International chess | Asian chess | chess programming
learn chess | play chess | services & annex

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International Chess

Here you find background information about normal chess. We deal with the history of chess, the development of the pieces, the world champions and the FDE laws of chess. For relaxation we have also two games and a quiz you can test you background knowledge about chess with. If you want to make you better play chess you will find many interesting chess lessons for every skill level at our chess teacher.

• The history of chess
• The history of the pieces
• The running knight [game]
• The chess world champions
• World champions memory [game]
• The FIDE laws of chess
• A chess quiz

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Asian chess

In Asia, chess developed different than in Arabia and Europe. So chess games with other boards and rules are in use in Asia. We present two different chess games from Asia, the Japanese Shogi and the Chinese XianQi.

• Shogi
• XianQi
• Chess Puzzle [game] [requires shockwave plugin]

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Chess programming

Have you ever wanted to know how a chess program works? Then this part is exactly the right thing for you! The theoretical part describes how a chess program learns the chess rules, how it evaluates a position or how it finds the best move. This part is written simply, so those that are not programmers can also understand it. In the practical part, we develop step by step a chess program in Java, with explanation and source code!

• Introduction
• Theoretical part
• Practical part
• End version of the chess program of the practical part

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Learn chess

The heart of this part is the Java applet Chess Teacher that we developed. With that applet, chess lessons can be displayed. There are lessons for every skill level - from beginner to advanced players. You can also write own lessons and make them available for the rest of the world.

• Start chess teacher
• Write a own lesson
• Help for the lesson generator

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Play chess

Here you can practice chess against our Java applet Chess Partner. You also find many chess problems. You can also write your own chess problem and post it!

• Play chess against chess partner
• Solve chess problems
• Write a chess problem
• Help for chess problem generator

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Services and annex

Here you can find background information for our site. You can find information about the authors of the site, copyright information or additional tables. We also offer different services, like our links, the download of the offline version, a guest book or our chess club list.

• Links
• Download the offline version
• The authors of the site
• Copyright information
• Citation template
• FIDE rating list
• Guest book
• Chess club list

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written 2000 by
Leander Eyer | Patrick Abgottspon | Natalie Preston
for the Think Quest Internet Challenge