Kaiba2_2Endgame Practice: Knight vs. Pawn
When I studied knight endgames I would let AI creat a random position for practice. One position I s…
FM amazingatlasThree Directions at Once: How Capablanca Won a Level Queen Ending
Material was dead even and the books call it a draw. Capablanca centralized his queen so she blockad…
ElementalMaster1The Complete U2000 Guide to Theoretical Endgames
Everything you need in order to not have to worry about endgames anymore
FM amazingatlasWin Because of It, Not With It: Capablanca's Passed Pawn Paradox
Capablanca built two connected passed pawns that never queened. Their whole value was the paralysis …
FM amazingatlasThe Minority Attack in Disguise: How Capablanca Won With Fewer Pawns
Everyone learns the minority attack as White, on the queenside, in a Queen's Gambit middlegame. Capa…
CPBchessEstructuras de Peones: El Peón Pasado (Parte 4) Alekhine vs Capablanca
La histórica partida decisiva cuya posición final, con las piezas, tablero y planillas originales se…
MradsomerEndgame Bootcamp 16
(Not) Another King rook and pawn ending!?
FM amazingatlasHunt the Naked King: How Capablanca Beat Lasker With a Single Quiet Move
The last decisive game these two giants ever played. In a dead-level queen ending, Capablanca hunts …
FM amazingatlasSimplify, Then Strike: How Capablanca Untangled a Jam and Queened a Pawn
Eight heavy pieces crammed onto two files, and an advantage almost too small to see. Capablanca diss…
FM amazingatlasPosition First, Material Next: How Capablanca Won a Pawn Down vs Two Masters
A consultation game: Capablanca alone against two strong masters. He lets them win a pawn, centraliz…
FM amazingatlasThe Knight Dances: How Capablanca Beat a Bad Bishop in the Series Finale
The sixtieth and final game of Chernev's book. Capablanca lures Reshevsky into a knight-versus-bisho…
FM amazingatlasProactive Prevention: The Question That Cost Even Capablanca a Game
A brand new series on Capablanca's own Chess Fundamentals, and he opens the book with a game he lost…
IM Lizard1God-Level Defense by White
White was under heavy pressure, short on time, and seemingly condemned to passive defense, but throu…
FM amazingatlasThe Uncastled King: How a Young Capablanca Lost by Not Castling
The third game in Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals is another loss, and it turns on the most basic ru…
FM amazingatlasThe Rule of Three: The Candidate Move Capablanca Never Calculated
The fourth game in Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals is his second straight loss to the same habit, no…
FM amazingatlasThe Crippled Majority: How Lasker Beat Capablanca on Structure
One of the most famous strategic games ever played. At St. Petersburg 1914, Emanuel Lasker needed a …
FM amazingatlasWhoever Attacks Wins: How Opposite-Coloured Bishops Beat Capablanca
The last loss Capablanca ever published. A pawn up with a great knight on d5, he was crushed anyway,…
FM amazingatlasTake the Outpost: How Capablanca Won by Owning One Square
Capablanca's first win in his own book. No combination, no crisis. He plays a modest setup, waits fo…
FM amazingatlasMaterial Is a Resource, Not a Plan: Two Questions When Ahead
This game teaches from both sides. Capablanca goes wrong first and hands Mieses the exchange. Then M…
FM MattyDPerrineYou're Down a Pawn. Now Trade Pieces.
The title of the article isn’t a typo.
FM amazingatlasThe Square in Front: How to Play Against an Isolated Pawn
An isolated pawn's real cost is the square in front of it, which no pawn can ever guard again. Capab…
FM amazingatlasDeveloped Is Not Active: Piece Activity vs Development
Marshall got every piece off the back rank and was still worse, because none of them attacked anythi…
MEGALODON777hsRounding up the first week of the GCL - All the games you need to know
Looking at some key games from the 2026 edition of the Global Chess League in Bengaluru, India
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