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50 Chess Games for
Beginners February 9, 2003
"50 Chess Games for Beginners" is an animated chess tutorial program for new players who wish to improve their game. It provides fully annotated examples of games illustrating good chess tactics and strategies and is particularly suitable for children or junior players. We include descriptions of chess notation, standard chess openings, chess grading, and much more. There is a free chess competition for visitors. It is written by two enthusiasts, who have taken up Chess over the past couple of years. We offer a guided tour through 50 games (recorded as we went through the learning process), showing our successes and failures; our brilliant flashes of inspiration; and our inexplicable blunders. We have analysed the games to bring out basic chess principles and strategies. The games are presented, warts and all, with no editing or tidying up. We hope that visitors, particularly new chess players, can learn something worthwhile from studying these games. This website is provided free of charge, for addicts and wannabes alike. The only condition is that if you find it interesting or useful you send us an e-mail telling us what you liked. Suggestions for improvement are always welcome. Enjoy your visit - and come back soon." - Douglas and Ian MacGregor Ian was around 10-12 years old at the time this site was created, as near as I can gather, and Douglas is his father. They did such a great introduction to their site (above), I found no way to improve upon it. The meat and potatoes of this site are the games, each carefully annotated at virtually every move. The game pages load slowly (over 500 Kb) so be patient. These are games played by the authors between 1999-2001. The two players themselves are rated up to 1125,and the annotations reflect that ability level. Still, for the beginning chessplayer, there is much to be learned here. These games make an excellent precursor to more advanced beginning game annotations, such as Chessville's Janitor Jim series, in that they start the reader thinking about what the author's have to say, and therefore about how someone else is thinking about the game. Other features of the site include a Game of the Month contest, where readers are asked to submit their own games; the winner each month gets their game published with annotations on the site. An explanation of algebraic notation, a printable scoresheet (which did not print properly for me), Ian's favorite chess problem, some comments on rating systems, a list of ECO codes, and a poem round out the site's offerings. If you're looking for a good place to start a beginner off
looking at annotated games, try
50 Chess
Games for Beginners.
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