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18 Sept 2026
IM
trainingaccount996
Olympiad 2026 - Round 2: Test Your Chess
Round 2 is in the books, and once again there was plenty of interesting chess to dig into.
18 Sept 2026
WFM
szefru
When There’s Nothing Urgent to Solve
Applying “Board Vision First, Strategy Later” in a calm game
18 Sept 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Crippled Majority: How Lasker Beat Capablanca on Structure
One of the most famous strategic games ever played. Lasker saddles Capablanca with a crippled queens…
18 Sept 2026
GM
ChessMindAI
Chess Olympiad 2026: Game of the Day Round #2
GM Awonder Liang defeated by IM Itgelt in a Very Instructive Benoni
17 Sept 2026
sgis
Chess Olympiad 2026: round 2 in numbers
The draws arrive. A 73-minute think, a six-move checkmate, a 1719 beating a 2266, and a 126-move end…
17 Sept 2026
FM
BuendiaChess
Olympiad Round 2 Recap: Sacrifices, Scares and Early Warning Signs
Round 2 of the Chess Olympiad already gave us much more to talk about than the opening day. The rati…
17 Sept 2026
IM
trainingaccount996
Olympiad 2026 - Round 1: Test Your Chess
The Olympiad is here, and there is already plenty of interesting chess to dig into.
17 Sept 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Rule of Three: The Candidate Move Capablanca Never Calculated
The fourth game in Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals is a loss he handed himself, and it teaches the o…
16 Sept 2026
sgis
Chess Olympiad 2026: round 1 in numbers
I ran every finished game of the Olympiad's first round through a stats script: a 51-minute think, a…
16 Sept 2026
GM
ChessMindAI
Chess Olympiad Round #1: Game of the Day
Checkout how IM Prin Laohawirapap defeats Super GM Arjun Erigaisi
16 Sept 2026
FM
BuendiaChess
Olympiad Round 1 Recap: Erigaisi Falls & Many Draws
The 2026 Chess Olympiad is underway, and the first round followed the usual pattern of the event: th…
16 Sept 2026
FM
dus01
Svetozar Gligorić: Life & Legacy
A young boy from Belgrade, who lost both his parents before his 18th birthday, fought against the Na…
16 Sept 2026
Sonnetx
Maróczy Gambit in the Fantasy Variation: The Caro-Kann has been crushed!
A post about the Caro-Kann Maróczy Gambit in the Fantasy Variation.
16 Sept 2026
WFM
fla2021
F1,Legends & Prodigies Tournament, Toto's Chess Club, and the Cramling Family!
Madrid's Best Chess Week Ever:Last week Madrid had it all: the Legends & Prodigies tournament, Formu…
16 Sept 2026
The_Knightmare_Bro
The Power of The Bishop Pair
Englisch vs Steinitz, 1883.
16 Sept 2026
GetDiscombobulated
How To Always Attack the Italian Opening
Full Repertoire of Totally Sound, Sharp Attacking Lines that Super-GM's have lost to!!
16 Sept 2026
OnTheQueenside
2026 Women's Olympiad Preview
Uzbekistan’s big stage.
15 Sept 2026
IM
datajunkie
Play openings you actually like
A chess lesson from Fantasy Premier League
15 Sept 2026
Lichess
2026 Samarkand Olympiad: Preview
The 2026 Samarkand Olympiad promises to be a very exciting and memorable chess Olympiad.
15 Sept 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Uncastled King: Why Capablanca Lost by Staying in the Centre
The third game in Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals is a loss, and it turns on the most basic rule in …
15 Sept 2026
IM
Neimar24
Surprising Your Opponents with the Kupreichik Sicilian
In this post we are going to talk about one interesting variation of the Sicilian Defense.
15 Sept 2026
RuyLopez1000
Chess Improvement is a Spinning Top geometrically speaking...
A study of 1 Billion Games on Lichess and FICS.
14 Sept 2026
DimBro
DimBro's Game of the Month: I Got Crushed in 15 Moves at the NJ Open
I recently played in the famous USCF annual tournament New Jersey Open, playing in the Under 1400 se…
14 Sept 2026
CkickyCheck
Time to draw conclusions
A post about chess games... I think...
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