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Stafford Gambit PopularityFM CheckRaiseMate

oh no my metagame

Measuring Eric Rosen's impact on the popularity of the Stafford GambitHow not to learn chess as a complete beginnerFM mizant83

What Beginners Get Wrong About Learning Chess

This post may be interesting primarily to complete beginners, or to those who are just starting thei…CM ChessFlow_orgCEO

How to Study Chess Openings

Get more out of every opening courseNDpatzer

Science of Chess: What does it mean to have a "chess personality?"

What kind of player are you? How do we tell?NDpatzer

Science of Chess (kinda?): Viih_Sou's 2. Ra3 and a modest research proposal

Take the 2. Ra3 Challenge! For Science!GM NoelStuder

Why Making Mistakes is Your Secret Weapon

I love making mistakes. Yes, you read that correctly. I have come to realize that making mistakes is…GM NoelStuder

Opening Courses: Are They Worth Buying ?

Opening courses are everywhere. The prospect of playing the same line as a Top Player is just too te…GM Durarbayli

Game of the Week XL-Mastrovasilis,Athanasios (2523) - Nikolov,Momchil (2522)

“Pattern Recognition” has become a common term in chess language, and everyone wants to find an easi…En Croissant Pratice PanelFrankWillow

Training Openings with En Croissant

En Croissant is an app that lets you easily build and practice all of your openings.Practical Openings ApproachNM RyanVelez

Practical Openings Approach

This post is for people who need to learn openings, but struggle.Manual castling setup in the Tartakower Caro-KannIM Levi_1604

Rethinking the Tartakower Caro-Kann: Manual Castling

The Tartakower Variation is one of the modern mainlines of the Caro-Kann Defense, leading to rich an…GM Durarbayli

Game of the Week XLVI-Shirov,Alexei (2673) - Erdos,Viktor (2615)

What should you do if you cannot figure out how to equalize against a certain opening variation?GM NoelStuder

Grandmaster Draws Explained

The term Grandmaster Draw most likely brings a sad image to your mind. Two lazy Grandmasters are lea…WFM szefru

Your Opponent Made an Opening Mistake. Now What?

How to punish inaccurate opening playGM Durarbayli

Game of the Week XXXIX-Bjerre,Jonas Buhl (2550) - Grandelius,Nils (2666)

The story goes that Robert James Fischer used to study all published chess games, including the USSR…FM mizant83

Play the Bogo-indian defense (structural approach)

Taken from an online live chess lessonSam ShanklandNM Chess-Network

Shankland's AlphaZero Attack in the London System

Long-term static advantageachja

The Scandi d pawn of white.

In the Scandi the white d pawn can be a target for black but sometimes an asset for white.WFM fla2021

Bored with Black? Learn the O'Kelly Sicilian in Just One Day!

The O'Kelly SicilianNM MrPushwood

The Day We Discovered The Scholar's Mate

Return with me to those wacky days of yesteryear--back when Elvis was still alive and Elton John was…CkickyCheck

Beating the Accelerated London

Another weird line, this time for the Black pieces. Very dynamic, and punishes natural moves.openingscannerChessAtlasApp

I built a free tool to analyze your chess openings repertoire weaknesses

You think you know your repertoire. You probably don't. A free, open source tool that scans your Lic…flash3s

A hitchhiker's guide to three classic pawn structures

How to approach three common pawn structures you probably see in your gamesIM Lizard1

The Rook That Did Nothing — Until It Won the Game

Watch White mysteriously lift a rook up one square — only for it to decide the game later.