Link Headings

Chess Clubs
Chess Learning Links
Women's Chess
Online Chess
Chess Stores
General Chess Articles and Sites
More Sites with Chess Links

Chess Clubs

The official USCF website. www.uschess.org

The Wisconsin Chess Association (WCA), the state affiliate to the US Chess Federation (USCF), home page. It has useful information about the Wisconsin chess scene. http://home.wi.rr.com/joseph9617/wca/ Including Wisconsin Chess Club links: http://home.wi.rr.com/joseph9617/wca/games/clubs.html

The Waukesha Chess Club home page http://www.execpc.com/~jthorson/wcc

One of the nicer club Web pages in Wisconsin. www.greenbaychess.org/

Illinois Chess. www.illinoischess.org

Arlen Walker's website, which provides news and features on the Milwaukee Chess Front. http://members.aol.com/milwchess/index.html

This is a directory of all the Collegiate affiliate chess clubs in the USCF. www.uschess.org/directories/collegiate.html#WI

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Chess Learning Links

Too cheap to purchase a database of chess games? Try this place for a bare-bones search of games. www.chessdigest.com

If you've ever wanted to try something new in chess, this excellent site will give you an idea how to proceed. www.chessvariants.com/

The website of former World Champion Garry Kasparov. Feature tons of interesting stuff, if you can stomach all of the commercial hype. www.kasparovchess.com/

The Week In Chess. The website known throughout the chess world simply as TWIC. This site features daily updates, and is the first site to check for international chess. http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html

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Women's Chess

A website devoted to the top Women in the Chess World: GrandMaster Judit Polgar www.1001knights.com/ChessChick/

Another site by and for women. www.chessgoddesses.com/cgjpolgarhome.htm

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Online Chess

USCF Live Chess wesite. A site where you may play chess if you have a USCF membership. Features games with Internationally known GrandMasters and great competitive play. www.uschesslive.org

World Chess Network is a great place to play chess for free on the Internet. It features daily banter games in which two GrandMasters or International Masters comment to an audience as they play. It also features predict-a-move games where you guess what the next move of a game played by two GrandMasters was. www.worldchessnetwork.com

Many UWM Chess Club members play here www.freechess.org. The granddaddy of chessservers! This is no mere relic; it has been continually upgraded, and still features strong competition.

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Chess Stores

If you want to purchase any chess books, the USCF store is the first place to look. They have the largest selection in the USA www.shopuschess.org/scstore/

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General Chess Articles and Sites

A superb site. There are about a dozen renowned chesswriters who pen monthly columns for the ChessCafe. Lots of stuff on the History of "The Royal Game" www.chesscafe.com/

This is a link to a page on the USCF website that lists the upcoming tournaments that have been submitted for announcement by local WI organizers. www.uschess.org/tla/wi1.html

A direct link to the ratings page of the USCF. Allows for simple and easy searches to check on your rating, or the ratings of your friends. www.64.com/uscf/ratings/

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