British Chess Problem Society Links

Links to Other Chess Problem and Related Web Sites

Notes:
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Quick links to sections on this page: Organisations and Groups — Individual Problemists — Reference — Books and E-books — Chess Variants — Chess and Computing — Miscellaneous — Back to BCPS home page

ñ ORGANISATIONS AND GROUPS
ð - Danish Chess Problem Society
ð - British Chess Problem Society - this site!
ð - Die Schwalbe - Deutsche Vereinigung für Problemschach (German Society for Problem-chess)
ð - StrateGems - U.S. Chess Problem Magazine
ð - Retrograde Analysis Mailing List
ð - Suomen Tehtäväniekat (Finnish Chess Problem Society)
ð - Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC)
ð - Chessproblem.net
ð - Mat Plus (which includes a lively forum)

ñ INDIVIDUAL PROBLEMISTS
Note that many individuals have wide-ranging interests, so their home pages may not immediately evidence chess problems.
ð - Christian Poisson - Problemesis on-line magazine
ð - Lubomir Siran - On Solving Chess Problems - Ø
ð - Mike Donnelly - postal player and problem composer
ð - Angela and Otto Janko - Retroanalyse im Problemschach
ð - Philippe Schnoebelen, Joost de Heer and Otto Janko - The Retrograde Analysis Corner
ð - Juraj Lorinc - Chess Composition Microweb - Ø
ð - Milan Velimirovic - Mat Plus (old site)
ð - Vaclav Kotesovec
ð - Hilmar Klaus
ð - Udo Marks
ð - Ian Gent
ð - Manolis Stratakis
ð - Andrew Buchanan - Dead Reckoning Retros using FIDE Law A1.3 - Ø
ð - Vito Rallo - Ø
ð - Jonathan Levitt - British Chess Grandmaster - problems and endgames
ð - Torsten Linss
ð - Ivan Jarolin - problems published in Pravda etc
ð - Mario Velucchi - chess and mathematics
ð - Tim Krabbé - includes a lot of material on problems and studies
ð - Paz Einat
ð - Thorsten Zirkwitz
ð - Jaroslav Stun

ñ REFERENCE
Here we list Dictionaries, Bibliographies, Libraries and Problem Collections. A number of the links in other sections also include glossaries, bibliographies and problem collections or selections.
ð - Problemiste Collections - over 100,000 problems
ð - Harald E Ballo - Chess Bibliography
ð - Cleveland Public Library Ohio - John G. White chess collection
ð - Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library - at The Hague, Netherlands) - click on: Collections / Special collections / Sports and games / Chess and draughts collection - to reach the Bibliotheca Van der Linde - Niemeijeriana.
ð - Chess Books - German text
ð - Massmann Collection - Schleswig Holstein Library
ð - PDB - Problem Data Base of helpmates and retros
ð - 132 Studies and Problems by J.T. Sanderse (1921-1989) - also problems of Sam Loyd and M. Liburkin

ñ BOOKS AND E-BOOKS
An increasing number of works on chess problems are being made available in downloadable electronic form. These books are either out of copyright or have been approved for presentation in this form by their authors. Eventually it seems certain that most past literature on chess problems will become accessible in this form. Some of this material is in PDF format for which you need to install Adobe Acrobat. Also some files are compressed and need to be "unzipped" after downloading. For this you need to have WinZip. We also include here sites that promote works in the form of Bio-Optical Organised Knowledge Systems (BOOKS)!
ð - Gil Cleber - O Mosqueteiro do Rei, about work of Felix Sonnenfeld - PDF format - Ø
ð - Lothar Speckmann - Werner Speckmanns elektronische Schachbücher - PDF format
ð - Editions de l'Apprenti Sorcier - PDF
ð - Anders Thulin - Chess Composition Books - PDF and ZIP
ð - Dr Pavel Kamenik - Echo im Hilfsmatt by J. Niemann - PDF format
ð - Hilmar Ebert - Four Men Only publications
ð - Udo Degener - with links to Albrecht collection and Troll magazine - PDF format

ñ CHESS VARIANTS
ð - British Chess Variants Society
ð - Hans Bodlaender and David Howe - Chess Variants

ñ CHESS AND COMPUTING
This section concerns computing software and knowhow of assistance to problemists. Fonts for printing chess diagrams, Macros for converting Forsyth notation to font form, Solving programs, etc.
ð - Popeye Fairy Chess Solver - versions for download
ð - EGChessPro - an interface for Popeye, Chess and Crafty.
ð - Loiodice - links on chess software
ð - Sjeng - chess and variants playing program
ð - WinChloe software for fairy chess problems
ð - Chess Macros and Fonts
ð - Eric Bentzen - nearly 40 Chess Fonts
ð - Explorer - program for solving chess problems - Ø
ð - Alpine chess fonts - Linares font, etc (designed by the late Steve Smith)
ð - Corby Chess Club - Chess Diagram Creator for Lotus WordPro
ð - Alybadix problem solving program

ñ MISCELLANEOUS (sites mentioned may not feature chess problem content)
ð - English Chess Federation - to which BCPS is affiliated
ð - British Federation for Correspondence Chess
ð - Problemists are invited to contribute to this survey on economy in checkmating positions by Azlan Iqbal from Tenaga Nasional University, Malaysia, who is doing research into game intelligence.