My new chess.com review
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on Thu, 10/29/2009 at 12:52am.
Launched on May 2007 chess.com as already established as one of the biggest chess websites online!
It as a huge amount of news articles related with everything that happens in the chess world.
Great learning tutorials in text and even in video, most of those made by real chess masters.
Chess.com offers several options to play chess online for free, from the online chess that works as correspondence chess where a player as from 1 to 14 days per move.
If you prefer faster action you can switch to their live chess room were you will find above 1000 players active during all day and night playing blitz and bullet chess games.
But what makes a site really become great is not what their creator makes for the website, but by the activity level of the community, and it can’t get much larger than ches.com already has. Their free web forum as around 600.000 posts and 40,000 threads! In the forum we will find chess players from all around the world just exchanging messages, ideas, and suggestions or just asking for some help in any particular issue.
Chess.com is not only entertaining as a tool to play and talk to our friends, chess.com works as magic in aiding players of any strength to improve their levels. The best tool chess.com as to offer in my opinion is the TT (Tactics Trainer) where you have more than 10000! Tactics problems to solve and you get rated by the way you unravel every puzzle and the time you take on doing it!
TT is far from being the only tool that chess.com as to offer to help us improve our game; we will also get tons of annotated games by the masters! Including the game of the week where the staff will search on all the weekly games played at top level, to give us what they consider the most instructive game of them all, always highly annotated by masters.
If you love books, you are going to love the Chess Mentor tool, it consists on chess classes written by top trainers and masters, on several subjects that will most likely improve your understanding of the game and help you get practical results!
For the ones that are looking for more professional/advanced looking solutions for training they can use two great tools the Game Explorer which will allow everyone to search the entire chess.com database to positions that happened in real games, allowing everyone to follow the moves and see how the game progressed and the ideas used on that particular position.
The other great professional tool from chess.com is the Book Openings. In it we get access to virtually all opening moves that have theory associated to them, and see the theory lines as they develop through the game.
If you are looking for anything chess related you will find it in chess.com I must suggest you to give it a try and visit it here
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