Basic Chess [Getting Started | Moving Pieces | Glossary] [Suggested Reading]

For more information about chess, here is a list of books, articles, and websites.

Eade, James.  Chess For Dummies.  Foster City.  IDG Books, 1996.
Book about chess for beginner and advanced players.  Introduces strategies, traps, and tricks, etiquette during play, along with the phases of a game.  Expands on history of the game.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online

Chess: Encyclopedia Britannica Online <http://www.eb.com:180/bol/topic?eu=108173&sctn=1>

Chinese Chess: Encyclopedia Britannica Online <http://www.eb.com:180/bol/topic?idxref=24525&sctn=1>

Internet Chess Club

<http://www.chessclub.com>:  The World's Most Active Chess Club.

Kasparov Chess

<http://www.kasparovchess.com>:  This site offers equipment and apparel for purchase, free chess playing over the Internet, and lessons in a chat room setting.

Kung Fu Chess

<http://www.kungfuchess.com>:  For something completely different, try this version of blitz chess.  Players take turns simultaneously and the object of the game is to literally capture the king.

Seirawan, Yasser.  Winning Chess Strategies.  Redmond.  Microsoft Press, 1994.
Book expanding on strategies using analysis of actual games and features profiles of historic chess players.  Not for beginners.

US Chess Federation

<http://www.uschess.org>:  Official site of the United States Chess Federation.

Basic Chess [Getting Started | Moving Pieces | Glossary] [Suggested Reading]
by Bobby Kuechenmeister
originally written as a term project for Dr. Dennis G. Jerz's English 309:  Writing Electronic Texts course.
first posted December 20, 2001
last updated October 23, 2005