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Most net-savvy chessplayers know of Bill Wall's web site.  It's jam packed with some of the most fascinating chess stuff I've ever seen collected in one spot.  Topics covered there include everything from opening analysis & games on some unorthodox openings (1.b4, the Blackburne-Schilling Gambit, etc.), to techniques for annoying your opponent, to a chronology of chess to biographies of some famous & not-so-famous players.  For a complete list of links to Bill's pages, click here.

Chessville is proud to introduce you to Bill Wall's Wonderful World of Chess!  On these pages you'll find entertainment, enlightenment, and plenty of just plain old fascinating stuff.  Bill writes, "Welcome to Bill Wall's wonderful world of chess, with future articles and anecdotes about chess.  Myself, I have been playing chess since the 1960s as a teenager and hopelessly addicted to chess."

Hang on, the ride starts now....

Addicted to Chess

The Age of Learning Chess

Celebrities and Chess

Chess in the Movies

Quick Dutch Lessons

Quick French Lessons

Quick Italian Lessons

Quick Spanish Lessons

Strange But True

Chess and other Occupations

Bill Walls Chess Site

• Chess Links (over 600 chess links)

• 1.b4 - A Short History of an Unusual Opening

• 100 Classic King's Gambit Miniatures

• ACM Computer Chess (history of ACM computer chess events)

• Addicted to Chess (humor)

• Age of Chess Masters

• Ajeeb the Automaton

• Alekhine and the Nazis

• Alekhine's Shorts (Alekhine's short chess games)

• Alekhine's Writings

• Amar or Paris Opening (1.Nh3)

• Annoying Your Opponent - best techniques (humor)

• APCT Chess Miniatures

• Art and Chess (Wall)

• Automatons of chess - Turk, Ajeeb, Mephisto

• Bad Chess (How Bad is Your Chess)

• Beavis and Butthead chess

• Best Games of Chess

• The Bishop

• Blackburne Shilling Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4)

• Blackmar-Diemer Links (1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4)

• Blindfold Chess

• Bogart and Chess

• Books, New (humor)

• Bourdonnais - McDonnell match (London, 1834)

• Bourdonnais-McDonnell annoatated games

• Brain Games links (Kasparov-Kramnik, London 2000)

• Budapest Traps

• Cambridge Springs 1904 Tournament history and games

• Capablanca-Marshall, NY 1918 Marshall Attack

• Chess books written by Bill Wall (29 books)

• Chess Hall of Fame

• Chessmen (a brief history of chess pieces)

• Chess Olympics

• Chess Players (birth, death, age, cause of death)

• Chronology of Chess (Wall)

• Classic Chess Sampler CD - recommended (A review by Bill Wall)

• Combe, Robert (forgotten British chess champion)

• Comments on my home page

• Composers of Chess

• Computer Chess History

• Death of chess players

• DEEP BLUE (chess computer)

• DEEP BLUE vs Kasparov (match 1)

• DEEPER BLUE vs Kasparov (match 2 - Deep Blue wins)

• Definitions in chess (humor)

• Denker, Arnold (1914-2005)

• Dunst Opening (1.Nc3)

• Durkin's Opening (1.Na3)

• Earliest Chess Games

• Eccentric Chess Players

• Einstein and Chess

• Excuses in chess

• Epigrams of Chess (chess quotes and sayings)

• Famous people who play chess

• FIDE History

• Fireside Chess

• Firsts in chess

• Fischer, Bobby (bio)

• Fischer's Early Chess Games (1953-1958)

• Fischer's tournament and match record

• Games, Chess (19th century chess games and tourneys)

• Grob (over 400 games beginning with 1.g4)

• Eduard Gufeld (1936-2002) by Wall

• Hermann Helms, Dean of American Chess

• Histogram of chess ratings

• History of Chess - Earliest Chess References and Books

• Horoscope for chess players (humor)

• The Immortal Game (Anderssen-Kieseritzky, London 1851

• KAISSA Chess Computer Program (a history)

• Kasparov -Kramnik Games (Brain Games, London) (PGN)

• Kasparov-Kramnik trivia

• Knight Moves (endings involving a knight)

• Larsen's Opening (short games with 1.b3)

• Larsen's Opening (Wall's 1.b3 games)

• Levy and Computers (David Levy and his bet)

• limericks

• Literature (Fiction) in chess

• Losing (Why you lose at chess)

• Manhattan Chess Club (quick history)

• Masters of Chess - A Profile (Alekhine, Anderssen, Blackburne, Boleslavsky, Botvinnik, etc)

• Morphy bio

• Morphy's chess links

• Morphy's Laws of Chess

• Movies With Chess Scenes

• Music and chess

• Nicknames of chessplayers

• Not Only Chess

• Notation, Chess (descriptive and algebraic)

• Nottingham 1936 (won by Botvinnik and Capablanca)

• Occupations of chess players

• Old In Chess (old, older, oldest in chess)

• Olympics - Chess

• Opponents, Chess Players, and Chess Friends

• Opening Frequency

• Opening Names

• Orangutan Opening (1.b4) (some short games)

• Philidor's Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 - some miniatures)

• postal chess

• Presidents Involved in Chess

• Principles of Chess

• Pronounce that chess word

• 2.Qh5 (1.e4 e5 2.Qh5)

• Quarterly for Chess History articles (article, volume, page)

• Quiz (Off the Wall Chess Quiz)

• Reinfeld and Chess (includes a list of Reinfeld's books)

• Religion and chess

• Resigning in chess (humor)

• Reti Opening Miniatures

• Rice Gambit

• Robespierre and Chess

• Ruy Lopez, Bird variation

• Ruy Lopez, Schliemann variation

• Saint George's Defense (1.e4 a6)

• Scotch on the Rocks (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 - some miniatures)

• Searching for Bobby Fischer (Josh Waitzkin) trivia

• Sevastianov, Vitaly (Cosmonaut and Chess Enthusiast)

• Shakespeare and chess

• Short Games of Chess I (100 short games)

• Short Games of Chess II (100 short games)

• Short Games of Chess III (100 short games)

• Short Games of Chess IV (100 short games)

• Short Games of Chess V (100 short games)

• Short Games of Chess VI (100 short games)

• Short Games of Chess VII (over 500 short games)

• Sicilian, Dragon

• Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5)

• Stamps - Chess

• Staunton Chess Design

• Staunton Chess Pieces, A History by Sean Evans

• Staunton vs Saint Amant (Paris 1843)

• The Collected Works of Wilhelm Steinitz CD-ROM by Sid Pickard - A Review

• Team Chess Names

• The Weak In Chess (Wall's short games)

• Traps and Chess Miniatures (14 moves or less)

• Traps and Miniatures (15 moves or more)

• Two Knights Defense Variation Names

• Trivia, Chess (by Bill Wall)

• Unorthodox Openings (Off the Wall Openings)

• Unusual Opening Minaitures (1.a3; 1.a4; 1.Na3; 1.b4; 1.c3; 1.Nc3; 1.d3; 1.e3; 1.f3; 1.g3; 1.g4; 1.h3; 1.h4; 1.Nh3)

• US Chess Champions

• US Championship, 1845 games (Stanley vs Rousseau)

• US Open, 1970 (Boston)

• USA vs USSR radio match, 1945

• Wall's chess bio

• Wall's chess tournament and match record

• Wall's selected games of chess (1969-2004)

• Walls' who play chess

• Ware's Defense (1.e4 a5)

• The Weinsteins (Raymond, Norman, and Garik)

• Widow, Chessplayer (humor)

• World War II and Chess

• Zweig and the Royal Game

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