FREE electronic chess book for beginners!!!!!!!!

A FREE electronic chess book for beginners. Written by an International Master, the book contains lots of animated graphics and easy to follow explanations. The book is fun to read, but what makes this an out of the ordinary book (apart from being FREE!) is that you also get free on-line support for it!

Ok, but what type of on-line support?

- State of the art Free on-line quizzes to check whether you've assimilated the lessons.

- Replies to all chess related questions which you might have after reading the book, such as the explanation of a term or idea, additional material on a particular subject, etc.

Why pay to learn the basics of chess when you can get it for free? Try it!

Here is the link, enjoy!!:

Have you heard about the chessboard paradox?

If you have, well then there's really no point reading on, but if you haven't, it is a very confusing mathematical paradox involving the chessboard.

Here's what I'm going to do: I will cut up the chessboard with three straight cuts (left). Now, I'll rearrange the pieces into a rectangle (right).

The area on the left is 8x8=64. But the area on the right is 5x13=65. What is going on?!

The trick is connected to mathematics involving the Fibonacci sequence and its related Cassini's identity. Oh, and there is a mistake somewhere, because 64 obviously does not equal 65.

Click here for Answer:

The use of e-score sheets?

I would like everyone to give their thoughts on the subject!!! I feel that they just find, but there has been some issues of them in the chess world of late. A kid using a MonRoi gets in trouble, here is the link to the article:

http://www.stlchess.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1197

Let's hear what you think!!!

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New chess links

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