To use this applet, simply make a selection from the list shown
below. A new window displaying a chess board should appear. Use the provided
buttons to play or re-play each move.
The games shown below are from the 1997 USA Championship. Congratulations go to Esther Epstein, winner of the Women's Championship, and to Joel Benjamin, winner of the overall championship. For full coverage and annotated games, go to
www.smartchess.com or www.uschess.org.
The ChessTutor applet shown above is setup to display one of several available PGN databases. These databases are actually stored using the PGZ format, which is a compressed PGN format, providing faster download times and smaller disk storage requirements on the Web server. Users may select one of the available entries from the 'PGN URL' list, thereby instructing the software to load or re-load that particular database.
Some of the available databases are: