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Welcome to ChessWeb - the best educational chess resource on the Internet! Here you can learn about chess, increase you understanding of chess, improve your game, test your problem solving skills, and find the right chess book for you. For our visitors ChessWeb offers chess lessons for kids and adults, interviews with grandmasters, tournament reviews, links to other chess resources, and much much more. And if it weren't enough, we are working with Amazon.com to give you one of the biggest chess bookstores on the web!

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Looking for a chess book? Stop by ChessWeb bookstore. We are working with Amazon.com to provide you with the best selection of chess books on the Internet. The books are available for shipment either immediately or within just a few days of order.

If you want to increase your chess skills, visit ChessWeb University - the best educational chess resource on the Internet. It brings you instructions from the most prominent and influential chess players, coaches, and writers from all over the world. Among our instructors is one of the top rated US Grandmasters Gregory Serper and Lithuanian Grandmaster Edward Rosentalis - one of the 40 best chess players in the world. The geography of other contributors currently includes USA, Canada, Russia, Latin America, and Europe. ChessWeb University's articles offer interviews with Grandmasters, articles about chess and chess history, tournament reviews, and other interesting information.

Coming soon is ChessWeb for Kids - a special program designed for children. Entertaining and fun instructions look more like a wonderful book about chess characters from magic ChessLand. ChessWeb for Kids provides on-going instructions that start from the very basics and raise children's understanding of chess to a new level month after month after month.

Up for a little challenge? Try your skills at ChessWeb Puzzles and Studies. Even for the professional chess players, like masters and grandmasters, the art of solving chess studies remains a crucial weapon in their arsenal. What is so special about the studies? Usually, a study (etude) is an artificially created position, where the goal is to win or to draw and the correct solution is hidden behind tricky variations. The number of moves in a study is usually unrestricted. This useful assumption brings studies closer to a real game, where nobody tells you how quickly you can win. Good studies also contain tactical and strategic methods typical for real games.

Finally, ChessWeb Links is a collection of links to chess tournaments, chess clubs, and other chess resources on the web.