Annotated Chess Games

Occasionally Quixote's Horse (a.k.a. 'The Hack') will post a flash movie of an annotated chess game. These are just screen captures of the game being played out with my favourite free PGN viewer: Chesspad. Once you start the movie, it will automatically stop at each annotation. To resume the play simply click to continue...

• B. Profit - W. Coppin, Kingston Championship 2003, Clarendon Court Defence

• W. Coppin - F. Dixon, Kingston Championship 2001, Sokolsky (1.b4) Opening

Interesting Sites

The currency of these links are not guaranteed. Chess players seem to move about more than most. :-) We will be reviewing these links as time permits and weeding out links that are no longer working. Should you happen to find one or more nonfunctioning links, please drop the Webmaster a line advising us. We will fix it immediately. Note also that ours is not an exhaustive list of chess links. There are literally thousands of chess related sites on the web. Needless to say, this collection is a subjective list- your actual mileage may vary.

Must Visit

• The Week In Chess
  Mark Crowther's news, analysis, politics and more! Now sponsored by the London Chess Centre
• Steve Pribut's Chess Page
  He moved. We found him again. :-) Steve has one of the most comprehensive sources for FAQs, etc. on the web
• The Chess Cafe
  Great columnists. A real treat.
• The Chess Lab
  Enable your java and research two million interactive chess games online.
• Tim Krabbé's Chess Curiosities
  Prepare to spend hours enthralled, fascinated and amazed at the inexhaustible charms of the Royal Game.
• U. of Pitt.
  A little dated but still serious ftp database file source!
• Chess Knights
  If you are into online chess, Chess Knights is free and competitive. Play as an individual or part of a team. My team is the Beer Drinkers.

Personal Recommendations

• Chess Circle
  Chesscircle.net is the hottest new community site for one of the world's most popular games, Chess! Chess forums, tutorials, articles, downloads... an impressive resource.
• Sam Sloan's Page
  Colourful, opinionated, timely- You will love this site... or hate it! We wish he would lose the annoying background music.
• Chess is Fun
  Superb instruction from C.C. Master Jon Edwards. Unfortunately the site uses frames and is not Firefox friendly. Grab the IE rendering engine addon from the Firefox site and open in an IE tab.
• Chess'n Math
  Larry Bevand is doing great work for youth chess in Canada!
• ChessKIDS Acadamy
  A great resource for developing players (and their teachers too!)
• Chessville.com
  Chessville.com is a large, comprehensive site meeting a wide variety of chess-related needs, including instruction and advice, chess news, a huge and clearly-organized collection of chess-related web links, downloads, reviews, trivia and history, a very active discussion forum, an online chess league, Fantasy Chess, and more!
• Canadian players
  Hugh Brodie seems to move around a bit but it is worth hunting him down. This link has databases of every major Canadian player's games as well hard to duplicate game collections from various Canadian chess magazines. Thanks Hugh!

Associations and Clubs

• F.I.D.E.
  The World Chess Federation (Federation Internationale des Echecs, known as FIDE from its French acronym)
• I.C.C.F.
  The International Correspondence Chess Federation
• C.F.C.
  Chess Federation of Canada
• F.Q.E.
  Fédération québécoise des échecs. Some of Canada's strongest here.
• The Kingston Chess Club
  OK - I borrowed the look from this site. Hey! I designed them both. :-)
• Manitoba Chess Association
  A classy site with some surprises.
• 4 Nations Chess League
  Britain's premier chess league
• The Canadian Correspondence Chess Association
  National tournament news, results etc.

More Interesting Links

• Canadian Chess
  David Cohen has put together the mother of all Canadian chess trivia sites.
• Chess Informant
  For serious tournament players only!
• Eric Schiller
  The prolific, often witty and usually thought provoking author of more than two dozen popular chess books holds court here.
• Chess Assistant
  Home of my preferred chess database.
• REBEL Chess Program
  REBEL DECADE 3.0 is free - the only limitation is that it will play 200 elo points less stronger except on each Friday when it will play at full strength. It will kick your butt any day of the week!
• Duif's Place
  Chess for Fans, Tournament Players and Chess Coaches
• CC-IM John C. Knudsen's Correspondence Chess
  If you are a fan of correspondence chess and have not been here in a while, check it out.
• GM Judit Polgar
  Perhaps the strongest female to have ever played the game. This GM is also photogenic. :-)
• Diemer-Duhm Gambit
  A look at an offbeat line- caveat emptor :-)
• The University of Alberta GAMES Group
  Interested in learning the ins and outs of programming for strategy based games? This is the place to start.
• Stuart the Maniac's Chess Closet
  The title says it all :-)
• Manolis Stratakis Chess Problems
  From beautiful downtown Heraklio, Crete, Greece

Brief Biography

Quixote's Horse (a.k.a. Wayne A. Coppin, WACy and 'The Hack') is an Expert strength player and chess coach. My games tend to feature sharp, unusual opening lines. I admire the games of GM Robert J. Fischer, GM David Bronstein, GM Judith Polgar and IM Lawrence Day. My most notable tournament result was arguably not a tournament victory but rather an equal 13th placing in the Canadian Open in 1993. My most recent tournament victory was the 2008 Kingston Fall Swiss. The last major tournament that I played in was the 2006 Canadian Open where I finished equal 2nd in my class. My students consistently turn in medal winning performances in spite of my best efforts to confuse them. :-)

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