Protect Your Pawns - 009

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Merry Christmas - 2008

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Pawn moves - 008

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Pawn Intro - 007

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Scott Tingley

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Capture vs Kill - 006

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Sorry the comics have been late this past week.

My soldier pawn is supposed to be wearing a Sgt. Rock (DC comics) costume. I was such a fan as a kid (still am) - so thanks to Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert.

Scott Tingley

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Piece Placement - 005

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I decided not to re-do this one. I may in a week or so though. I may trace the original just so I can redo the lettering.

Scott Tingley

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Hello From the Whole Gang - 004

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The relaunch is clicking right along. New strip coming Monday.

Scott Tingley

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The Handshake - 003

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This is one of the reasons I am redoing ALL of the early strips. I completly glossed over the information now in this strip.

The trash talking thing is important. It will get you kicked out of tournaments and nobody will want to play with you. Feel good about a win, but keep it contained while sitting with your opponent.

See you on Monday.

Please go HERE to start at the begining. Only a few up so far, but MANY more to come.

Scott Tingley

Chess Comic © Scott Tingley 2008

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Mugs! ... Sort of.

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The Chess Comic Mug!

These are not available, but I was bored and I had a brand new Sharpie - the result was the very first Chess Comic merchandise. Someday it may/will be real - What do you think?

The marker washed off, but the memories remain :)

Seriously though, the work I am doing on the strips is taking longer than I thought. Mostly because I am re-doing a lot of the strips you have already read. I didn't think it was going to be necessary, but I think the comic is going to need a re-launch! I am really pleased with how it is going.

Sorry for the delays. Enjoy the mug :)

Scott T

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Happy Halloween!

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Costume ideas came to me and I just couldn't resist. So, back to more learning and less beatings next week.

See you next week.Scott T.Chess Comic © Scott Tingley 2008

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Chess Intro Part 2 - 002

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November 20, 2008

I hope you are sticking with us through our relaunch! I am pretty excited about it. I see the gaps I had in my teaching, which I blame on trying to cram too much into one four-panel strip. I hope you like the changes.

On of the other big changes is in the text. The strips should be a lot easier to read now.

Let me know what you think.

Scott Tingley

chesscomic@gmail.com

See you this Monday.

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Welcome to The Chess Comic - 001

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November 20, 2008

Big changes today! Sorry that the couple of comments have been deleted, but I have spent the last few weeks completely redoing all of the chess comics and the Chess Comic is restarting. First, I began by trying to fix a couple of speech bubbles to make them easier to read. Then I decided I would redo a strip to make it into two in order to make the chess information clearer. Finally I realized that I would need to completely redo every strip up to the first Rook strip.

Since I am brand new at all this I have a pretty steep learning curve, and I am glad I saw some big flaws before I went much further.

Sorry for any inconvenience, but if you are actually reading this strip to learn how to play chess I think you will be better served by the new comics.

For the next few weeks I plan on uploading TWICE a week (Monday and Thursday) - at least until I catch up to the ROOK strips.

See you on MONDAY.

Scott Tingley

Chess Comic © Scott Tingley 2008

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Intro to The Chess Comic

Welcome to The Chess Comic: Learning Chess Through Comics. My goal with the comic is to take the information I have taught in the beginner and intermediate chess camps I have taught in the past and pass that on to my readers using the comic medium.

In my experience, kids and adults new to chess often forget the little things that make up the fundamentals of the game, and I thought having a visual cue for these things might come in handy. The goal is to go through the beginner basics (piece moves, piece values, etc.) and move on to the intermediate skills (openings, endgames, tactics, puzzles etc).

Maybe you are a young person interested in learning so you can play chess with your classmates. Maybe you are older and always wanted to learn, but could never get past how the pieces move. Maybe you are a teacher and want to be able to start a chess club. Or…Maybe you are tired of your ten year old beating you all the time.

The plan is to publish a new strip every week. This is really a temporary home for the comic and I hope to more to more appropriate digs, to a real web-comic site soon.

The more you know about chess, the more fun it gets. Have more fun.

November 20, 2008

To better serve my readers who are actually reading my comics to learn chess I have deleted all of the previous comics and will be posting new versions of the strips TWICE a week (Monday and Thursday) for the next month or two.Sorry for any inconvenience.

Scott Tingley

Chess Comic creator, writer, artist

BTW, I also have a site called ComicsInTheClassroom.Net for all your all-ages school and school appropriate comics.