This is a collection of many sites that I have enjoyed over the years.
www.chesscafe.com
This has monthly columns by many authors. There is also a wonderful archives section with many past articles.
I used to love the Kibitzer By Harding.
We're Going On An Elephant Hunt
Who Dunst It?
Anyone For The Franco-Benoni
These are some of the memorable articles.
I found this page last year or so, although it is older.
http://www.angelfire.com/games4/lifemasteraj/_Lasker/lasker-list.html
The creator of this page is an outstanding chess analyst.
In addition to the Lasker page, there are also pages on Tal and brilliancy prize games.
This (Steinitz-Lasker Game)
http://www.angelfire.com/games4/lifemasteraj/_Lasker/lask_stein-vs-l_lond1899_ts.html
is particularly outstanding.
As is this (Janowski-Marshall)
http://www.angelfire.com/games4/lifemasteraj/_Marshall/marsh_jan-vs-m_cs1904.html
These are some amazing annotations.
I actually wrote the author an email thanking him for the wonderful job, but I never got a response. I assume he doesn't keep up with the site much anymore.
For fans of the Halloween Gambit, this is nice.
http://www.chessville.com/UCO/Halloween_Gambit/Part_1.htm
There are also some funny chess quotes on this one.
http://www.chessville.com/Quotes/misc_trivia_quotes_wit.htm
Ed's Ever Growing Chess Page is also an oldy but a goody.
Ed is a big fan of chess. He has many articles on the game.
http://www.edcollins.com/chess/
The Exeter Chess Club also has some nice instructional content.
http://www.exeterchessclub.org.uk/
Here is an excellent lecture on the Lasker Queen's Gambit
http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/games/java/2007/lasker-kenilworth-repertoire.htm
Fans of Jeremy Silman (author of How To Reassess Your Chess) should enjoy his site.
Included are instructional articles and book reviews.
http://www.jeremysilman.com/chess.html
Ken Smith, owner and publisher of Chess Digest, had an improvement course years ago. Most of the "course" included buying tons of books that he published. 🙂 There is some pretty good advice/information in this one though.
This used to come inside every chessdigest catalog.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010405004904/chessdigest.com/lssn.html
There is also a wonderful chess site from quite an unusual chap. 🙂
Actually, it's greenpawns column. 🙂
http://chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandler.php
The University Of Pittsburgh Chess Page has many game collections in pgn and other forms.
http://www.pitt.edu/~schach/Archives/index2.html
That is archives section. Home is http://www.pitt.edu/~schach/
Click PGN. Then on the right, click Index. To see what all they have. It hasn't been updated in a while, but many of the classic tournaments are there. There are also game collections of players and openings.
Check It Out.
I use Winboard to view mine.
www.chessgames.com
is an excellent source of GM games. You can search player, opening, etc. Some even have nice annotations.
For free rated timed chess (not correspondence), there is FICS.
(The Free Internet Chess Server) www.freechess.org
You have to sign up and download a client like BabasChess or Winboard.
ICC (The Internet Chess Club) is similar.
It charges a membership fee though.
FICS and ICC used to be one site. FICS remained free though.
www.chessclub.com
Let me think of more. 🙂
Although not one of my personal favorites, the chess tactics server has a lot of supporters.
http://chess.emrald.net/
For chess videos,
www.youtube.com
search chess, Capablanca, Fischer, Tal, etc.
Some good things should come up.
I remember a long documentary about the Fischer-Spassky match that was wonderful.
I also saw some of Kasparov's Queen's Gambit DVD there.
Another memorable thing was a lecture by Yermolinsky.
Tom Purser's Blackmar Diemer Pages are a must for fans.
http://www.geocities.com/~blackmar/
This article by Tim McGrew is particularly memorable.
http://www.geocities.com/~blackmar/bdg_world/mcgrew1.html
Feel free to add more sites. 🙂
chess-poster.com
ive never heard of anyone that knew of this site. it was probably the 1st site i found. they have a fun little chess engine to play against too. it's under the tab "let's play chess"
it has articles, small biographies of world champs, the longest game ever recorded, the oldest game ever recorded, etc.
pretty interesting.
Originally posted by thadeusmanI'm subscribed to chesslecture.com as well. And yes, it is a bit expensive... And unfortunately I don't think you can download the lectures to you own computer...
Is anyone a member of chesslecture.com its a little pricy but its worth it.
Originally posted by Guychyeah I also found that out🙁.who is your favorite guy, mine is jesse kraai then Dana mackenzie.
I'm subscribed to chesslecture.com as well. And yes, it is a bit expensive... And unfortunately I don't think you can download the lectures to you own computer...