Author Archives: Snodland Chess Club

Snodland’s New Online Chess Server!!

You will now see a new menu item titled “Online Blitz”.

This is a very exciting development for the club, as incredibly soon, members will be emailed a password to access this page, where there will be details on how to connect to Snodland Chess Club’s very own private room on the playchess webserver!!

On our private webserver any member of the club will be able to create an account, entirely for free.  They will then be able to play online blitz and chat to all other members that are online.

In time, I will organise some online blitz tournaments/matches.

Keep your eyes peeled for an email containing the access password and see me this Thursday for more info.

A Structure That Furnishes Houses

That’s the title of Steve Giddins’ latest weekly column over at chessimprover.com, this week looking at the structure arising from the QGD exchange variation.

As always Steve’s column is very instructive, please check it out.

For those of you who don’t know or haven’t heard of it before, chessimprover.com is owned by GM Nigel Davies, author of many books and Chessbase training DVDs and has many regular contributors on all aspects of improving your chess.

If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don’t rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw.  –  Jeremy Silman