How should I post my games and annotations on the blog?
I gave this question a bit of thought and have decided to use Chesspad to annotate my games. The program is simple and elegant (perfect for me); better yet, its also free (shareware). Chesspad is only available for Windows, which poses a problem as I have an iMac at home. I spent an entire evening the other night searching the internet for a comparable program for Mac, but finally gave up. There are a number of programs out there that run on the MacOS, but I just don’t have enough time to invest (read: too lazy) in figuring out a different program. So, for now I’ll use Chesspad on my work laptop.
Chesspad will allow me to paste annotated games into this blog straight from the program. But reading straight annotations and pgn is pretty dry and without a chessboard and a pocketful of patience, not very useful. I’d like to figure out a way to add diagrams to this blog and if possible, be able to play though the games I annotate…
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Monday, March 5, 2007
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Amateur chess digest
Don't let my brilliant tactics and sound positional play fool you, I'm an amateur chess player. A few years ago I used to play quite a bit, but work got in the way and I put the game down for a while. However, I'm determined to pick it back up. In fact I hereby declare that I'm going to play weekly and study enough to be able to play in the Mechanic's Institute Tuesday night blitz without embarrassing myself.
I'm an amateur chess player and as such, books of annotated chess games, aren't of much use to me. I find they assume a certain skill level and understanding of the game that I don't possess and as I study them, I continually wonder why certain lines, moves or ideas are passed over and ignored. I like Pandolfini's 'crime and punishment' approach to teaching Chess...that really worked for me. What I'd really like to see are some annotated chess games that look more familiar. Games with lines that I would play, variations that I'd consider....something like an amateur chess digest. That's why I'm going to post my games here and annotate them myself.
I'm an amateur chess player and as such, books of annotated chess games, aren't of much use to me. I find they assume a certain skill level and understanding of the game that I don't possess and as I study them, I continually wonder why certain lines, moves or ideas are passed over and ignored. I like Pandolfini's 'crime and punishment' approach to teaching Chess...that really worked for me. What I'd really like to see are some annotated chess games that look more familiar. Games with lines that I would play, variations that I'd consider....something like an amateur chess digest. That's why I'm going to post my games here and annotate them myself.
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