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20 Jun 2026
FM
mizant83
When The Engine Makes You Worse At Chess
The advice I'm about to give sounds completely absurd - if you're trying to improve at chess, one of…
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…
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…
21 Apr 2026
likeawizard
How to build a Chess Engine
Celebrating 100k games of Tofiks I want to share how I have been working on my engine.
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
6 Oct 2024
andreagobbez
[New Bot!] Zoe_ChessBot
High Performing - Lichess Bot powered by Stockfish 17 that can vary thinking time and strength level…
4 Feb 2026
RuyLopez1000
Bishop vs Knight: The Eternal Battle
Which piece is better: the knight or the bishop? (A question as old as time itself)
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…
2 Jun 2023
CM
Kingscrusher-YouTube
Revisiting AlphaZero's out of this world chess to reveal "Installation Theory"
Revisiting Game 3 of the original 2017 match - Alphazero's "Immortal Zugzwang" game
2 Mar 2026
Ludovic200
Research article about Lichess and Chess.com
Research article about Lichess and Chess.com
22 Dec 2024
NDpatzer
Science of Chess: Can you tell a human opponent from a machine?
Do chess engines pass the Turing Test?
4 Apr 2024
jk_182
Evaluating Sharpness using LC0's WDL
Can engines tell how sharp a position is?
7 Dec 2025
HollowLeaf
Integrating Maia2 (The Human-Like Chess Engine) into My Chess Application
A beginner-friendly look at human-style AI, neural networks, ONNX models, opening books, and everyth…
1 Jun 2025
CM
ArnieChipmunk
How I Managed to Finally Beat LeelaKnightOdds With Black
My epic journey to overcome the most maddening chess challenge of all: beating the engine with an ex…
21 Apr 2025
lucb3
Converting Chess.com to Lichess Ratings: A New Data-Driven Method
This study introduces a new and practical way to accurately convert ratings between Chess.com and Li…
18 May 2026
Junu1425
The Halloween Gambit - A Creative Non-fiction Piece About Modern Chess Culture
This was an essay that I wrote in my dual-enrollment SUPA Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction class…
22 May 2025
CM
akiba182
The Big Mistake Players Make After a Game: The Engine Trap
Want to Really Improve? Follow This Step-by-Step Game Analysis Method
26 Feb 2024
NM
RyanVelez
Proper Engine Use
Engine Dependency
25 Jun 2024
WFM
fla2021
The Open Center
Unlocking the Secrets of the Open Center:
3 Jun 2026
NDpatzer
Science of Chess: The AI Revolution Hasn't Made Chess Better (yet!)
The best chess engines can crush the best human players, but has their existence helped advance the …
1 Jan 2025
NDpatzer
Chess Engines, Centaur Chess and an idea for a new kind of tournament
Engines have had an enormous impact on chess - can we find ways to incorporate them into OTB play fa…
19 Aug 2023
likeawizard
The highly frustrating side of chess engine development.
While chess programming has been my top hobby and passion over the last two years. At times it comes…
10 Feb 2026
RuyLopez1000
Can LLMs like ChatGPT Understand Chess?
Assessing Large Language Models
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