At the moment all of the more than 100 chess lessons that were previously located under the ChessteacherLessons.com domain are ported to freechesslessons.blogspot.com, making use of the chesspublishing methods offered by this site.

If you are interested in how other sites make use of this method to publish chess games on a blogspot or other site you can find a lot of examples.

To mention some interesting ones:

• Mate in one exercises
• The elephant trap
• Opposition
• Some very short Scotch games

Another possibility to publish chess games on your blog.
In this post I have used the HTML Code Generator for Blogs from the Chess Web Publishing blog as mentioned in the comments on one of the previous posts.

In order to make this work you also have to plugin the extension in your template as described in "How to publish a chess game on your blog".

I have replaced the interactive chessboard with a picture end of august 2009, because this method prevented me to test other chess publishing methods.


 
Next to move 2...e6 a red A was visible. This indicates that an annotation has been made for this move. The annotation became visible after I selected this move.

If you try to use this chess publishing method and vistit the site by means of Internet Explorer you may experience a problem on the right side (Black's moves are not visible anymore), but this may be solved in the future.

As a kind of follow-up on the previous post Aronian and Carlsen became the co-winners of the Corus tournament. On the Magnus Carlsen Chess site the game of the previous post is described in the following way.

As white, Anand sacked a pawn against Kramnik and the latter avoided repetition of moves only to be allow Anand a ferocious attack against the black king. However, Kramnik defended brilliantly and after Anand missed Rd1 and gave up his bishop instead, his advantage disappeared. With queens off the board, a draw was agreed in the rook + 4 pawns versus rook + bishop + 1 pawn ending, and the winners press conference could begin.

A nice blog about the adventures of the youngest chess grandmaster in the world.

Instead of using ChessPasteBin it is possible to use the LT-PGN-Viewer directly. In this example post I pass the commands via url to http://www.lutanho.net/pgn/ltpgnboard.html.
We are in control of the kind of chess pieces, the background color and the lay-out of the moves, comments and variations.

Update:
But there seems to be a problem with Firefox. See the next post.

Update 2:
The problem has been solved by the programmer of the LT-PGN-VIEWER. See his comments below this post.

There is a new version of Chess publisher. It is still a FREE Chess PGN viewer, but it seems that you now have to register before you can use it.

One of the problems with Chess Publisher was the need to press the ‘Replay Game‘ button first. Now a new version of Chess Publisher has been written in which they have removed the ‘Replay Game’ button to make it more “user friendly”.

Another change is that if the move text is very long it will now ‘wrap under’ the board. In the older version the space under the diagram is just blank.
I think that these improvements are rather important and this is now my new favorite. Even the variations went rather well, but the lay-out of the moves may need some improvement.

Update Januari 2010
Chess Publisher 2 as well as the complete Chesspublisher site isn't available anymore and I haven't made a screendump of this post to show you.

On ChessPasteBin a tool can be found to share chess games. The tool is based on JsPGNViewer, which can also be used if you are able to include the jsPgnViewer.js in your webpage.

The game is the same game as in the previous post, but now the moves are click-able and the comments can be added. However we still are unable to show the variations and some copying and pasting as well as a dependency on another website is involved.

Update september 2009
The game has disappeared so I decided to upload the game again, but to use an image taken from a screen-dump instead of the original iframe.

This game between Howard Staunton and Elijah Williams is very illustrative of the importance of the different kind of oppositions in chess. As you will see Staunton has lost the game, but you have to know that the virtual opposition was something nobody was aware of in 1851. Without these kind of guidelines it is very difficult to play this kind of endgame the right way.

I use this game as an example of the possibilities to publish Chess games on a blog site. This time I have used Chess Publisher.

The main drawbacks are the lack of clickable moves and the fact that It is impossible to add the winning variations. Compare this post with the Staunton - Williams post on Chess Teaching.

[Event "London m6"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1851.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Howard Staunton"]
[Black "Elijah Williams"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Bd3 Bd6 6.O-O O-O 7.Bg5 Bg4 8.c3 c5 9.dxc5 Bxc5 10.Nbd2 Nbd7 11.Qc2 Qc7 12.Bh4 Bd6 13.Bg3 Nc5 14.Nd4 Bxg3 15.fxg3 Nxd3 16.Qxd3 Rfe8 17.Rae1 Bh5 18.Qb5 a6 19.Qa4 b5 20.Rxe8+ Nxe8 21.Nxb5 Qc6 22.Qh4 axb5 23.Qxh5 Nf6 24.Qe5 Qb6+ 25.Kh1 Rxa2 26.Qf5 Qe6 27.Qb1 Ra8 28.Qd3 Qc6 29.Qf5 Qe6 30.Qd3 Qc6 31.Nf3 Qc4 32.Qd1 Re8 33.Nd4 b4 34.Nf5 Re6 35.Qf3 bxc3 36.bxc3 Qe4 37.h3 Qxf3 38.gxf3 Re2 39.Nd4 Rd2 40.g4 g6 41.Ra1 Nd7 42.Ra8+ Kg7 43.Rd8 Ne5 44.Rxd5? Nxf3 45.Nxf3 Rxd5 46.Kg2 Rc5 47.Kg3 Rxc3 48.h4 h5 49.g5 f6 50.Kf4 Rxf3+ 51.Kxf3 fxg5 52.hxg5 Kf7 53.Ke3 Ke6 54.Ke4 Kd6 55.Kd4 Kc6 56.Ke5 Kc5 57.Kf6 h4 58.Kxg6 h3 59.Kf7 h2 60.g6 h1=Q 61.g7 Qd5+ 62.Kf8 Qf5+ 63.Ke8 Qg6+ 64.Kf8 Qf6+ 65.Kg8 Kd6 66.Kh7 Qf7 67.Kh8 Qh5+ 68.Kg8 Ke6 0-1

Chesstempo.com seems to be a rather new site and they are offering a rather nice PGN viewer. However I was unable to use it on this blog site, because you need to upload the PGN-file first. But I liked the way the pieces were moving very much.

On the mentioned website a Chess Tactics page can be found, which seems to use the same PGN viewer to solve tactics puzzles. This is somewhat similar to the more familiar Chess Tactics Server.

Both links may be worth visiting if you want to train some tactics, but the ultimate PGN-viewer has not been found yet.

In my search for ways to publish chess games on a blog I came across Shredderchess.
Shredderchess.com offers a possibility to add daily updated chess puzzles on a chess page.
This results in the following diagram.



I think it looks rather nice, but I prefer to add my own chess puzzles and the internal frame is depending on another site.
The search continues.

Chess Blogs are a very useful source of chess information. Most of these blogs are from chess players that are working actively on chess improvement and are writing about their successes and failures. Some are very serious, while other blogs are very humorous.
One of the most humorous blogs is the one from Chess Loser. It is called hardcore pawnography.
A quote of a part from one of these articles will make this clear.

I'm just like Tal, only I lose
as i study and play, i notice how my style is evolving and changing, and i notice my style is a lot like GM Tal, with his crazy cavalier attitude, his macho bravado laden sacrifices, his almost wreckless, “i don’t give a fuck” attitude. the only difference, really, between him and me is, he knew what he was doing, he calculated and analized and had a plan, and he won the majority of his games, where as i have the wreckless sacrificing down pat, the bravado, but i don’t back any of it up with sound play or a halfway decent plan, i often fail to see the consequences of my moves, and then i lose miserably. but, every once in a while, i catch someone on a bad day, and it works out for me, like in this game here.

This site is not about chess lessons, but about publishing chess games on blog sites. On the Wordpress Chess Teaching site a lot of chess lessons can be found. At the moment there are more than 50 chess tutorials on almost all the stages of the game and for all levels of play on this Chess Teaching site. You can get a quick overview by looking at their chess lessons index page, but you can also start at this introduction post and follow all the chess lessons by means of the next chess lesson link.