Jos' Chess Page

Welcome to my Chess Page!

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Hi! I'm Jos Heesen and playing with chess pieces and computers are my favourite pastimes. I'll try to combine the two while maintaining these pages.

I play chess over the board at my club De Rode Loper (The Red Bishop) located in Utrecht (NL) and edit/maintain their home-page.

I'm also the editor of schaak.pagina.nl. A famous Dutch 'starting page' with lots of chess related links.

I play snail-mail chess at the Nederlandse Bond voor Correspondentieschakers (NBC). The NBC is a member of the International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF).

I play e-mail chess at the International E-mail Chess Group (IECG).

At this very moment I'm playing in the WSV Open. A friendly email tournament. You can follow the results on the WSV Homepage.

I play on-line chess, as JHW, at the Free Internet Chess Server.

I also play on-line chess, as Redbishop, at Chessed and Game Colony.

I play YOU if you sent your first move by e-mail to: jhw.heesen@hccnet.nl .

Or come to the (dutch) Email schaak pagina.

Chess Masters Webring

A webring is a wonderful idea! Several home pages with a similar subject are linked together in a 'ring' and you can 'walk' this ring using the options in the graphic below.

As you can guess the subject of the Chess Masters Webring is : Chess!

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Chess Depot

Contents

My masterpieces (to be continued...)

Here you find the links to some of my chessgames which I consider to be my masterpieces... So far there are only two, but one of these days...

  1. Isa's Owen
  2. On to the Finals

My columns in De Balans (to be continued...)

Here you find the links to some of my columns I wrote for De Balans, the magazine of my club "De Rode Loper".

Mind that these columns are in Dutch!

  1. Schaken op het Web 01
  2. Schaken op het Web 02
  3. Schaken op het Web 03
  4. Schaken op het Web 04
  5. Schaken op het Web 05
  6. Kaartschaak 01
  7. Kaartschaak 02
  8. Kaartschaak 03
  9. Kaartschaak 04
  10. Kaartschaak 05

My worldchampionship

The International Correspondence Chess Federation ('snailmail') organizes several types of tournaments.

My personal favourite type of ICCF tournament is the ‘Thematic’.

‘Why is that ?’ you might ask.

Well, it has something to do with the desire to get your name in print and thus become known or even immortal (isn’t the same true for publishing these pages on the Web ?).

The idea is that, since you know exactly what opening will be played, you can prepare yourself in depth. During this preparation you have to browse through some age-old theory and might come up with a move that refutes a line given by Lasker or Alekhine. If so, all games you played with that new move would be published in all important Chess periodicals all over the world and your name would finally end up in all novelty of the year lists… Imagine how this would boost your ego!

But one day you have to wake up and face reality : after analysing a dozen games in the Schliemann-Jaenisch database I compiled, I realised that Lasker and Alekhine were right after all…

I played in several thematic tournaments (see my Kaartschaak (3) column (in Dutch!)), but only reached the finals in the Schliemann-Jaenisch thematic tournament. Since players from all over the world started in the preliminaries, the winner of the finals could call himself (or herself) :

Worldchampion Schliemann-Jaenisch

Underneath is the 'thematic position' for the Schliemann-Jaenisch; all games in the tournament started from this position...

(Position after : 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 f5 4.Nc3 fxe4 5.Nxe4 d5 6.Nxe5 dxe4 7.Nxc6...)

Now that I've finished all games in the finals, I would like to share my experiences in this specific line with you, dear reader/surfer:

Do you have any games played with the Schliemann-Jaenisch (from the position in the diagram above)? Or do you have any ideas, suggestions or analysis on this line? Please let me know : jhw.heesen@hccnet.nl

My favourite chess links

Now that I maintain schaak.pagina.nl, a 'starting page' with lots of chess related links, I've put all my favourite chess links on that page.

My other favourite links

  1. Hobby Computer Club
  2. WinDOS/2 user group
  3. SmallZine
  4. PC update/upgrade
  5. HTML 4.0 reference site
  6. Web Programmers/Developers site
  7. Search your Web Site
  8. Java Scripts 1
  9. Java Scripts 2
  10. Java Scripts 3
  11. HTML Goodies
  12. JS Webmees
  13. Web ToolZone
  14. Search terms rankings
  15. Internet speed
  16. Search engine LIVE!
  17. Earn money with your Web page
  18. Email redirection etc.
  19. Free home page/email adress
  20. Free domain names
  21. Free server
  22. Free hosting
  23. Free email index
  24. Free providers index 1
  25. Free providers index 2
  26. Batas Consultants (my employer)
  27. Free Clipart server
  28. Free Web tools
  29. Freeware download - Completely Free Software
  30. Software download I - Freeware 32
  31. Software download II - Jumbo
  32. Software download III - Download
  33. Software download IV - DrDownload
  34. Software download V - TUCOWS
  35. Software download VI - Softseek
  36. Software download VII - Hotfiles
  37. Shareware download I - Shareware
  38. Shareware download II - Shareware junkies
  39. Startpagina dochters
  40. Check Domain names
  41. Domain exchange
  42. CD Rom shop
  43. Supermarket on-line
  44. Everything Free!
  45. Internet News
  46. All dutch headlines
  47. Latest news
  48. Worldnews in your browser
  49. Dutch news in your browser
  50. IQ test
  51. EQ test
  52. Mind Games (online psych)
  53. Memory test
  54. Route planner on-line
  55. Euro Trotter
  56. Standard traveller delight
  57. Extreme traveller delight
  58. Hatchoo!
  59. Computable magazine
  60. Computer Totaal magazine
  61. PCM magazine
  62. Computer Idee magazine
  63. Net Magazine
  64. Courseware downloads
  65. Britannica Encyclopedia
  66. El Cheapo CD's
  67. I Pay SET shops
  68. Mega Top 100
  69. Lyrics

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The credits

I could only create these pages with the help of :

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