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16 Oct 2026
ecoarrivazumashoomzo
3 of the wannabe uzbek gms review their games.
Our games last round in the Classical Team Champions League reviewed by the players themselves. (Sat…
16 Oct 2026
FM
Zig_Zag_Zug_Zwang
The Pyramid of Evaluation [Part 1]
There is nothing more important in chess than the ability to evaluate a position. Without it, you ca…
16 Oct 2026
IM
Lizard1
The Time Mikhail Tal Got Destroyed
This is a spectacular attacking masterpiece in which Lev Polugaevsky unleashed 25 moves of home prep…
16 Oct 2026
WFM
szefru
The Most Basic Pawn Endgame Is Harder Than You Think
One Pawn, Two Kings, and a Lot to Think About
16 Oct 2026
FDAIMAN
Problemas en la identificación de patrones
En algunas partidas existen varias posibilidades donde muchas ejercen el factor distractor sobre la …
16 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Pawn the Rook Could Not Leave: Capablanca's Advanced Passed pawn
Capablanca out calculates Fox in the complications. He comes out an exchange up and then rolls a paw…
15 Oct 2026
Mathmochess
47% of hanging pieces lost could have been saved at every rating (52,005 games)
We named 302,391 mistakes in 52,005 amateur games, rated 400 to 2399. The skill that does not improv…
14 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Attack That Should Not Have Worked: Capablanca's Pawn Storm
Capablanca throws his queenside pawns at a castled king and the engine says the attack is not sound.…
13 Oct 2026
IM
justiniano565
Small Variations in 960 starting positions I
Why starting positions that we may confound at a first glance have different evaluations?
13 Oct 2026
IM
datajunkie
What most improvers are missing (a new GM explains)
Interview Part 2/2: how Rishi Sardana got from 1800 to IM, and advice for improvers
13 Oct 2026
NM
suhaasn
Three Games That Got Me to NM
A rematch, a draw with a GM, and my first win over an FM. Three games from the climb back up, with t…
13 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
Count Tempi, Not Material: Capablanca Mates Two Pieces Down
Kings castled on opposite wings turn a game into a race. Raubitschek went material hunting with his …
12 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
Hunt the Uncastled King: Capablanca at Twelve Years Old
The champion of Cuba chose a gambit to punish a boy with no opening theory. Instead he lost the righ…
12 Oct 2026
Onion_Baba
Chess Rules of Thumb: GM Elisabeth Pähtz
A set of practical guidelines for choosing plans in the middlegame and endgame, and for finding cand…
12 Oct 2026
Ledger4545
Lichess4545 Round 3: Arrr You Not Entertained?
I am.
12 Oct 2026
d4Nc3Bf4
ROAD TO FM - Week 4: The sacrifice that repeated!
This week, I’ll be sharing a very beautiful combination that occured in a recent game.
11 Oct 2026
TheCommandalorian
Road to NM -- Weeks 12 & 13: Anticipation
Welcome back to weeks 12 + 13 on the Road to NM series where I account my progress on the road towar…
11 Oct 2026
TheoLowstein
Know your Dragons
Learn the difference between the Sicilian Dragon, Accelerated Dragon, Hyper-Accelerated Dragon and o…
11 Oct 2026
Rqtte
Chess Improvement Journey | Week 15
This week I played my first OTB match since my though 2000+ OTB tournament. And I ...
11 Oct 2026
FM
Zig_Zag_Zug_Zwang
How Masters See the Board
My friend studying psychology sent me this picture from one of his books:
11 Oct 2026
TotalNoob69
Brilliant move detection in LiChess Tools
... full description
10 Oct 2026
Kampfschach_Official
The Man Who Beat the Champion at 23: Charousek’s Games, Remastered
Converting a 1919 book into playable Lichess studies
10 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
Rook Versus Two Pieces: How Carlsen Rescued a Lost Endgame
Anand sacrificed the exchange and had Carlsen lost on the board and down to his last seconds. Carlse…
10 Oct 2026
RuyLopez1000
The Secret History of Chess Engines
"It doesn’t mean Kasparov isn’t a deep thinker, just that you can bypass deep thinking in playing ch…
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