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7 Aug 2026
FM
amazingatlas
King Safety Is Paramount: How Capablanca Won a Queen Ending With One Quiet Move
The first pure queen ending of the series. Material was level and Capablanca's pawns were worse, but…
7 Aug 2026
Fire-work
[PART 2] I made program to find craziest sacrifices in a row.
"Should I even mention that we are sacrificing a rook, a knight and a queen?"
7 Aug 2026
WFM
szefru
The Right Way to Train Your Tactics
Why Solving Puzzles Isn't Helping You Improve
7 Aug 2026
IM
Lizard1
Magnus Pushes the H-Pawn And Destroys a GM
Magnus spends the opening pushing his h-pawn instead of developing his pieces, and somehow that same…
6 Aug 2026
ElementalMaster1
The Art of the Exchange Sacrifice
A crazy game during a recent tournament of mine
6 Aug 2026
CM
loristavernier
Win as Black with a Solid and Aggressive Opening Repertoire.
This course was supposed to be uploaded on a chess opening course online - but decided to no longer …
6 Aug 2026
pawngrid
Einstein’s Foreword to Lasker’s Biography
An AI Translation of the Original German
6 Aug 2026
paunchypawn
So why analyse your own games?
But I thought we all wanted to improve?
6 Aug 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Transformation Doctrine: How Capablanca Won Without Capturing the Weakness
Capablanca attacked Rubinstein's isolated pawn all game, then gave up that attack on purpose to seiz…
6 Aug 2026
danthedestroyer317
Fischer vs Spassky I: Before the Match
Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky played each other five times before their 1972 World Championship ma…
5 Aug 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Endgame Capablanca Had to Win Twice: Steiner vs Capablanca, 1928
Capablanca reached a won ending, let the cleanest win slip with a natural move, and then had to win …
5 Aug 2026
IM
Lizard1
My Favorite Way to Combat the King's Gambit
The King's Gambit can look intimidating to accept, but Black doesn't have to play passively, and so …
5 Aug 2026
TheCommandalorian
Road to NM: Week 4 — Building a Bridge to 1600 Quick Rated
Welcome back to week 4 on the Road to NM series!
5 Aug 2026
RuyLopez1000
The 1948 World Championship
The Match Tournament.
5 Aug 2026
CM
jeigoth5
Practical Play vs Computer Play
The best engine move is not always the best practical decision. In this game, time pressure and the …
4 Aug 2026
FM
amazingatlas
Two Plans and a King: How Capablanca's King Won the Endgame
Capablanca marched his king into the centre the moment the queens came off, ran both endgame plans a…
4 Aug 2026
Lichess
Lichess Game of the Month: June '26
A queen sacrifice — with check!
3 Aug 2026
FM
amazingatlas
When the Knight Beats the Bishop: Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927
The mirror of the last game. Alekhine holds the long bishop, but with the pawns all on one wing, an …
3 Aug 2026
TotalNoob69
The xQc variation in the Van't Kruijs
... seems amateurish, but it is valid
2 Aug 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Weak King Decides: How Capablanca Zugzwanged Nimzowitsch
Capablanca beat the great theoretician of prophylaxis and zugzwang with his own weapon, aiming every…
2 Aug 2026
FM
realcyberbird
Fun stats about the Lichess 2026 Summer Marathon
Stats like: Who played the most games, who reached the top 100 with the lowest number of games
1 Aug 2026
Mike-Shea
Sometimes you just get lucky
There are times when you find yourself in a terrible position, trying to do anything you can to surv…
1 Aug 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Bishop Outruns the Knight: Capablanca vs Vidmar, 1927
With the material dead level, Capablanca kept the bishop pair, traded into a pure bishop against kni…
31 Jul 2026
TotalNoob69
Delaying d6 in the Indian Defense
... valid lines, very unintuitive
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