31 May 2014

Chess960 1-2-3 2012++

Continuing with Chess960 1-2-3 2011, I added posts from this blog for 2012 and 2013Q1 to Chess960 1-2-3. In the next session I should be able to bring the 1-2-3 page completely up-to-date. With nearly 300 posts already cataloged, I have some ideas about where to take the project for the next step.

24 May 2014

Chess960 1-2-3 2011

When I posted last week's Chess960 1-2-3 2010H2, I could have mentioned that this blog had just passed its five year anniversary. Happy Birthday to us! Today I'm even more enthusiastic about chess960 than I was five years ago.

The year 2011 saw 57 posts, a strange number explained by my shifting early in that year from two posts per week to one post, a rhythm that I've maintained since then. All 57 posts are now accounted for on the Chess960 1-2-3 index.

17 May 2014

Chess960 1-2-3 2010H2

Just as summer follows spring, so does 2010H2 follow Chess960 1-2-3 2010H1. All posts on this blog from 2010 are now present and accounted for. See the 'Chess960 1-2-3' tab at the top of this page for the results.

10 May 2014

Chess960 1-2-3 2010H1

A number of factors -- Mother's Day, unexpected visitors, and (especially) multiple technical problems -- conspired against me this weekend and prevented me from doing more than half the time period covered by the previous post: Chess960 1-2-3 2009. Once again, click the tab at the top of this post to see the results.

03 May 2014

Chess960 1-2-3 2009

Continuing with Chess960 1-2-3, I added blog posts through the end of 2009 to the index. To see the results, click the tab at the top of this post.

26 April 2014

Chess960 1-2-3

My previous post -- Static Blog Pages, Chess960 Version -- wasn't just about correcting an interface to Chesscube. It was also about providing a framework for my next project, an 'ebook' (for lack of a better term) covering chess960. I'm tentatively calling it 'Chess960 1-2-3', where '1-2-3' refers to three stages of chess960 progress: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced.

First I developed a list of topics that applies to each of those three stages: Introduction, History, Castling, Theory, and Notes. Then I went through the early chess960 posts on my main blog -- up to the point where this current blog took over -- to see if they fit into the 1-2-3 structure. Finally I created a new page, Chess960 1-2-3, which incorporates all of the above.

A single index page is a long way from an ebook, but it should evolve over time. Because it's a static page, a link will appear at the top of every post on this blog.

05 April 2014

Static Blog Pages, Chess960 Version

After writing the post on my main blog about Static Blog Pages, I had some ideas about how to apply static pages to this chess960 blog. The advantage of static pages is that, like the right sidebar, they appear on every blog page.

First I fixed the tab at the top of this blog which said 'ChessCube Chess (Test)'. It has been there for three years but has never worked properly. I created an external page on my own domain with the same content that was behind the tab. Then I made the tab point to that page and renamed the tab 'ChessCube'. Now it works properly, but lacks additional info the metainfo needed for the search engines.

As for the other ideas to use static pages, they involve creating a structured guide to chess960. All things in time.