Links to Other Sites
Hope these are helpful & fun. Please send me details of your own
site.
Chess
Libraries of Compositions
Retrograde Analysis Corner
(together with Otto Janko's site) The place to begin for Retro Analysis.
Chess Problem Database Server Simply vast numbers of retro problems
& helpmates
Online Communities
Chess
Composition Microweb
France-Échecs This is an active
French chess community where creative composers throw quality problems together rapidly.
Many tourneys and challenges. Friendly and eclectic. On the downside it
seems that all of the
older material has simply disappeared, which is sad. (In French.)
Retros Mailing
List Could be busier, but all the greats are here, and what does
get communicated is of high quality.
Rules
FIDE
Laws of Chess
Codex of FIDE
Chess Problem Commission
Tools
En Passant general
directory of tools: the ones I use are...
EDP2DIAG for diagram
production
Euclide for Proof
Games
Natch for Proof Games
Popeye for
checking compositions, especially fairy (might as well just point you to
Wikipedia these days...)
Endgame Tablebases
Multi-metric access set up by
John Tamplin DTM, DTC, DTZ & DTZ50 solutions for all endgames with
=< 5 units, and prospects to grow substantially.
Online Nalimov tablebase
for 3,4,5-piece endgames with easy to use interface.
Play Chess with God Solutions to all pawn-less endgames with =< 6
pieces.
Guide to Endgames
Tablebase useful guide to Endgame Engines
Online & Paper Magazines
Best Problems
Italian/English magazine
Chess Informant Good overview of problems
Mat Plus "The
Best of Chess Problems"
Probleemblad (in Dutch)
Problemesis
online chess magazine, in French & English. Alas no more issues will
appear...
Problem Online Croatian
internet chess problem magazine.
StrateGems
American magazine, from the "Good Companions" group
Die Schwalbe excellent magazine (in German).
Regional Chess Sites
Chess Composition in Torun
Sharp-looking site from Torun, Poland
Maroc-Échecs Chess in Morocco (in
French)
Personal Chess Sites
Alan Cowderoy Chess Graphics (site no longer being updated, but still
there..)
David Dowe
Chess articles, also game theory & other games.
Étienne Dupuis
(Euclide & chess problems). Site designed in attractive minimalist
style.
Ján Golha Particularly
comprehensive list of tourneys.
George Jelliss
Lots of good definitions of orthodox & fairy terms.
David Joyner
Chess & mathematics.
Vaclav Kotesovec
Popular chess problem site, also combinatorial game theory.
Tim Krabbé
Very popular Dutch site, focused on play but with some interesting
compositions.
François
Labelle Impressive computer-based frontal assaults on proof game
openings.
Torsten
Linß Chess problems.
Leo Mano Some
really good unpublished retro chess problems in this Brazilian site.
Peter Rösler "Schachaufgaben von Peter Rösler".
Brian Stephenson Good site covering British problem activity with a
nice introductory tutorial (not so fond of the brown background on many
of the pages...)
Manolis Stratakis Greek
problem site.
Ronald Turnbull
Actually there's no chess here at all, but this shows what he does when
he's not composing chess problems. I hope he returns some day.
Mario Velucchi MATH Chess & RETROS
Bibliographical ReSource.
Stanislav Vokal His problems - with a particular focus on castling retros.
Thorsten Zirkwitz Problem chess pages, for intermediate-level
composers.
Non-Chess
Saving the Planet
Earthwatch Institute A wonderful organization that has shown me so
much
The
Hunger Site A dot.com era concept: glad to see it's still going
Tools
Altavista
Babelfish Automatic translation
HTML Goodies Leading web
tutorial site
Math
John Baez I
wish I understood more of this, but I do enjoy it
Elwyn Berlekamp One of the founders of combinatorial game theory
Donald Knuth
famous Stanford mathematicianStanley Rabinowitz
founder of the much loved MATH Notesfile in DEC, back in the day
Neil
Sloane (including famous index of integer sequences)
Other Games & Puzzles
Anarea Another
game I have played
Cheapass Games These
sound like a lot of fun: very original
Firetop Mountain A magical
duel game I had some small part in preserving in the dark days before
internet immortality. A great game - certainly a lot cheaper than...
Magic the Gathering My
addiction prior to chess problems
Ed Pegg's Mathpuzzle
Increasingly the successor to Martin Gardner
Mythic Entertainment
an online game company that I respect highly
Newcastle United a
nearly top-flight soccer team
Non-Chess Retro Analysis The Scrabble one is amazing!
Steve Burt If you like figure wargaming
Web-Grognards The site for board
wargaming
Writing I liked
Peter
Anspach Evil Overlord List
Joshua Samuel Brown great travel
writer and friend
Joseph Conrad Society (UK) fan site for a writer I love
Neil Gaiman fan site
"Sandman": the graphic novel as literature
Flying Moose of Nargothrond Highly comical
Marjorie Ingall
"Snarly Central": ex-writer for that wonderful ex-magazine Sassy
Meaning of Life, etc
Non-Violence
& Islam A friend from Taiwan (Zippo) is featured in this now
timely article
Richard
Dawkins fan site Highlights the ideas of a leading anti-creationist
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