In this paper we introduce ChessEdu, a collaborative application that allows several people connected to the Internet to practise and learn chess in a guided setting. The main feature of ChessEdu is the use of representations of chess game histories, analysis and related annotations, which enhance the guidance of the teaching process. ChessEdu game histories play an important role from the didactic point of view, since they allow tutors to review what students have done and to guide their work. Annotations to the histories also allow tutors to include links to simplified positions. In this way, students learn chess by working on simple examples related to their previous wrong decisions in their game. ChessEdu is the first step in the definition of a framework to simplify the development of guided collaborative tutoring applications in a much broader context.
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