
Learn how Queens move and capture in chess. Starting Position of Queens Each player starts with just one queen. The queen is the piece wearing a crown. The white queen starts on d1 and the black queen on d8. If you need help to remember where Queens start on, remember...
Chess Variant: Bughouse Variant
This variant of Bughouse is a funny chess game to be played between teams of any even number. Bughouse Variant Rules This game requires at least two chess sets and two teams of two players (per team), but can be played between teams of any even number. The rules are...
Chess Variant: Three Checks Chess
Three Checks Chess is a quick chess variant that helps you to improve your attacking ability and to develop your sacrifice tactics. Three Checks Chess Rules This game is a chess variant in which a player wins if he checks his opponent three times. All the other...
Checkmate in Chess
How do you win a chess game? Simply, you checkmate the enemy King. Let's talk about checkmate. What is a checkmate? Checkmate is a position where the King is put in check by one (or more) pieces, and there are no ways for the King to get out of check. Let's take a...
Chess Variant: Remove The Guard
Remove The Guard is a chess variant that helps you to improve your ability to see who is protecting what. Why Is Remove The Guard Useful? Playing Remove the Guard will help you to better play chess for two reasons. First of all, learning to have all of your pieces...
Chess Variant: Deny
Deny is a chess variant that helps you to develop alternatives in your strategy. Why Is Deny Useful? Deny will help you to understand more about psychology in chess. This game is all about having two plans at the same time, about learning how to hide your plans to...
Capture The Flag Games
Capture the flag is a special chess game really useful to beginners. I'll show you some possible combinations you can play with while you are learning the chess basic moves. If you don't remember them, please read the Capture the Flag rules before playing the...