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The history of Chess Databases

Details: Published: Sunday, 20 September 2015 10:06; Written by Openingmaster; Hits: 5713

The history of chess as such goes to medieval times and we can write several books about it. The oldest chess board was found in Uzbekistan and goes back to 7^th century but when you try to look for information about the history of chess databases you suddenly have no articles to read. So why don't we have a look where does it come from?

Elementary schools chess

Details: Published: Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:06; Written by Openingmaster; Hits: 7072

September 2015 is here, the summer is over, children and students return to their schools to learn something new. Believe it or not some elementary schools have chess classes part of their syllabus. Only three hours per week but the children who sign up for this class will be somehow different to their class mates who don't.

Do we need chess databases?

Details: Published: Tuesday, 15 September 2015 17:45; Written by Paulo Morais; Hits: 7251

It may seem obvious that chess players do need chess databases but did you stop for a second to wonder why? And, namely, for education purposes, is it so important? Well, let's try to answer. Education may be defined as the process of learning. And how can we learn? An old teacher told me, recently, that education is, simply, to pose questions! And the teacher role is to lead the student to these questions, to give him that uncomfortable feeling one experience until the answer is found! And an answer, obviously, will lead to more questions...

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The history of Chess Databases

Elementary schools chess

Do we need chess databases?

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