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30 May 2024
jk_182
Using Stockfish to identify ideal squares
How can an engine be used to answer positional questions?
28 May 2025
CkickyCheck
I Will Never Again Play a Move as Beautiful as This
A real game position, that could be a puzzle instead
27 Nov 2024
Lichess
WCC 2024 Round 3: Gukesh Bounces Back After Trapping a Bishop
GM Gukesh D won a piece and converted his position against GM Ding Liren to tie up the match heading…
6 Jul 2025
IM
PseudoBenko
Vintage Theory
Exploring Ancient Openings
3 Apr 2024
Lichess
FIDE Candidates 2024: Preview and Predictions
Sixteen players, two potential world champions
8 Nov 2023
ambrona
Vampires in Chess II - The Chase
Join me in the chase of vampires. There are more of them than we could imagine!
5 May 2025
NEXTOR001
When Do Chess Players Make the Most Mistakes?
We analyzed over 100 million games from Lichess over the past month to see how often players make in…
16 Jul 2026
CkickyCheck
The Most Aggressive Opening for Black
A guide and introduction to the Perfect Scandinavian!
28 Aug 2024
BlindfoldBlunderer
Digitize OTB Games with ChessCam
An update on ChessCam, the free app to digitize your chess games
21 Mar 2024
TheOnoZone
Losing Consciousness
It was game over.
27 Sept 2024
OnTheQueenside
Nine Biggest Stars of the Women's Olympiad!
India! India! India!
12 Aug 2024
SyltStonks
Stop inventing, start copying !
Stop wasting your time inventing bad plans during your games and start learning from the masters !
9 Sept 2024
Lichess
2024 Budapest Olympiad: Preview
The 2024 Budapest Olympiad has all the makings of a very memorable chess spectacle.
31 Dec 2023
CM
Kingscrusher-YouTube
12-Hour Lichess Winter Chess Marathon: Insights, Strategies, and a Touch of Grit
Very interesting chess battles. Some hints and tips for doing well in the marathon
9 May 2025
jk_182
Finding Traps with Stockfish
Can an engine figure out if there is a trap in a position?
23 Oct 2023
IM
mmsanchezchess
Level Up Your Endgames Part 3: 2 Rook Endgame Ideas You Have to Know
In my first section I talked about how the strength of passed pawns depends significantly on what fi…
28 Feb 2025
CkickyCheck
My Most Ellegant Brilliant Move
A very rare home rank brilliant move.
19 Jan 2025
NM
Chess-Network
Gukesh D vs Anish Giri | Tata Steel Chess 2025
Dark square problems
3 Apr 2022
njswift
The Candidates Tournament
Personal reflections, premature excitement, and the Karjakin question
7 Jun 2025
NM
visualdennis
Announcing the Crazyhouse World Championship 2025
An Overview of Tournament Format, Schedule and Prizes
30 May 2026
Bosburp
My First Chess Composition
I’ve always been interested in chess composition, so recently I decided to challenge myself by creat…
28 Nov 2023
oortcloud_o
Linking top players based on openings
Using relatedness network on opening choices of top grandmasters
3 Mar 2025
FM
CheckRaiseMate
What Good Opening Prep Really Looks Like
There are no prizes for memorizing random moves
22 Apr 2024
NM
Chess-Network
17-year-old Gukesh D makes chess history
Youngest challenger ever for a world chess championship title
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