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ericc ericc
 
February 18, 2009 09:04 PM

Are there good programs/games to practice playing chess for beginners? I hate embarrassing losses in person ;(

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kalane kalane
 
 February 18, 2009 09:39 PM
The site looks pretty old, but Princeton's site "Chess is Fun" (see link below) offers some great information about the game, strategy and links to an online Java-based chess game. There is also an extensive list of links (although some are dead, there's still a good list) to chess information on the web.
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http://www.princeton.edu/~jedwards/cif/intro.html



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ericc ericc
 
February 18, 2009 10:21 PM
Neat, that Java applet is just the kind of thing I was hoping to find out about. Thanks kalane!

And for anyone else out there, please keep bringing them on!

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philipy philipy
 
February 18, 2009 11:55 PM
You might want to try out:

http://zone.msn.com/en/chess/

I think you'll find a beginners area there, where you can play and chat. It's a long time since I looked there myself, so I'm not sure if I remember rightly.

There are a lot of online chess sites, but they are not really for beginners. I'd avoid them until you're a little bit better. Two of the biggest and best of those are:

http://www.chessclub.com/
http://playchess.com/

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bernices bernices
 
February 19, 2009 03:40 AM
I'm a Pogo girl myself. This is one of the many games that are free to play there!

http://board-games.pogo.com/games/chess?pageSection=free_home_board

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