Denis Dancanet's Chess Page

Yes, I have been sucked into the world of chess. I learned to play as a kid and recently took it up again. After I had exhausted the possibilities of my various video games, I took the fateful decision to double-click the chess program icon. I duly lost the game, so I did a bit of studying. Almost a year later, I have a chess library that has acquired a life of its own, a store of specialized chess knowledge guaranteed to be useless against the raw power of the future machines, and I still cannot defeat my computer regularly. But such are obsessions; I march on to Caissa's drumbeat. At least I am not going to exhaust the possibilities of this game.

In the summer of 1995 I participated in my first chess tournament, the Allegheny Chess Congress, run by the Pittsburgh Chess Club. I got lucky and scored 2 wins and 3 losses. You can see the commented games, but take note, I am a patzer (provisional rating 1700).

Here are a few chess links I have collected:

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