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Zachary Uram wrote:
> 
> internet has much opportunity to teach beginners chess. i also hear can play free
> chess on internet? what websites/programs will let me play chess
> at free or nominal cost and have nice GUI and let me save moves
> from a game and allow me to replay movies of past games.

GNUchess http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess.html is free of course.
As is Crafty (but we don't talk about that much in this newsgroup 8-).
There are plenty of other free chess programs, but those two are
probably easiest to get hold off.

Tim Mann's http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/personal/mann/chess.html
Winboard and xboard let you use either gnuchess or Crafty on either Unix
or MS Windows systems.

"www.freechess.org" is a good place to look for free on-line games, and
pointers to similar resources, or just ask questions about the programs
mentioned above.

> also how can i learn chess? rather than just intuitively fumbling around
> is there better way to play/learn?

Well FICS (freechess.org) has some on-line lectures, but nothing beats a
good book.

I think the best one I had was by CHOD Alexander (I believe he was the
one who put the D-Day codewords in the times Crossword - alledgedly).

Anyway Dr Dave always has some good book ideas and lots of training
material.

http://www.ex.ac.uk/sheu/DR/chess.html

	HTH

	Simon
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