Little girl on big chess board

Amy on the big chess board at the Central Florida Zoo in Sanford.

Creative Commons picture from kellyv's photostream

Kasparov - Topalov, Wijk aan Zee, 1999

This may be the best game of Garry Kasparov. I use it to demonstrate some of the possibilities of the Chess Game Viewer. Another example of this game viewer with two chess boards and more NAG symbols can be found here, but it can also be used for puzzles like a mate in two problem.



One of Garry's best games.

Chess

Chess taken from a very low perspective, Free Creative Common by Μøỳαл_Bгεлл

Dynamic HTML Chess PGN Viewer

Recently this site was mentioned at Chess Improvement, which made that I had a look at this site and found two examples of the use of a the Dynamic HTML Chess PGN Viewer on a WordPress site. The most interesting example was this game. This looks like a very nice and promising way to publish chess games on a blog, but at first sight there are three rather large disadvantages:

1. You have to be able to host the pgn, javascript, php and html files on a site.
2. PHP has to be supported on this site
3. The use of an iframe to get this done, makes that all the code has to be loaded within each iframe

Summarize: I think that this can not be used on a blogspot/blogger site, but if you host your own WordPress site it may be interesting to further look at this alternative.

It's probably not needed to mention here, but in case you are new and haven't read the previous posts: The BlogSpot Chess Game Viewer from this site can be used on these Blogger/Blogspot sites.

Library chess set

This photo was taken on March 5, 2008 by Muffet. She wandered into the Young Adult room of the local library. They had a nifty chess set on the table. Since she was the only person in the room, she stopped and took this picture.

All sizes of this photo are available for download under a Creative Commons license.

Chess Game Viewer

This post demonstrates some of the possibilities of the Chess Game Viewer. It contains two chess boards as well as NAG symbols, comments and variations.







The remaining moves of this game will be shown in the second diagram for which I will use a different background.







Btw the game above is the game Lewis William - Wilson Harry Slater and it was played in 1819.



See the post about the Chess Game and Diagram Viewer and the links in this post if you want to learn how to publish chess games on your own site.

Tower Of London Chess Set

This photo was taken on September 5, 2009 by DaveKav and published on Flickr. All sizes of this photo are available for download from his photosteam under a Creative Commons license, but some rights are reserved by DaveKav.

This is a very beautiful chess set, but it's so beautiful that it probably prevents me to think about the moves.