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7 May 2024
Tobs40
Why a reachable position can have at most 218 playable moves
I hope that the title is unambiguous enough now and I wholeheartedly apologize to all the people who…
23 Mar 2024
jk_182
Using LC0's WDL to Analyze Games
I always like to look at the analysis graph of a chess game. It gives a nice overview of how the gam…
19 Nov 2023
SayChessClassical
Is Chess Culture Important for Improving at Chess?
Should we really ignore all books written before 2000?
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.
5 Apr 2026
xander333
This is how much ELO you are losing in the opening
Combining stockfish evaluations with Lichess's winning chances allows us to derive an exact amount o…
14 Sept 2021
NM
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…
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?
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!
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?
28 Jun 2026
RuyLopez1000
The Essence of a Player: Your Chess Fingerprint
You ever wanted to know which World Champion you play like?
2 Feb 2026
wdj
Introducing CGA: A Chess Game Analyzer
CGA is a Python-based module for chess study
23 May 2026
RuyLopez1000
Does Stockfish Dream of Electric Knights?
Could Stockfish be Conscious?
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. …
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 Nov 2021
Toadofsky
What is Complexity?
If we all knew, we would all be masters.
30 Sept 2023
NM
Chess-Network
Leela Chess Zero traps Stockfish with BLACK
LCZero nets a rook in 68 moves
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