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18 Sept 2023
GM
NoelStuder
Mastering Chess Opening Strategy: A Grandmaster Guide
Before you learn the exact move-by-move chess opening theory, you should learn the Chess Opening Str…
25 Mar 2022
njswift
Fearing Dvoretsky
What is an endgame manual and who should use it?
10 Aug 2023
GM
NoelStuder
What I Learned From GM Iossif Dorfman
Good Coaches help you improve. Great Coaches change the way you think about Chess. I was lucky enoug…
6 Feb 2025
GM
NoelStuder
From Bullied Kid To Grandmaster - How Chess Saved My Life
This article is a special one, and one that I thought about never publishing.
26 Jun 2026
FM
BuendiaChess
MAGNUS IN CRISIS?!
Magnus Carlsen loses 4 games in a row in the world rapid team championship!! In this post i analyze …
5 May 2026
TotalNoob69
Calculation Trainer
... a new feature in LiChess Tools
30 Sept 2023
NM
Chess-Network
Leela Chess Zero traps Stockfish with BLACK
LCZero nets a rook in 68 moves
6 May 2026
IM
HelloItsDmitri
The Stories of Openings - The Catalan
In this post we will learn the story of the Catalan Opening, not in a historical sense, but rather t…
10 Oct 2025
DeeTheta
The Gukesh Nimzo: d4's Strategic Analogy to the Najdorf
Gukesh, top GMs, and engines have stumbled upon a new way to play when white denies the Nimzo. It's …
8 Feb 2025
TotalNoob69
Shatter the Philidor Defense with the Zombie King gambit
a devastating weapon against a supposedly solid opening
24 Dec 2023
OnTheQueenside
2023 Online Women's Chess: Year-in-Review
Vaishali, Polina Shuvalova, and Hou Yifan showed up!
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…
21 Nov 2024
TheOnoZone
What's the Point of Puzzles?
“Chess is 99% tactics,” is one of the most misleading chess quotes.
12 Apr 2024
Lichess
Candidates Round 7: Nepomniachtchi, Tan Lead Halfway Through
Gukesh loses to Firouzja, handing over the sole lead to Nepomniachtchi as Tan neutralizes Goryachkin…
19 Feb 2026
GM
Craze
The Top 10 Chess Openings In 2026
Discover the 10 openings performing the best in GM games in 2026
18 Jun 2024
WFM
fla2021
Control the center!!!
Four positions that demonstrate the superiority of controlling the center in chess
10 Aug 2025
JakeStateFarm
Recognizing Patterns in Atomic Chess: Part 1
Much of atomic can be boiled down to one part of the game: openings. But are openings really all abo…
15 Jan 2024
GM
NoelStuder
The Three Ways To Build Self Confidence
Today, I’m going to teach you how to become more self-confident when playing Chess.
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…
8 Sept 2021
NM
FischyVishy
Fabiano Caruana vs. The French Defense - Early Beginnings (Part 1)
This series of articles will cover Fabiano Caruana's games against the French Defense since the begi…
8 Oct 2025
Isemmelweis
Chess and Art
What things are artistically related to chess?
8 Sept 2026
FM
MattyDPerrine
You're Down a Pawn. Now Trade Pieces.
The title of the article isn’t a typo.
12 Mar 2022
njswift
The Advance Caro-Kann
The Botvinnik-Carls as a low-theoretical approach
7 Dec 2021
CM
Kingscrusher-YouTube
One of the worst blunders in World Chess Championship History
Game 9 - "The blunders are all there waiting to be made" - Saveilly Tartakower
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