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12 Dec 2022
FM
CheckRaiseMate
The Engine Is An Oracle
Using the engine effectively isn't easy, but it's well worth learning
29 Apr 2025
nvasquez
Learning from Jacob Aagaard
GM Aagaard was on several podcasts over the last few years, I listened to all of them.
14 Sept 2021
FischyVishy
Understanding Chess Engines' Evaluations
This article will help the reader understand how to correctly interpret chess engine evaluations.
5 Oct 2024
NM
Chess-Network
Leela's Wing Gambit checkmates Grandmaster without a knight
Who needs a queen knight?
6 Jul 2025
Everdell
How Do Chess Engines Really Work?
Have you ever wondered what was the logic at work in a chess computer program? If that's the case, t…
6 Mar 2024
NM
Schadenfreude__gut
Improve your blitz results in eight steps
Have you ever wondered if there are some easy ways to make you faster and more dangerous at blitz? H…
30 May 2024
jk_182
Using Stockfish to identify ideal squares
How can an engine be used to answer positional questions?
13 May 2024
yimingz3
Play against @AllieTheChessBot, yet another human-like chess bot
Allie is a human-like chess bot that learns to move, think and resign like humans.
30 Jul 2025
NM
HarpSeal
Why Leela Plays Bad Moves (That Work)
Why does Leela play like a weirdo in odds games when she's down a lot of material?
7 May 2024
NDpatzer
Science of Chess (kinda?): Viih_Sou's 2. Ra3 and a modest research proposal
Take the 2. Ra3 Challenge! For Science!
9 Jun 2025
ChessMonitor_Stats
Engine-Powered Opening Explorer
Opening explorers show what’s popular. Engine shows what’s best. What if we combine both?
7 Oct 2024
jk_182
Finding Threats and Piece Manoeuvres with Engines
How helpful are the mainlines of Stockfish to explain the ideas behind moves?
18 Dec 2022
FM
CheckRaiseMate
My New AI Chess Coach
ChatGPT can plausibly answer nearly any question. Can it annotate a chess game?
2 Feb 2026
wdj
Introducing CGA: A Chess Game Analyzer
CGA is a Python-based module for chess study
19 Apr 2024
jk_182
Calculating the Sharpness of Different Players
How well does the sharpness score agree with the human intuition about sharpness?
30 Sept 2023
NM
Chess-Network
Leela Chess Zero traps Stockfish with BLACK
LCZero nets a rook in 68 moves
30 Nov 2021
Toadofsky
What is Complexity?
If we all knew, we would all be masters.
30 Nov 2023
jk_182
Identifying Brilliant Moves With Leela Chess Zero
One of the most captivating things about chess are brilliant moves, moves that are unexpected, beaut…
17 Feb 2026
DaBassie
What if chess would be solved?
I did some thinking in my spare time and I’m glad to announce that I’m very close to solving chess. …
12 Jul 2024
jk_182
Using Stockfish to automatically find Tactics Puzzles
Can an engine find a tactical puzzle by itself?
30 Apr 2024
NM
MrPushwood
When Computers Sucked
It may well seem a strange thing to recall (in these days of the Silicon Swami), but there was a tim…
6 Oct 2024
andreagobbez
[New Bot!] Zoe_ChessBot
High Performing - Lichess Bot powered by Stockfish 17 that can vary thinking time and strength level…
10 Sept 2025
IM
theScot
I, Robot? When to Play Like an Engine
A post about the balance between objectivity and subjectivity in classical chess
11 Aug 2024
FM
ChessisEternal
Handling the Initiative - Learn from MVL and AlphaZero
In chess, mastering the initiative is key to controlling the game. It’s the ability to create threat…
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