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22 Oct 2026
GM
ulvi95
How to Find the Right Chess Coach
A practical guide for players and parents: choosing a coach, evaluating a trial lesson, understandin…
22 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Knight on f5 That Marshall Could Never Chase
Capablanca puts a knight on f5 and spends the rest of the game building around it. Marshall cannot k…
22 Oct 2026
FlippyDolphin00
Stop wasting your time: A rant about openings.
Often when I begin working with chess students, they make the same opening mistakes again and again.…
21 Oct 2026
Lichess
Ending the Boycott
Lichess has resumed cooperation with US Chess after positive changes
21 Oct 2026
Mradsomer
Endgame Bootcamp 19
Endgame technique: closing the case
21 Oct 2026
marcusbuffett
Spending 10 months building the most human-like chess bot
Chessbook-1 predicts human moves as well as the best published models, and it also knows how strong …
20 Oct 2026
Mradsomer
Endgame Bootcamp 18
Black wins a King Rook Pawn Ending
20 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
Let the Pawn Structure Pick the Plan
Capablanca beat Marshall eight to one in their 1909 match without studying openings. This game shows…
19 Oct 2026
IM
Alex_lucky
Эндшпиль - твое слабое место, которое не позволяет расти дальше
"Сила мастера - в конце"
19 Oct 2026
TotalNoob69
Chess Pursuit 2 in LiChess Tools
... the rise of Warbear
19 Oct 2026
Lichess
2026 Lichess Meetup in Prague
A weekend of team working, chess, and meeting the public for more chess
18 Oct 2026
FM
itsantiago
10 ideas «feas» en la apertura que tu profesor odiará y Stockfish 19 perdona (I)
Un peón de menos, la dama de vuelta a casa y Stockfish tan tranquilo. Exploramos 5...c5 en la varian…
17 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
Two Questions to Ask When You Are Winning
Most won games are thrown away by trading at random. A pawn up against two opponents in consultation…
16 Oct 2026
ecoarrivazumashoomzo
3 of the wannabe uzbek gms review their games.
Our games last round in the Classical Team Champions League reviewed by the players themselves. (Sat…
16 Oct 2026
FM
Zig_Zag_Zug_Zwang
The Pyramid of Evaluation [Part 1]
There is nothing more important in chess than the ability to evaluate a position. Without it, you ca…
16 Oct 2026
IM
Lizard1
The Time Mikhail Tal Got Destroyed
This is a spectacular attacking masterpiece in which Lev Polugaevsky unleashed 25 moves of home prep…
16 Oct 2026
WFM
szefru
The Most Basic Pawn Endgame Is Harder Than You Think
One Pawn, Two Kings, and a Lot to Think About
16 Oct 2026
FDAIMAN
Problemas en la identificación de patrones
En algunas partidas existen varias posibilidades donde muchas ejercen el factor distractor sobre la …
16 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Pawn the Rook Could Not Leave: Capablanca's Advanced Passed pawn
Capablanca out calculates Fox in the complications. He comes out an exchange up and then rolls a paw…
15 Oct 2026
NM
Serog1sPerog1s
Thanksgiving Open Analysis Day 3 | Positional Debacles
This is Part 3/3 of my Thanksgiving tournament experience, played October 10-12. Each part focuses o…
15 Oct 2026
Mathmochess
47% of hanging pieces lost could have been saved at every rating (52,005 games)
We named 302,391 mistakes in 52,005 amateur games, rated 400 to 2399. The skill that does not improv…
14 Oct 2026
NM
Serog1sPerog1s
Thanksgiving Open Analysis Day 2 | Risk & Reward
This is Part 2/3 of my Thanksgiving tournament experience, played October 10-12. Each part focuses o…
14 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Attack That Should Not Have Worked: Capablanca's Pawn Storm
Capablanca throws his queenside pawns at a castled king and the engine says the attack is not sound.…
13 Oct 2026
IM
justiniano565
Small Variations in 960 starting positions I
Why starting positions that we may confound at a first glance have different evaluations?
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