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**Chess news**
[|The Week in Chess] - For the latest in results and games from around the world, this is the place to go. IM John Watson's book reviews are also excellent - usually on books for advanced or serious-minded players. [|ChessBase News] - A great site for what is happening in the international chess scene, with many article including games, analysis, photos and videos. [|Chess Chat Forum] - An Australian-based forum site that covers tournament and club news, and discussion of games (and more) in Australia and the Oceania region. New Zealand Chess - The NZ Chess Federation website, with upcoming tournaments, results and useful information for chess players in New Zealand. New Zealand Chess Magazine - the annotated games archive from the NZ chess Magazine, along with a free sample issue to download. [|50 Moves] - A brand new chess e-magazine from Australia, in pdf format with downloadable game files for each issue.

**Places to play chess online**
[|Chessworld.net] - A well-established correspondence chess server (i.e. games are not played real-time) with many coaching videos and other features. Guests are free and membership costs US$28.50 per annum. [|Chesscorner] - A correspondence chess server (i.e. games are not played real-time) with a good range of features that is well moderated & suitable for young players. Guests are free and membership costs US$19.95 per annum. [|Free Internet Chess Server] - Play live games here, with the Java interface provided, against opponents from anywhere in the world. As well as normal chess at any time-limit you can play all the major variants (shuffle, transfer, suicide etc) and have your performance measured by the Glicko rating system. [|The Internet Chess Club] - The original online chess club. The strongest players are to found here and the features include chess radio and relays of all the major competitions with live commentary. Free 7-day trial membership. [|Playchess.com] - is the other main commercial live site that attracts the top grandmasters, as well as caters for players of all strengths. Part of the Chessbase/Fritz stable, access is free to Fritz owners, but membership can be bought and a free interface is available to these players and guests. [|Chess.com] is another very popular site for online play and tutorials with different grades of membership. [|Chess24.com] is a new site for online play and tutorials and frequent live broadcasts of top tournaments with computer analysis. [|lichess.org] is a free open source website with games, analysis, puzzles, databases, videos etc.

**NZ chess clubs**
[|New Zealand Chess] - An up-to-date list of links New Zealand chess clubs and other chess organisations.

**Podcasts**
The Perpetual Chess Podcast - A weekly interview with a top player, coach or other personality - with lots of coaching/training tips and stories

**Training/coaching materials**
[|Chess Tactics Server] - a really interesting free site, where your problem solving ability is tested against the clock and you get a rating based on your performance. [|Chess puzzles by GMs] - Taken from real games, these chess problems are ideal for tactics training. [|Chess Visualisation Training] - A free online resource that serves up simple questions requiring you to visualise the board & pieces to get the answer. [|Chess365 Online games database] - A site that allows you to search over 3.5 million games to improve your openings or research opponents [|Chess Killer Tips] - Alexandra Kosteniuk's training site using either mp4 or Flash videos to explain tactics from grandmaster games [|Chesskids] - Loads of free online material for young beginners plus resources for teachers and parents of budding chess champions [|Chesscorner] - a tutorial for the absolute beginner to chess [|Chessworld.net] - Many free coaching videos by Kingscrusher.