LOTR Chess Collection

One day I'll be able to actually have this on show, due to little fingers

Record and Publish your Chess Games

A great tool to publish your PGN notes and embed your games on your blogs etc.

http://chesstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/html-code-generator-for-blogs.html

Improving TACTICS

Training our tactical vision

 

The following set of tips may help train tactical vision:-

• Kotov in [1] suggested getting really complicated positions from games, and then doing a thorough analysis of those positions, and then comparing your analysis to that of the annotatators.
• It is generally acknowledged that solving chess puzzles from books/ magazines, [and chess web sites] helps develop our visualisation. Looking through games in one's head without using a chess set is also another method which may help improve our ability to visualise positions in advance.
• Serious tournament practice will force us to visualise moves ahead.
• Playing openings with are highly tactical in nature such as the open sicillian defence is also a good idea for practicing combinations and tactical ability in general.
• Having one's games analysed by a strong computer program, and then seeing the tactical resources the program has seen may reveal to us many possibilities that we completely missed.

Improving Chess Links

Some links that provide ideas for you to follow and work at to get better at Chess.

8 shortcuts to improving your chess
http://blog.chess.com/SonofPearl/8-shortcuts-to-chess-improvement

How to get better
http://www.thechessworld.com/learn-chess/17-chess-how-tos/19-how-to-get-better-at-chess-guide-for-all-levels

More advice
http://www.jlevitt.dircon.co.uk/adv.htm

Amazing Chess Set

This is an absolutely amazing chess set

It will cost you about £1000 from here > http://www.chessmazeinternational.com/catalogue/limited-edition-sets/

I'll be putting it on my Christmas list :o))