Web Watch 11 August 2002
I am sure that most of our readers are very familiar with chess on the Web, but there is some much information out there that hopefully you will find some of my hints useful.
I would like to start with Chess Publishing - very innovative site, which first appeared a few years ago. The following piece about the site and its aims was kindly forwarded to me by GM Tony Kosten, who is involved in the project.
“Chess is experiencing an information revolution. Every week thousands of new games are posted on the Internet, and opening theory is in constant turmoil. In fact it is no secret that most books are out of date before they are even published! Mere mortals, and most experts too, simply cannot keep track.
But now there is a new easy way to check out the latest ideas and tricks -ChessPublishing.com have signed up a team of leading openings experts from around the world to bring you what is hot, digging out priceless nuggets from the mountain of new games every week. ChessPublishing.com is the fun way to keep bang up-to-date with all your favourite openings - the site has been running for 3 years, and by now there are literally thousands of annotated games and pages of original Grandmaster insight and explanation! Plus, and not least, a staggering 66 downloadable electronic books covering every opening, that are updated every month.
To have a look simply go to Chess Publishing and sign on as 'Guest' - there is even a free eBook to download."
I think that Chess Publishing is an excellent idea and would encourage our readers to have a look at it. I’d like to add that GM Ruslan Scherbakov writes for both Chess Today and Chess Publishing.
An online dictionary devoted to chess is organised and maintained by Raymond Reid - worth a visit.
An interesting project, managed by Max Panfilov, is in progress at Altmax Chess Race 2000. The goal is of the race is for a player to reach chess standard rating of 2000 (expert level) on FICS (Free Internet Chess Server), playing standard time control games with any player on the server.
Well-known author and coach Jeremy Silman now has his own Web site. This is what Jeremy had to say about it: “The chess material offers over 250 reviews by Donaldson, Watson and Silman, with numerical "reviews" by Seirawan, Christiansen, Saidy and Peters. MANY more reviews will follow with great regularity. We also offer a 30 page mini-book by Silman written just for this site, a 10 page article on the study of master games (again by Silman, and again written for this site), instruction for beginners, instruction for tournament players, opening discussion, the latest news by John Henderson, and much, much more.“
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