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Alexander Armour

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Featured Game

blue789 VS blue148

Move White Black
1 e4 e5
2 Qh5 d6
3 Bc4 g6
4 Qf3 b6
5 Qxf7 #

Interesting Chess Links

www.chesspositiontrainer.com

An excellent tool to learn and memorize openings and self created opening variations. The program is free. (If you decide to download the program, donīt forget to download some of the existing databases from the site. Otherwise you will not be able to start the program. But there is also a manual, which explains everything.)

www.chessgames.com

Gamedatabase and actual games from tournaments.

www.chesslive.de/index_d.htm

Big Gamebase.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm

Chess records and curiosities. If you really want to laugh, take a look at the "Greatest Number of Castlings" - Game.

http://www.chesslab.com/PositionSearch.html

Yes, another database, my fellow teammates, I know!

http://chess.emrald.net/index.php

A site where you can practise your tactical chess, not that I want to aim at your ignorance of tactics, but just a means to refresh them!

http://scid.sourceforge.net/download.html

This site is just an extra bonus for the freebase amateurs among us.