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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?
13 Oct 2026
NM
Serog1sPerog1s
Thanksgiving Open Analysis Day 1 | New Openings Against Kids
This is Part 1/3 of my Thanksgiving tournament experience, played October 10-12. Each part focuses o…
13 Oct 2026
IM
datajunkie
What most improvers are missing (a new GM explains)
Interview Part 2/2: how Rishi Sardana got from 1800 to IM, and advice for improvers
13 Oct 2026
NM
suhaasn
Three Games That Got Me to NM
A rematch, a draw with a GM, and my first win over an FM. Three games from the climb back up, with t…
13 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
Count Tempi, Not Material: Capablanca Mates Two Pieces Down
Kings castled on opposite wings turn a game into a race. Raubitschek went material hunting with his …
12 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
Hunt the Uncastled King: Capablanca at Twelve Years Old
The champion of Cuba chose a gambit to punish a boy with no opening theory. Instead he lost the righ…
12 Oct 2026
d4Nc3Bf4
ROAD TO FM - Week 4: The sacrifice that repeated!
This week, I’ll be sharing a very beautiful combination that occured in a recent game.
11 Oct 2026
TotalNoob69
Brilliant move detection in LiChess Tools
... full description
10 Oct 2026
Kampfschach_Official
The Man Who Beat the Champion at 23: Charousek’s Games, Remastered
Converting a 1919 book into playable Lichess studies
10 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
Rook Versus Two Pieces: How Carlsen Rescued a Lost Endgame
Anand sacrificed the exchange and had Carlsen lost on the board and down to his last seconds. Carlse…
10 Oct 2026
RuyLopez1000
The Secret History of Chess Engines
"It doesn’t mean Kasparov isn’t a deep thinker, just that you can bypass deep thinking in playing ch…
9 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Long-Range Pair: How Capablanca Won a Pawn Down
Capablanca dropped a pawn on purpose. To let a long range bishop and rooks on the seventh outclass a…
7 Oct 2026
d4Nc3Bf4
ROAD To FM 2300- Week 3: Lessons from Tournament play!
This week was about putting my training to test over the board!
5 Oct 2026
CkickyCheck
Provoking the Richter-Veresov
Inviting Jobava London's cousin to a fight.
5 Oct 2026
RootedChess
Steinitz's Principles: Harmony and Coordination
"Chess is a game of imagination " - David Bronstein
5 Oct 2026
Lichess
Lichess Game of the Month: August '26
The long diagonal paves the way to White's king
4 Oct 2026
The_Knightmare_Bro
The Power of Opposite Colored Bishops
Hort vs Fischer, 1970.
4 Oct 2026
ElementalMaster1
Converting a Static Advantage
My attempt at covering how one is supposed to convert a static advantage
3 Oct 2026
TitusPlaysChess123
Surpassing 1900 Elo on Rapid!
This is a blog documenting my journey to 1900 Elo on Rapid. We'll look at my highs and my lows in th…
1 Oct 2026
NM
Serog1sPerog1s
2026 Chess Olympiad Samarkand - Round 11 | Canada - Ireland, Canada - Singapore
I'm analyzing & posting two games from each round of the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekista…
1 Oct 2026
TheCommandalorian
Road to NM -- Week 11: Playing a Viewer OTB?!?!
Welcome back to week 11 on the Road to NM series where I account my progress on the road towards the…
30 Sept 2026
NM
Serog1sPerog1s
2026 Chess Olympiad Samarkand - Round 10 | Canada - Venezuela, Canada - Turkiye
I'm analyzing & posting two games from each round of the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekista…
30 Sept 2026
NM
Serog1sPerog1s
2026 Chess Olympiad Samarkand - Round 9 | Canada - Turkmenistan, Canada - USA
I'm analyzing & posting two games from each round of the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekista…
30 Sept 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Power of the Longest Diagonal: A Bishop That Attacks and Defends
A fianchettoed bishop doing two jobs at once. Protecting its own king and raking the length of the b…
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