ECA: Chessexonline

Regretfully, Chessexonline as now been discontinued. Previous downloads are still available. see the Downloads section below.

However, we now produce a periodic Newsletter (pdf only) which you can find via the navigation bar at the left of the page.


12_1 Aug 2009	12_2 Sep 2009	12_3 Sep (2) 2009
White to play (see 12_3 p5)	White to play (see 12_3 p3 )
Envelope Diagrams The diagrams shown below the issue icons above are a reproduction of the diagram adorning the address label received by postal subscribers.The idea is that the diagram is a point of interest, usually not too challenging, that the subscriber can solve, or at least give some thought to, before opening the envelope. The diagram usually relates to a game or game fragment reported in that issue. Website readers will now be able to play along, by considering the diagram before opening the issue indicated. (Note: for the above diagrams, the answer to the first is not in 12_1, but in 12_3, and 12_2 has no diagram as 12_2 and 12_3 are being posted together to subscribers as one sending; i.e. one diagram per sending.)

This paragraph applies ONLY to the 'download' issues 001 to 004. It does NOT apply to Issue 005.
Issues 001 to 004 come in a zip file which you download and install on your local disk. Additional files are included in the zip which make possible active content in the magazine (e.g. playing games through on screen). For Issues 001 to 004 incl, please download and read the ReadMe 1st file (pdf) which gives instructions for the correct method of downloading the Chessexonline files. Read this file before downloading Chessexonline zips 001 to 004. The ReadMe1st file also incorporates the User Guide. Any problems with this, email: Webmaster@essexchess.org.uk

Issue 005 has no 'active content' and simply opens on screen, from where you can print it or save it.


Download 001	Download 002	Download 003	Download 004	Open 005

ChessexBase is the database of all games published in Chessex. This is an ongoing project and games will be added as and when. Games included in v2.0 are all the games so far published in Chessexonline, plus the further games from the archive, now including games from Ivor Smith's CHESSEX up to and including Volume 1 Issue 2.

To make use of this download, you will need a .pgn game viewer. Fritz and ChessBase are fine. If you have neither of these, and don't have an alternative, see the DGT Chess Theatre download in the next section.

.pdf files (Portable Document Format) require a pdf reader such as the Adobe Reader. Click on the icon below to download Adobe Reader. This is free to download, but its a biggy. For Broadband users, this will be no problem, but for those with a standard 56K modem it will take a long time. Pick a time when your phone line will not be in demand or, better still, use a download manager which will enable you to split the download over several sessions. You only have to do the download once and it is worth it.