DDG Texts

DDG Texts

Here are various texts on the DDG. Many of them were inspired by ideas from the readers of these pages.

Annotated games:

Articles published in magazines
Zone 1996, my best games with short comments
Best 1997, selected games with analysis

Ideas and motives are not always explained in analysis, so the following texts try to give more light to reasons behind the DDG:

Non-serious chess analysis, why analyse the DDG and play unsound gambits
Ideas behind the DDG
Pawns & pieces, the purpose of each pawn and piece in a typical DDG game
Rare moves in the DDG
Little page of the DDG busts, how IM John Watson "busted" the DDG
Comments, what players in the Internet think of the DDG

DDG pages in general:

FAQ, answers to frequently asked questions on the DDG and these pages
Short history, how I found the DDG in 1985, and started these pages in 1994
History of 1996, what happened in the DDG world in the busy year of 1996

Other texts:

Brause, a crafty chess program that plays the DDG at chess servers almost daily
Titles for the DDG book, a list of titles for the DDG book if someone wrote one some day

Jyrki Heikkinen