Everything coaching

Class: A
Class	Topics	Title
A	Openings	You know when you've been Benko'd
A	Strategy	On manoeuvres
A	Praxis	Chunking in patterns of GM thought
A	Endings	Double Bishop Endgames
A	Openings	Spanish Torture? The Ruy Lopez
A	Praxis	Dr.Dave's Adventures at East Devon 2016
A	Praxis	Dr.Dave's Adventures at East Devon, 2014
A	Openings	Taimanov's Legacy
A	Praxis	Steve Homer at work
A	Strategy	New starting formations (Tabi'at)
A	Praxis	Meat and potatoes
A	Strategy	Who's afraid of the Big Bad Minority attack?
A	Tactics	Preparation for Combinations
A	Praxis	Lessons from Tartakower
A	Praxis	Lessons from Petrosian
A	Openings	The Closed Sicilian
A	Endings	How to mate with Bishop and Knight
A	Praxis	Club Games - Andrew Pickering at work
A	Openings	The Deadly English
A	Strategy	Space and potential (mud, mud, glorious mud)
A	books, Openings	Chess from Morphy to Botwinnik by Imre Konig
A	Praxis	Dr.Dave's Further Adventures at East Devon
A	Openings	Do New Ideas Stand Up in Practice? by GM Richard Reti

Class: B
Class	Topics	Title
B	Openings	The Variations of the King's Gambit
B	Praxis	Club Games - Mark Blackmore on a roll
B	Praxis	Lessons from Rubinstein
B	Endings	Two weaknesses
B	Praxis	Club Games - Steve Webb at work
B	Endings	Basic Rook Endgames
B	Openings	Slav or Semi?
B	Openings	SuperMac!
B	Endings	Studies and problems
B	Openings	The Ideas behind the English Opening
B	Openings	The Bogoljubow Paradox
B	Praxis	Lessons from Larsen
B	Praxis	Dr.Dave's Adventures at East Devon, 2000
B	Openings	Five Sicilians from club play
B	Openings	The Ideas behind the King's Gambit
B	Strategy	Weak squares
B	Endings	Bishop Endgames
B	Strategy	Doubled c-Pawns
B	Openings	The Queen's Gambit Accepted/Isolated Queen's Pawn
B	Openings	The Hypermodern Approach
B	Openings	Dr.Dave's Adventures with the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit
B	Strategy	Mysterious moves
B	Praxis	Contempt for Pawns
B	Openings	The Modern Italian Game
B	Strategy	Planning
B	Strategy	"To take is a mistake"
B	Openings	The Ideas Behind the Modern Defence
B	Attack	The Theory of Steinitz
B	Openings	The French 'Little Centre'
B	Openings	The Sicilian Defence
B	Attack	Capablanca - Master of the Attack
B	Tactics	Strategy and Tactics
B	Strategy	Pawn mobility
B	Strategy	Bishops: good, bad and both.
B	Praxis	Lessons from Lasker
B	Praxis	Lessons from Capablanca
B	Openings	The London System
B	Strategy	The Queen's-side attack

Class: C
Class	Topics	Title
C	Openings	The French Defence for Beginners II: Key Variations
C	Strategy	Pawn formations
C	Endings	Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation: White wins
C	Praxis	Chess style
C	Openings	Systems against the English Opening: book resources
C	Praxis	Compensation for material?
C	Openings	Tales of the Unexpected: dealing with Unorthodox Openings
C	Openings	The Swiss Defence
C	Praxis	Safe and solid?
C	Praxis	Lessons from Bobby Fischer
C	Openings	Playing Black against Queen's-Pawn Openings (3): without c2-c4
C	Openings	The secret arts of castling
C	Openings	Beating the Anti-Indians
C	Strategy	Schematic thinking
C	Strategy	Weak pawns
C	Openings	The Colle System
C	Endings	A Rook Ending: Capablanca-Janowsky
C	Strategy	Opposite-coloured Bishops in the endgame and the middle-game
C	Tactics	Blunders at East Devon
C	Praxis	Lessons from Mikhail Tal
C	Praxis	Chess with Attitude
C	Openings	Moller
C	Attack	The Very Slow King's-side Attack
C		The Solid Sicilian
C	Openings	The Petroff Defence for Beginners
C	Strategy	Exchanging to Win
C		Benonis
C	Openings	Playing White against odd Black defences after 1.e4
C	Openings	Playing Black against Queen's-Pawn Openings
C	Openings	The Dutch Stonewall
C	Openings	Custer's Last Stand
C	Endings	Rook Endings in Practice
C	Openings	Playing Black against Queen's-Pawn Openings (1) Cambridge Springs
C	Openings	Playing White against odd Black defences after 1.e4 (3)
C	Openings	Gambits
C	Openings	Playing White against odd Black defences after 1.e4 (1)
C	Openings	Playing White against odd Black defences after 1.e4 (2)
C	Openings	The Caro-Kann
C	Openings	Playing Black against Queen's-Pawn Openings (2): Semi-Slav and Exchange

Class: D
Class	Topics	Title
D	Praxis	A disaster in the Stonewall
D	Tactics	A course in chess tactics
D	Attack	Attacking the castled King
D	Coaching	Getting started with the Coaching stuff
D	Tactics	Vukovic's mates
D	Openings	Playing Black against King's-Pawn Openings (1.e4)
D	Openings	Ten rules for the opening
D	Openings	No More Old Stodge!
D	Openings	The Italian Game for beginners
D	Endings	Rook Endings in Theory
D	Praxis	General Middlegame Advice
D	Praxis	Cool Tips
D	Openings	Choosing an Opening Repertoire
D	Endings	MiddleGame Endings and Endgame Openings
D	Strategy	Rooks on ranks and files
D	Tactics	Essential checkmate patterns
D	Endings	Mate with the Two Bishops
D	Tactics	Get your eye in -- basic practice in noticing attacks
D	Openings	Four Choices in the Opening
D	Praxis	Lessons from Morphy
D	Openings	The Ulvestad Variation of the Two Knights' Defence
D	Endings	Outside passed Pawns
D	Strategy	The Fianchetto: a user's guide
D	Endings	Mate with Two Bishops
D	Openings	The French Defence for Beginners I: Key Ideas
D	Openings	No more Old Stodge! (2)
D	Endings	Queen against Pawn
D	Praxis	Bruce Rowston at work
D	Endings	Winning a drawn endgame
D	Openings	Minor Openings
D	Endings	Exchanging into King Endings
D	Tactics	Upon the pin
D	Endings	General advice on the endgame
D	Tactics	Lessons in Philidor's Defence
D	Openings	Nineteenth-Century Openings
D	Openings	Playing 1.d4 for juniors
D	Strategy	Knight outposts
D	Openings	Minor Opening Mistakes
D	Openings	A first opening repertoire
D	Strategy	Kings and Queens

Class: G
Class	Topics	Title
G	misc	Play through PGN collections
G	misc	PDF versions of handouts
G	Coaching	Book review: Danger in chess - Avni
G	Praxis	Why do we lose?
G	misc	Levels ratings and grades
G	Coaching	Chess and Psychology
G	Praxis	Clock control
G	misc	How to play chess
G		The Art of Analysis
G	techie	404 Not found
G	techie	403 Forbidden
G	books	CHRISTMAS BOOK REVIEW: last minute gifts for the unimproved player
G	Openings	A la carte
G	Tactics	Practical Tactics
G	Praxis	The Art of Analysis, Part 2
G	Endings	Two puzzles
G	Praxis	Is there luck in chess?
G	Praxis	Two Open Games
G	Openings	Play the Opening like a Champion
G	books	Book recommendations
G	Coaching	Lessons from the lost No.1s
G	misc	Semi-Random Baseline Chess
G	Praxis	The Great BICS Internet Chess Match
G	Tactics	Visualization/Analysis in Chess
G	Praxis	Lessons from Korchnoi
G	Praxis	Lessons from Anand
G	Praxis	Lessons from Carlsen
G	Praxis	Lessons from Kramnik
G	style	Lessons from Karpov
G	style	Lessons from Boris Spassky
G	Praxis	Exeter Chess Club Simul 1995
G	local	Calendars
G	Openings	Opening workshop 2018
G	misc	Chess Notation
G	Praxis	What makes a difference?
G	Praxis	Lessons from Judit Polgar
G	Praxis	Shakespeare Annotates
G	misc	Lessons from Jan Timman
G	Coaching	Lessons from World Champions and others
G	misc	Lessons from John Nunn
G	misc	Lessons from Euwe
G	misc	Lessons from Smyslov
G	misc	Lessons from Alekhin
G	Praxis	Lessons from Steinitz
G	misc	Morphy vs Steinitz
G	Openings	Opening workshop 2018 part 2
G	Praxis	Club games
G	Praxis	Random Chess Advice
G	misc	An ABC of chess
G	techie	Test canvas AOK
G	Praxis	Exeter Club Championship Rapidplay Tournament 2013-2014
G	Openings, Tactics	Lessons in Philidor's Defence - live action version
G	misc	This page intentionally left blank
G	Coaching	Coaching Summer 2014
G	Praxis	DGT XL clocks
G	Openings	Opening Workshop 2015
G	Praxis	Time trouble
G	Endings	Passed Pawn Pandemonium
G	Tactics	Tim's Tactics
G	Praxis	To take is a mistake - tension in the chess position
G	techie	FEN2diag.pl: a Perl script to convert FEN chess positions to human-readable diagrams
G	misc	Knight's Tour
G	blog	Test Theme Page
G	Praxis	Lucky escapes
G	Strategy	Middlegame gym
G	misc	Going back in time
G	misc	Exeter Club Championship & Rapidplay Tournament 2012-2013
G	Praxis	The pieces at their best
G	Praxis	The Art of Analysis, Part 1
G		Dr.Dave's Adventures at East Devon, 2013
G	Praxis	Club Championship 2014/15
G	Praxis	A chess glossary
G	Tactics	The Improving Annotator
G	Praxis	Assess Your Chess
G	Coaching	Free chess coaching videos online
G	misc	Said the Elephant to the Bishop...
G	Praxis	Exeter Chess Club Championship 2016-17
G	Praxis	Exeter Chess Club RAPIDPLAY Championship 2016-17
G	Praxis	Club competitions
G	misc	Duck Chess
G	Openings	ECO Opening codes: list with variation names
G	Praxis	What's wrong with club players? An MOT for us all
G	Tactics	Erro ergo sum: analysis and error
G	misc	Chess Coaching Summer 2011 (updated 23rd August)
G	Praxis	Club Championship 2015/16
G	Endings	Who would win in a fight between a lion and a bear? (endgame fortresses)
G	Praxis	How do Chess-Players Think?
G	Openings	Openings Workshop 2013
G	misc	The chess family tree
G	Tactics	Blunder-proofing your game
G	Tactics	Shredder/Chess Tutor Daily Chess Puzzle (IFRAME)

Quotes

XLVIX."'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and DaysWhere Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,And one by one back in the Closet lays. "Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamRendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, First Editionhttp://www.teachersoft.com/Library/poetry/fitzgrld/chapt01.htm"Impotent Pieces of the Game He playsUpon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days;

Fifth edition, http://www.nmaa.si.edu/vedder/slide37p.html There are other editions, and other translations, but none, I think, on the Web.

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