Help Yourself-Chess News and Resources

Keeping Up with the News

Chess is slow but news travels fast.

ChessBase - is my favourite news site. News comes daily, has many illustrated reports and you can view games played with a nice games viewer.

The Week in Chess - all the latest results and also has a downloadable games feature for keeping databases up to date

Other Resources

New in Chess-has the best chess magazine in the world. NIC is also publishes quarterly yearbooks and many other resources.

Rybka-is a strong chess program and has a free downloadable beta version

Chessgames.com-is an online database of games

Chessville-has an instruction section, annotated games and other goodies

Ten Tips to Winning Chess is a nice starting point

Playing Online

This is a great way to practice!

Internet Chess Club-you can join or play for free as a guest. The best site for the most serious players

World Chess Network-Many of my students play here

Playchess.com-Has many features and you get 1 year free membership if you buy the Fritz playing program


For Kids in Vancouver

Vancouver Public Library-Chess Club for Children - I used to run this club.

Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. to noon

Location:
Children's LibraryLibrary Square - Lower Level
350 W. Georgia St.
www.vpl.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/chi/home.html

Admission: Free! Just drop in