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My Favorite Way to Combat the King's Gambit

The King's Gambit can look intimidating to accept, but Black doesn't have to play passively, and so …TheCommandalorian

Road to NM: Week 4 — Building a Bridge to 1600 Quick Rated

Welcome back to week 4 on the Road to NM series!RuyLopez1000

The 1948 World Championship

The Match Tournament.MagiciansGambit

B35 Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon

Etude ( il faut calculer assez loin )CM jeigoth5

Practical Play vs Computer Play

The best engine move is not always the best practical decision. In this game, time pressure and the …TrophyTheCaptain7777

How I won my first ever OTB tournament

Dominating the U1000 SectionFM amazingatlas

Two Plans and a King: How Capablanca's King Won the Endgame

Capablanca marched his king into the centre the moment the queens came off, ran both endgame plans a…Lichess

Lichess Game of the Month: June '26

A queen sacrifice — with check!Judit Polgar plays against Boris Spassky in a Budapest Match in 1993. This was one of the first games featuring a Fischer digital chess clock.DimBro

The Cons of Blitz Chess - A More Critical Examination

Most people who play chess - online or over the board - play a lot of blitz chess. Sure, it's extrem…FM amazingatlas

When the Knight Beats the Bishop: Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927

The mirror of the last game. Alekhine holds the long bishop, but with the pawns all on one wing, an …TotalNoob69

The xQc variation in the Van't Kruijs

... seems amateurish, but it is validOesterreichSchach

Von 2000 zum FM in 6 Monaten

Der 13-jährige Leo Radnaev hat einen großartigen Leistungssprung hinter sich und beim Czech Open ers…OesterreichSchach

Peter Balint GM-würdig bei Jugend-Team-EM

Peter Balint erzielte bei der U18-Team-EM in Pardubice am ersten Brett die meisten Punkte und eine P…FM amazingatlas

The Weak King Decides: How Capablanca Zugzwanged Nimzowitsch

Capablanca beat the great theoretician of prophylaxis and zugzwang with his own weapon, aiming every…ZugzwangedAgain

Take me, please, take me!

A sweet study for a beginnerFM realcyberbird

Fun stats about the Lichess 2026 Summer Marathon

Stats like: Who played the most games, who reached the top 100 with the lowest number of gamesMike-Shea

Sometimes you just get lucky

There are times when you find yourself in a terrible position, trying to do anything you can to surv…FM amazingatlas

The Bishop Outruns the Knight: Capablanca vs Vidmar, 1927

With the material dead level, Capablanca kept the bishop pair, traded into a pure bishop against kni…TotalNoob69

Delaying d6 in the Indian Defense

... valid lines, very unintuitiveCM goldenstatewarrior

GM Giant Killing

A look at 4 recent shock wins over GM's in over the board competitions.. What can we learn?A black knight on a chessboard with a Fibonacci spiral superimposed over it.NDpatzer

Science of Chess: Looking for Beauty on the Chessboard

Chess isn't just about rating points, accuracy, and centipawn loss, but how do we assess more subjec…kringleman5566

My Worst Defeat and Victory in a While

I analysis two games where I performed suboptimally, fixing my mistakes.IM Khagan Ahmad - World Youth Under-16 Chess Champion 2026FM jeffforever

Interview with IM Khagan Ahmad - World Youth Under-16 Chess Champion 2026

Get to know the two-time European Champion and now also U16 World Championchess.comRoeselare

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