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.

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Class D	ELO: 1200 - 1399
General Advice	Chess notation Top 10 tips for Juniors Posters for a Junior Club An ABC of chess Mini Chess Games
Opening	General Opening advice Openings for Beginners Open Games with 1.e4 e5 Choosing an opening repertoire The Ideas behind some Chess openings No more Old Stodge! Endgame Openings The Italian Game Playing Black against 1. e4 Playing the Italian Game with White Playing Black after 1.e4 Playing Black after 1.d4 Playing 1.d2-d4 at junior level Playing Black against 1. d4: the Dutch Stonewall Playing Black against 1. d4 A minor openings survey
Middlegame/Tactics	General Middlegame advice Attacking the castled King Upon the Pin Tactical test
Strategy	General rules for the attack Lessons from Paul Morphy Knight outposts Bishops and things The Fianchetto Rooks on ranks and files Kings and Queens
Endgame	General Endgame advice Essential checkmates Queen against Pawn Mate with Two Bishops Exchanging into King and Pawn endings Rook and Pawn Endings: the theory Example Rook Endings

Class C	ELO: 1400 - 1599
General Advice	Strategy and Tactics Semi-Open Games with 1.e4
Opening	Gambit Play The secret arts of castling Tales of the Unexpected Playing White against odd Black lines Playing Black against 1. d4 the Petroff Defence for Beginners Playing White with 1.e4 against Black's other choices Four choices in the opening Steve Martinson on openings the Colle System Lessons in Philidor's Defence The French Defence for Beginners Ideas behind the French Defence An Introduction to the King's Indian Attack Ryan Ripley on the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit The Doctor on the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Part I The Doctor on the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Part II (5) Gary Lane's book on the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Part II Custer's Last Stand
Middlegame/Tactics
Strategy	The Very Slow King's-side attack The Queen's-side attack Simple Chess Lessons from Capablanca Lessons from Bobby Fischer Two weaknesses Opposite-coloured Bishops Weak Pawns Pawn formations Pawn mobility
Endgame	Bishop Endings Opposite-coloured Bishops

Class B	ELO: 1600 - 1799
General Advice
Opening	Closed Games with 1.d4 d5 Four choices in the opening The Hypermodern Approach Playing Black against odd 1.e4 Openings The Ruy Lopez Ruy Lopez Exchange Variation The Ideas behind the King's Gambit Variations of the King's Gambit The Modern Italian Game An Introduction to the Sicilian Defence Five Sicilians from Club Play (4) Beating the Anti-Indians The Modern Defence
Middlegame/Tactics
Strategy	Capablanca: the ultimate attacking player Meat and potatoes: three phases of a tough game Towards Simpler Chess Lessons from Rubinstein Lessons from Lasker Lessons from Tal Planning Weak Squares The Isolated Queen's Pawn in the Queen's Gambit Accepted
Endgame	A Capablanca Ending Double Bishop Endings

Class A	ELO: 1800 - 1999
General Advice
Opening	Semi-Closed Games Closed Sicilian with ...e5 You know when you've been Benko'd The English Opening Chris Bellers Deadly English
Middlegame/Tactics	Preparing for combinations
Strategy	Thinking schematically On manoeuvres: The Art of Winning Slowly Doubled c-pawns: Are they worth a Bishop?
Endgame

	All Levels
General Advice	A Chess Glossary Cool Tips Steinitz' theory Chess with Attitude
Middlegame/Tactics	Solving Tactical Problems Practical Tactics Practical Tactics 2 Problems and Studies The Art of Analysis Tactics quotes Gene Thompsons Tactic quotes Notes on the blunders Counting the blunders All the blunderful games
Strategy	Contempt for Pawns Assess Your Chess How to lose at chess Lessons from a Simul. (1995) Differences at a Simul What makes a difference? Swindle your way to success Club games Five Sicilians from Club Play Clock control The Development of Chess Style How do chessplayers think? Chess and psychology Chess Quotes Stories Excuses for Losing David Bronstein Luck in Chess Trawled from the 'net
Endgame	Winning drawn endgames

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
David Hayes

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