It’s all just 1’s and 0’s…

Since about two months I have gone back to learning more about chess. I had taken some courses when I was younger, but never really played much. A friend of mine pointed me at chess.ac, a website where you can play chess move by move. Move-by-move means that there is a time limit for the game, but this is in the order of days, so you can really take the time to think about what your next move will be. And this is actually pretty good from a training perspective.

Another neat thing is that you can export the game using the PGN notation, which you can then import into the Fritz engine. Then it can analyse your play and point you at obvious flaws and other alternative moves which you might not have thought about.

Chess.ac also has teams, which can challenge each other. I have a team as well, with a couple of members, but we need more to be able to play team challenges.

All in all, it’s a pretty nice environment to play and learn. If you give it a shot, let me know, and we can play a game or two, or you can come join my team! Send a message to gobo on the chess.ac website.