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Bill Wall's Chess Articles

1969 (Chess in 1969)
19th Century Chess
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
al-Adli (shatranj player)
Alekhine and the Nazis
Alekhine's Shorts (Alekhine's short chess games)
Alekhine's Writings
Amar (Paris) Opening 1.Nh3
Amsterdam and Chess
Anderssen's Opening 1.a3
Annoying Your Opponent - best techniques (humor)
APCT Chess Miniatures
Art and Chess (Wall)
Artificial Intelligence and Chess
Asimov and Chess
Automatons of chess - Turk, Ajeeb, Mephisto
Bad Chess (How Bad is Your Chess)
Best Games of Chess
Best Players of All Time (Bill Wall's list of 100 best chess players)
Blackburne Shilling Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4)
Blindfold Chess
Bogart and Chess
Books, New (humor)
Bourdonnais - McDonnell match (London, 1834)
David Bronstein (1924-2006)
Budapest Defense (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5) (Wall's Budapest games)
Cable Chess
Cambridge Springs 1904 Tournament history and games
Capablanca-Marshall, NY 1918 Marshall Attack
Capablanca's Endgame Boner (from Chess Fundamentals, page 14, example 8)
Celebrities and Chess (humor)
Chess.com (Chess Community)
Chess books and articles written by Bill Wall
Chess Hall of Fame
Chessmen (a brief history of chess pieces)
Chess Olympics
Chess Players (birth, death, age, cause of death)
Chronology of Chess (history of chess)
Combe, Robert (forgotten British chess champion)
Combinations (Bill Wall's Chess Combinations)
Composers of Chess
Computer Chess History
Countries and Countries I Have Played in chess
Countries that are members of FIDE
Death of chess players
DEEP BLUE (chess computer)
Definitions in chess (humor)
Denker, Arnold (1914-2005)
Dubrovnik 1950 (9th Chess Olympiad)
Duchamp (Marcel Duchamp and Chess)
Durkin's Attack 1.Na3
Earliest Chess Games
Eccentric Chess Players
Einstein and Chess
Excuses in chess
Epigrams of Chess (chess quotes and sayings)
Famous people and celebrities who play chess
FIDE History
Fireside Chess
Firsts in chess
Fischer, Bobby (1943-2008) (bio)
Fischer references on the Web
Fischer's Early Chess Games (1953-1958)
Fischer's games (pgn format)
Fischer's chess opponents
Fischer's losses (table)
Fischer's losses (Games)
Fischer's tournament and match record
Franklin and Chess (Benjamin Franklin and Chess)
Geography of Chess
Google Chess Books (full view chess books)
Grandmaster chess miniatures (short games of GMs in pgn format)
Grob (over 400 games beginning with 1.g4)
Eduard Gufeld (1936-2002)
Hackers and Chess
Heart Attacks and Chess
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)
The Immortal Game - A Review (book by David Shenk)
IQ and Chess
Joys of Chess
KAISSA Chess Computer Program (a history)
Knight Moves (endings involving a knight)
Kubrick and Chess (Stanley Kubrick)
Larsen's Opening (short games with 1.b3)
Larsen's Opening II (recent short games in pgn format)
Lawsuits and chess politics
Learning Age of Chess (chess players and when they learned chess)
Levy and Computers (David Levy and his bet)
limericks
Literature (Fiction) in chess (a list of authors)
Chess and Literature
Losing (Why you lose at chess)
Manhattan Chess Club (quick history)
Marshall Chess Club Champions
Masters of Chess - A Profile (Alekhine, Anderssen, Blackburne, Boleslavsky, Botvinnik, etc)
Miniatures (10 moves or less in PDF format - thanks to IM Jovan Petronic)
Miniatures (10 moves or less) (over 2,100 games)
Miniatures II (11 to 13 moves)
Morphy bio
Morphy's Laws of Chess (humor)
Morphy's Opponents
Movies With Chess Scenes (over 1,700 movies)
Music and chess
Napoleon and Chess
1. Nc3 (Dunst - Opening name, variation names, and number of games)
New Orleans and chess
Nicknames of chessplayers
Nobel Prize Winners and Chess
Not Only Chess
Notation, Chess (descriptive and algebraic)
Nottingham 1936 (won by Botvinnik and Capablanca)
Occupations and chess players
Occupations of chess players (sorted by player)
Old In Chess (old, older, oldest in chess)
Olympics - Chess
Opening Frequency
Opening (by eco)
Opening (by moves)
Opening (by name)
Orangutan Opening (1.b4) (some short games)
Players (Grandmasters, International Masters, etc)
postal chess
Presidents Involved in Chess
Principles of Chess
Pronounce that chess word
Quarterly for Chess History articles (article, volume, page)
Quiz (Off the Wall Chess Quiz)
Records in Chess
Reinfeld and Chess (includes a list of Reinfeld's books)
Relatives and Spouses of Chess Masters
Religion and chess
Resigning in chess (humor)
Rice Gambit
Robespierre and Chess
Rogoff, Ken Grandmaster and Economist
Rou, Lewis and the lost manuscript
Russian/Soviet Chess
Scachs d'Amor (Catalan poem of the 15th century)
Searching for Bobby Fischer (Josh Waitzkin) trivia
Sevastianov, Vitaly (Cosmonaut and Chess Enthusiast)
Shakespeare and chess
Shatranj
Short Games of Chess 1
Short Games of Chess 2
Short Games of Chess 3
Short Games of Chess 4
Short Games of Chess 5
Short Games of Chess 6
Short Games of Chess 7
Short Games of Chess 8
Short Games of Chess 9
Short Games of Chess 10
Short Games of Chess 11
Short Games of Chess 12
Short Games of Chess 13
Short Games of Chess 14
Short Games of Chess 15
Short Games of Chess 16
Short Games of Chess 17
Short Games of Chess 18
Short Games of Chess 19
Short Games of Chess 20
Short Games of Chess 21
Short Games of Chess 22
Short Games 23
Short Games 24
Short Games 25
Sleipner International News (1.Nc3 by Anker Aasum)
Stamps - Chess
Staunton Chess Design
Staunton Chess Pieces, A History by Sean Evans
Staunton vs Saint Amant (Paris 1843)
Team Chess Names
Traps and Chess Miniatures (14 moves or less)
Traps and Miniatures (15 moves or more)
Treasure Chess book review by Lawrence Totaro
Trivia, Chess (by Bill Wall)
Unorthodox Openings
Unusual Opening Miniatures (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)
Who's Who in Chess
Who's Who in New England Chess
Widow, Chessplayer (humor)
Women and Chess
World War II and Chess
Zweig and the Royal Game

CONTACT

Bill Wall
bill_wall@bellsouth.net