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The Most Annoying Tournament

Prepare for a little bit of complainingFM amazingatlas

One Bishop, Two Passers: How Capablanca Won an Opposite-Coloured Bishop Ending

Opposite-coloured-bishop endings are famously drawn. Capablanca steered into one on purpose and won …DIAChessClubStudies

The Think Aloud Method

The Most Important Chess Improver's and Coach's ToolFM amazingatlas

Create It, Then Use It: Capablanca's Passed Pawn Masterclass

A pawn majority is a passed pawn waiting to be born. Capablanca turned a modest queenside majority i…baskervile

You Won. That Doesn’t Mean You Played Well.

Winning doesn’t always mean you played well. Sometimes the most valuable lesson is hidden in the mis…FM amazingatlas

King Safety Is Paramount: How Capablanca Won a Queen Ending With One Quiet Move

The first pure queen ending of the series. Material was level and Capablanca's pawns were worse, but…Fire-work

[PART 2] I made program to find craziest sacrifices in a row.

"Should I even mention that we are sacrificing a rook, a knight and a queen?"IM Lizard1

Magnus Pushes the H-Pawn And Destroys a GM

Magnus spends the opening pushing his h-pawn instead of developing his pieces, and somehow that same…ElementalMaster1

The Art of the Exchange Sacrifice

A crazy game during a recent tournament of mineA funny dog wearing glasses at the laptoppaunchypawn

So why analyse your own games?

But I thought we all wanted to improve?FM amazingatlas

The Transformation Doctrine: How Capablanca Won Without Capturing the Weakness

Capablanca attacked Rubinstein's isolated pawn all game, then gave up that attack on purpose to seiz…Fischer vs Spassky on Board 1 in the Havana Olympiad, 1966danthedestroyer317

Fischer vs Spassky I: Before the Match

Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky played each other five times before their 1972 World Championship ma…CM jeigoth5

The Fastest Way to Improve in Chess

What's the fastest way to improve in chess? Most players think the answer is studying more. I disagr…FM amazingatlas

The Endgame Capablanca Had to Win Twice: Steiner vs Capablanca, 1928

Capablanca reached a won ending, let the cleanest win slip with a natural move, and then had to win …IM Lizard1

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 …RuyLopez1000

The 1948 World Championship

The Match Tournament.FM 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 validFM amazingatlas

The Weak King Decides: How Capablanca Zugzwanged Nimzowitsch

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