Chess Links And Resources

Organizations

New Hampshire Chess Association
The New Hampshire Chess Association (NHCA) is a non-profit organization whose primary goal is to promote chess in the state of New Hampshire.
United States Chess Federation
The United States Chess Federation (USCF) is the official, not-for-profit US membership organization for chess players and chess supporters of all ages and strengths, from beginners to Grandmasters. The, USCF has grown to over 80,000 members and 2,000+ affiliated chess clubs and organizations today.
FIDE: World Chess Federation
Founded in Paris on 20 July 1924, the World Chess Federation is recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the supreme body, responsible for the organization of chess and its championships at global and continental levels.

Drakensang Online
A must vist chess site where you can find a large library of interesting, educational, and just plain facinating chess information guaranteed to capture the attention of and provide enjoyment to any chess enthusiest.
handmadechess
A wonderfully interesting, instructive, and educational chess site focusing on the construction and design of hand made chess pieces and boards. Well worth a visit.
The Internet Chess Club (ICC)
The Internet Chess Club is the longest running, most popular, and best place to play chess on the Internet.
PlayChess.com
The most popular chess server in the world. More than 5000 players online every night. 200,000 games per day.
Chess Corner: World Chess Champions
A wonderful web site and resource detailing the former world chess champions and the opportunity to view thousands of their games.
ChessBase: Online Database
A chess viewer that allows you to make moves creating a position, and then search for games that took place with that position.
MyChess.com: Online Database
Another excellent chess viewer that allows many types of game lookup for viewing and positional study.
American Chess School: Free Research Summary
Educators around the world acknowledge that chess is a powerful tool for developing higher order thinking skills, creativity, numerical and verbal aptitudes, and memory. Now, you can have the documentation to support your belief in the positive value of chess.

Jose Chess
An excellent FREE chess program. Jose Chess is attractive and offers many options, allowing you to play chess against the computer.
ChessCat
ChessCat is a PC program for reading and writing chess games using Portable Game Notation (PGN). ChessCat is both a PGN viewer and writer, and is free for personal use.
Chess World PGN Downloads
An interesting collection of chess games sorted by opening or defense in PGN format. A program such as ChessCat is useful for viewing them.
MyFreeGames.com
Another interesting collection of chess games sorted by opening or defense, and also featuring certain Grandmaster's games by name, all in PGN format. A program such as ChessCat is useful for viewing them.

Knights Chess Club Flier
This is the Knights Chess Club flier that you may download, print, and distribute to help spread the word.
Score Sheets
These score sheets are saved as an Adobe PDF file. If you have the Adobe reader installed on your computer you can open and print them.
Score Sheets 2
These score sheets are saved as an Adobe PDF file. Another choice of printable score sheets in a slightly different format.
Chess Basic Moves and Captures
This is a very basic document in PDF format. Basic instructions on how the chess pieces move and capture. Includes some information on checking and checkmate.
Chess Basic Moves and Captures 2
Another very basic document in PDF format offering basic instructions on piece movement from a slightly different perspective.
Chess Research Summary: Student Benefits
A factually detailed document siting many of the studies that have been done explaining the benefits of chess on school students.