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How Capablanca Survived a Lost Game: The Queen and Knight Endgame

Capablanca Best Chess Endings Series, FM Nicholas Van Der Nat, ChessExcellence.How Queen's Dieheroku

How Queens Die: Analysing a 6 Million Puzzle Database

A Data Mining Adventure into the world of Lichess Puzzle DatabaseProphylaxisGM Puli1234

Prophylactic Thinking

One of the most important aspects of positional chess is not just finding your own plans, but unders…The things I do to please AI haters...TotalNoob69

Correspondence games. Why was I so afraid of them?

... the good, the bad, the weirdFM BuendiaChess

DRAGON CHILLING WORLD CHAMPIONS!!!!!! Blitz Full Analysis

Double Gold medal for the Chinese team with the return to the elite of Ding Liren being the highligh…FM BuendiaChess

The Comeback Nobody Expected

After become world champion 4 years ago Ding Liren started to play very bad in all the tournaments l…screenshot database venster Fritz21Roeselare

Fritz 21 deel 3: problemen met de GUI

Na een eerste algemeen artikel en een tweede over de engine, volgt nu een derde, met aandacht voor d…FM BuendiaChess

MAGNUS IN CRISIS?!

Magnus Carlsen loses 4 games in a row in the world rapid team championship!! In this post i analyze …lucaistschlecht

Lessons Learned - Part 2

Lessons Learned is my series to force myself to reflect on my mistakes. I expose the blunders from m…FM amazingatlas

The Pawn Breakthrough: How Capablanca Won This Endgame Blindfolded

Capablanca Best Chess Endings Series, FM Nicholas Van Der Nat, ChessExcellence.gh0strpm

Analyzing Random Player's Games - Week #3

10 Games of Random People Every Week!ZugzwangedAgain

The problem that defeated Tal and Spassky

Can you find a way to promote?A set of scales with the blunder symbol and the brilliancy symbol in each pan - brilliant is slightly higherNDpatzer

Science of Chess: Let your Brilliance be your guide

Improvers are often told to focus on learning from failure, but studying success might be more usefu…WGM jovanaeric

Confidential Chess Files: King

Your non-typical chess blogger is back. It's time to share the final confessions and close the case …FM amazingatlas

The Two Weaknesses: How Capablanca Wins an Equal Rook Endgame

Capablanca Best Chess Endings Series, FM Nicholas Van Der Nat, ChessExcellence.WFM Bullet_House

When to Castle, When to Wait, and When Not to Castle at All

Castle early to keep your king safe... right? Usually, yes...but not always. What if the safest move…DylanYuIM

Tournament Game Review: Missed Mating Net, Hard Fought Draw

I returned to FIDE chess with the Marshall June 2026 FIDE U2400 tournament.crashbandicoot345

Road to 1900 #3 - Tournament Prep

Welcome back to the road to 1900, here I will detail some of my tournament prep for my upcoming quad.FM amazingatlas

The Outside Majority: Capablanca's Most Accurate Endgame

Capablanca Best Chess Endings Series, FM Nicholas Van Der Nat, ChessExcellence.lucaistschlecht

Lessons Learned - Part 1

Lessons Learned is my new series to force myself to reflect on my mistakes. I expose the blunders fr…Accuracies calculated using different methodsjk_182

Comparing Different Ways to Calculate Accuracy

Looking at the Lichess accuracy and my own accuracy functionjdannan

Ilkley Open 2026

Decided to step up to the Open section rather than play in my usual U1900. How did it go? Read on to…ChessRiddleChess_Tigers

Schachtraining neu gedacht - ChessRiddle

In einer neuen Sonderausgabe des Schachtalk ist Felix Beck zu Gast bei Michael Busse. Der Gymnasiall…crashbandicoot345

Road to 1900 #2 - Some insights into my Game Analysis

In this post, I will detail my own process for analyzing my classical games played on Lichess.