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Texas Clubs and Organizations
Texas Chess Association: They produce the excellent Texas Knights magazine--which in 1998 won the prestigious Cramer award for best state magazine--and sponsor several state tournaments, including the state championship.
Dallas Area Chess-In-Schools The DACIS promotes teaching chess in the schools, provides instruction and equipment, and organizes tournaments. If you're involved in Dallas-area scholastics (or want to be), get acquainted with these people!
Arlington Chess Club Our neighbors to the west have a club too. Click here for more information.
Watauga Chess Club is going strong. Watauga is located NE of Ft Worth.
Waco Chess Club There's some good chess south of here!
Austin Chess Enterprises or the ACE Chess Club in Austin. For that chess fix if you're heading south on Interstate 35.
Austin Chess Club newly formed and going strong. For that chess fix if you're heading south on Interstate 35.
The San Antonio Chess Club For that chess fix if you're heading further south on Interstate 35.
You don't have to walk "the streets of Laredo" as the song says, to find out what's happening in their chess club. They now have a website!The Houston Chess Club: For that chess fix if you're going way south on Interstate 45.
Rio Grande Valley Chess for chess right before you hit the Mexican border.
Schools
UT-Dallas Chess Program One of the top university chess programs in the nation
Dallas Area Chess-In-Schools The DACIS promotes teaching chess in the schools, provides instruction and equipment, and organizes tournaments. If you're involved in Dallas-area scholastics (or want to be), get acquainted with these people!
Bammel Middle School Check out what some of our young chess playing friends are up to.
Instruction(More information on local chess instruction can be found on our Region III Instructors page.)
ChessAid.com An online teaching venture of GM Kaminsky, who is currently attending UTD. The instructional staff consists of four GMs, three IMs and two NMs (at least a couple of which are local to the DFW area). The instructors offer analysis, answer questions, give lectures, and post theoretical articles--all online. There is also an e-mail course and online chat available.
IM Rade Milovanovic (New URL) Website of International Master Rade Milovanovic, mostly devoted to his teaching enterprises--his chess camps or The Chess Learning Center in Richardson Texas which opened in the Fall of 2001. IM Milovanovic has 30 years of experience in competitive chess and over 20 years of experience in training and coaching.
Books and EquipmentChess Central Website of
Dallas-based Pickard & Sons chess publishers. High quality chess books.Chess In Education Fort Worth resident Al Woolum's homepage, chess equipment dealer.
Miscellaneous
Darrell Knobloch's Tournament List Darrell Knobloch keeps track of area and national tournaments upcoming for players. Links to another list for scholastic chess tournaments.Non-Texas Links
This Week In Chess: The definitive resource for professional players. Weekly comprehensive updates of news and tournament games from across the world. Not much annotation, but the most complete collection of master level games you'll find anywhere mere days after they're played.
The University Of Pittsburgh Chess pages Extensive archives of games, programs, graphics, and desktop chess publishing etc.
USCF: The United States Chess Federations official web page, including ratings updates and the latest policy board information.
MSA: The United States Chess Federation rating page for Dallas Chess Club tournaments.
USCF Tournament Life Online Includes listings for upcoming tournaments in Texas (and elsewhere!). Also, tournament announcements received too late to make the magazine.
USCF Chess Research Bibliography A list of articles on research pertaining to the beneficial effects of chess on school performance. One copy of each can be ordered from the USCF for free.
The WBCA Homepage Visit the homepage of the World Blitz Chess Association.
Smart Chess Online Anatoly Karpov's official website. Chess products and featured articles.
InternetChess.com The Internet Chess Index has merged with Links By Harris to produce this excellent site, replete with links and articles.
The Chess Cafe One of the best chess magazines on the web. It carries regular columns by a number of excellent writers and players.
Chessopolis One of the most extensive collections of chess links on the web plus tidbits on current events.
Duif's Place Chess For Fans And Tournament Players. Includes the International Directory of Chess Teachers and Guides for Parents and Kids who play.
Chess Endings Library: A direct interface to Ken Thompson's endgame CDs that will solve all five piece and under endgames. Fire up that modem during your endgame adjournment!
Internet Chess Library: An excellent compendium of recent and historical chess games in many different database formats.
Chess Journal website devoted to teaching chess and improving one's game.
Chess Praxis Both new and used books for sell on a well-organized site. Will buy your chess books for resell.
La Mecca Chess Encyclopedia Extensive chess reference site with everything from ECO codes to players to history. Searchable.
Bruno's Chess Problem of the Day Everyday a Java applet loads a new chess problem, ranging from very easy (mate in 1) to very difficult (mate in 6 or more). Solution made available the next day. Archives of problems for previous 10 days.
FICS A free internet chess server. Some DCC members frequent it. Here you can get all the info you need to log on.
www.annakov.com GM Babakuli Annakov's site.
Pakistan Chess Player Despite the title of the site, this is an all-'round chess news site with games to download, results of ongoing tournaments and a discussion board.
The Chess Portal A collection of chess links for a wide-variety of sites, well organized and sorted.