Exeter Chess Club Coaching COMMENTS

• Comments on particular pages: I very much welcome comments on individual pages on the site, especially correcting errors, but please tell me the title or preferably the URL of the page (that's the alphabet soup beginning "http://www..." at the top of your Windows browser) so I know which one you are talking about!
• Frequently Asked Questions: I try to respond positively to all e-mail but, please, try reading the Chess FAQ list first. You can imagine how tiresome it is to get e-mail like:

  I'd like to know more about chess!
  Please send me some information by e-mail...

• Your web page: I like to hear about instructioncoaching web pages, but I don't usually add other types of site to my links page. If you have free coaching material available on your site I will certainly add a link, even for commercial sites. Otherwise, there are many good indices of chess who try to be comprehensive, like Chess Space, and I am sure they would be pleased to create a link for you.
• Playing chess on the 'net: You can play live chess free via telnet or other interfaces at the Free Internet Chess Server with players like yourself. I'm not available to play by e-mail or give advice on chess-playing or tutorial commercial software but there are other places where you can get help.
• General queries and requests for information and comments are usually best posted to the appropriate rec.games.chess group: analysis, computers, politics, e-mail, misc... Immodestly, I preserve a directory of my old r.g.c. posts.
  [Someone has written an interesting paper on the Internet using r.g.c. as an example.]
• Can you help me? I'm always after useful examples: if you have any, please let me know! (Portable Game Notation [PGN standard] format is nicest)
• Lastly, on Improving your chess:

  Article 9288 in rec.games.chess.misc: Subject: Re: Best Quick Study?? From: sloan@cis.uab.edu (Kenneth Sloan) Date: 22 Jun 1996 15:00:58 -0500 Organization: Dept of CIS, Univ. of Al at Birmingham Annotate your last 20 tournament games. -- Kenneth Sloan sloan@cis.uab.edu

  In a book by Dan Heisman called The Improving Annotator he attributes his success to self-study of this sort. If Kenneth's advice seems not enough to go on, here are some things to look for to Assess Your Chess {all}.

Dr. Dave

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