Exeter Chess Club: Benedict's Index

 Benedict Verheyen [also known as blackknightofdoom] got fed up thrashing around trying to find stuff, and so has sorted me out with this neat index, for which I am enormously grateful.

UPDATE 2005: I've added to it to make it a more complete list of what's on the site (not just what's classified by grade)

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    Reference to other sites:

    Opening

     * The London Chess Centre has published a whole bunch of introductory stuff on Openings, but you have to pay for any meat. [A Lynx-hostile site] *I'm delighted to say that the Wilkes-Barre/Traxler line has its own web pages at Echecs . *The Giuoco Piano and Evans' Gambit are ideal for juniors, beginners and other players. Lytham Ex Chess Club have some information for club-players on the Scotch Gambit. * I incline more to Lombardy's view that "at the amateur level, anything is playable" than the master view [ (1) , (2) ] that all such openings suck. Well perhaps they do, at master level . (4) See also Introduction to the Sicilian, Steve Spurgeon's page at Bath, and the (Sicilian) Dragon's Lair. (5) These may now be compared with the variation index of BDG World magazine. Ryan's initiative was an attempt to get some newsgroup discussion going about opening choices, but not many folk contributed constructively and the thread died. There are some dedicated pages on the BDG from Jyrki Heikkinen (alongside superb stuff on the Diemer-Duhm Gambit, a related Anti-French line: this is a model of how to present chess openings on the Web), Tom Purser (editor of Blackmar-Diemer Gambit World magazine) and David Flude. There is even a BDG newsgroup in existence, but there is little or no relevant traffic on it. Tom recently organised a BDG theme e-mail tournament, and you can read about my adventures if you're interested.

    Tactical

     100 positions from the canon. I note with both pleasure and humility that the standards in this section have been substantially exceeded by WT Harvey John Coffey and David Hayes

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