Recommended links

Physics

• Axions

  • Wikipedia about axions.
  • CAST Collaboration - homepage of one of the biggest axion search experiment; it contains many information and latest results.
  • CAST home page at CERN - interesting website about the same experiment.
  • ADME (Axion Dark Matter Experiment) - one of the vary first attempts to find axion.
  • PVLAS Collaboration - homepage of the Italian experiment, which recently obtained signal, which by the authors is interpreted as a new particle, however this result is a controversy and definetly disagrees with axion models or CAST's observations.
  • Many articles about this subject (and not only) can be found in the arXiv in HEP (High Energy Physics).

• Astronomy

  • Astronomy picture of the day - every day new beautiful picture of our Universe with specialist's comment.
  • Black holes - Wikipedia about black holes; good starting point to learn a little bit about "the greatest stars of the Universe".

Mathematics

• Wolfram's site catalogue - in my opinion the best source of knowoledge related to maths on the web, also contains information about physics, mathematical graphic and animations and of course Mathematica program.
• From the latter the most impressive is base of functions - modern and very affluent Bronsztejn.

LaTeX

• LaTeX's tips big collection.
• On Ryszard Kostecki's homepage one can find short and simple course, which is great for starting working with LaTeX (in Polish).

Music

• Nigel Kennedy

  • Another string - (un)official Nigel Kennedy's page (articles, dicsography,...).

• Vladimir Wysotsky

  • Wysotsky in many languages - translations of his most famous pieces.
  • Library of Wysotsky's works (not only songs!. Extremely rich, but only in Russian.
  • Work collection - vast majority of Wysotsky's songs in mp3 (in Russian).

• Wadim Egorov

  • About Egorov (in Russian).
  • Lyrics (in Russian).
  • Pieces to listen and download.

Chess

• Information

  • FIDE website (international chess association) containing among others latrst news related to chess and also ratings of federations and players (everyone with international rating).

• Mikhail Tal

  • Biogrphy - artycle with many photos.
  • Tal's games on www.chessgames.com.
  • Chess quotes.

• Databases

  • Master games - enormous collection (many of them with Fritz annotations)!

• Programs

  • Great and very rich website of Danish chess club Norresundby - from here Palview originated, superb program to build WWW pages from PGN files, which I used by the way :).

• Online and offline playing

  • FreeChess.org the best place to play chess on the web I know plus training sections and possibility to give your own game to annotate by stronger player or annotate weaker ones. Strongly recommended!
  • Sachy.sk - Slovak chess server for correspondence playing. Quite good, however still in construction.

Others

• Translit.ru - site helping with writing in Russian - converts latinum alphabet to cyrylic.

by andrzej hryczuk