Book Review: Tactics Time! 1001 Chess Tactics from the Games of Everyday Chess Players

I’ve been subscribed to Tim Brennan’s newsletter (sent out every week) for quite some time now, so when he wrote this cool book on chess tactics, I was really delighted. I was even more delighted when I saw that it is written in collaboration with Anthea Carson. All my kids know her for her animal chess […]

New version of chess PGN to TeX to PDF converter

OK, I’m shameful. After fighting with Scid’s exporter, and then correcting bugs in pgn2ltx’s source, I finally decided to take a look at that PGN file format. And guess what? It’s already composed of FEN notation. And guess what? that super-über cool new skaknew module for LaTeX gets its input as FEN!!

Updated mate-in-one document, now includes chess coordinates

Update: A new updated version of the PDF is available, which includes which side to play. After a request to have coordinates on the board, to be able to write answers (a really nice idea, especially that Ido begins writing), I noticed I couldn’t do it so easily, because the LaTeX module (chess12) didn’t support […]

New chess website for Chess education/promotion

BNPParibas in association with the FIDE created a new nicely done website (in french only). The goal of this website is to show the usefulness of chess to parents/teachers or schools. Children will also be happy to consult this website, there are cool games, and even a quiz, where one can win a sort of […]

Easy chess games for kids (mate in one)

UPDATE: You can get a much better revised version of the PDF now, with coordinates, in this newer post. In my journey to teach chess to Ido, an easy (I thought) job was to generate diagrams where he has to find mate in a fixed number of turns. Starting with mate in one. It appeared […]

Ido’s chess Journey: How to teach chess to a 3 year old kid

How to teach chess to a 3 year old kid? That’s a good question. I wanted to teach Ido chess for a long time, but each time I tried, he lost focus after 2 minutes, even just for teaching him just rook movements. I decided I needed to plan it a little more, make it […]