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

Remember to visit ComicsInTheClassroom.Net for all your all-ages school and school appropriate comics.

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.