Chess and Online Nonsense
 

Chess

    Chess Clocks

Analog Timer

Digital Timer

    Chess Sets

Inexpensive Pavilion Glass Chess Set

Shot Glass Chess Set

Monarch Chess Set in Boxwood and Ebony

Hand Crafted Walnut Chess Set

    Chess Books - Strategy

Chess Openings - We suggest Modern Chess Openings by Nick De Firmian and one other by Reuban Fine: Ideas Behind the Chess Openings.

Middle Game - We suggest My System by Nimzowitch.

Chess Endings - The best are Muller's Fundamental Chess Endings and Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual.

Openings - Middle Game - Endings - Best choice is The Art of Logical Thinking by McDonald.

Major Chess Themes - Chess Strategy in Action by John Watson.

Chess Strategy for Beginning Chess Players - Learn from  Bobby Fischer.

Sophisticated Strategies for Advanced Masters - The two most highly regarded by masters worldwide: Art of Attack in Chess by Vukovic and Chess Praxis by Nimzowitch.

Analysis of Grandmaster Games - Winning Chess Brilliancies - suberb analyses by Seirawan of 12 among the greatest of grandmaster matches.

Deep Blue vs. Kasparov - Kasparov and Deep Blue by Pandolfini. This is the singular most well-regarded text in the analyses of Deep Blue vs. Kasparov. All six matches. Kasparov announced his retirement from professional chess on March 15, 2005.

The Chess Classic by Grandmaster Tarrasch.

    Chess Software

Fritz 8 - The one Kasparov uses. Most serious players who analyze their game with a computer program agree Fritz 8 is singularly superior to Chessmaster 9000.

Virtual Kasparov is a great game for young kids.

    Chess History Online

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Computer Chess

Logical Chess

    Other Chess

Play the computer on line. Beginner to intermediate.

 

Compete for Cash.

All Variety of Free Online Nonsense

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    Classics   Courtesy of Paul Neaves who has an extraordinary website.

Asteroids   Arrow keys to maneuver. Space bar to fire.

Hexxagon   Left click mouse. Fill the board.

Simon   Left click mouse. Follow the lamps.

Snake   Arrow keys to maneuver. Space bar to pause.

Tetris   Fill the rows.

             Left/right arrow keys to move left/right.

             Down arrow key to accelerate descent.

                  Top arrow key to turn object.

Tic Tac Toe

    Editorial Amusement

        Here a laugh, there something to ponder. Scratch.

    Fun with JavaScript

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How to Know If You're an Ant

Alien Bumper Stickers

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    Ghost Hunt

Help Vio find the fair. The most difficult easiest game on earth.

The Royal Flush of Internet casinos. Games are free to download. You don't have to gamble to play.

    Word Games

The Dictionary Game - to which Balderdash produced its alternative. No need to unshell a lot of dough though. Learn to play the free original ghost version. Of the few who know it some prefer it. It's a few hours of hearty laughter either way.

Text Twist

 

Language games, according to Wittgenstein, define and empower.

Fun Motley

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We live in an eerily stupid world. It is the constant Einstein missed before his nose. Most merits no pity. Such as these who've had none, finding imagination convenient to doing well for themselves.

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