Chess and Chess Computers
How to try and Beat Chess Computers
Article written for a training session at Exeter Chess Club by Simon Waters on how to defeat the evil iron monsters. The author has since been defeated by his telephone.
Exeter Chess Club Website
Dave Regis is an active member of Exeter Chess club who had produced an extensive web site dedicated to all aspects of Chess. The club now has its own domain name, and is hosted on the technocool server, Dave has graciously moved the site here from his personal webspace at Exeter University, making it look like the clubs effort rather than "mostly Dave". I've been helping(?) Dave update the site, fixing up those broken links etc.
In general assume the good bits are down to Dave's hard work and the "Errors and Omissions" are probably due to me trying to fix things, cleaning up the link rot, or dragging the HTML from 3.2beta into something more modern.
SCID Chess Database
As a free software fanatic I must encourage you to try SCID, Shane's Chess Information Database. It provides a comprehensive chess database, which I have used to prepare the opening book for GNU Chess, as well as improve my own opening play.
Where to play chess on the Internet?
The keenest will sign up for the Internet Chess Server - and get the highest levels of competition. The Free Internet Chess server (FICS) offers free access, but the software and interfaces for these sites often leave the Internet or Computing beginner cold. Fortunately the Java board saves having too download or install complex software.