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7 Apr 2025
Lichess
2025 Women's World Chess Championship Game 4: Neck and Neck
Ju Wenjun holds the draw, despite the time disadvantage and harder position to navigate, with the ma…
15 Oct 2025
FM
BuendiaChess
UKRAINE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS
During the last 10 days in Georgia has taken place the european team championships and Ucraine had t…
4 Jan 2025
DaBassie
I played a chess tournament and made these mistakes
A chess-technical and psychological overview of my mistakes in a futile attempt to improve future re…
26 Feb 2024
FM
CheckRaiseMate
US Amateur Team East Recap
The good, the bad, and the ugly
21 Sept 2024
Lichess
2024 Budapest Olympiad Round 9: India Leads Open, Kazakhstan 1st in Women's
India is still two points ahead in the Open as Kazakhstan takes sole 1st in the Women's.
1 Apr 2025
FM
CheckRaiseMate
Mailbag: OTB Tournaments
What are people saying about OTB chess?
10 May 2026
RuyLopez1000
World Champion Tiebreaks: A Counter-Intuitive Proposal.
The Winner is the one who wins the Coin Toss.
14 Apr 2026
IM
trainingaccount996
Game of the Week 13/52
Welcome to Game of the Week #13! This is a short but very instructive game showing how to handle a p…
26 Dec 2024
OnTheQueenside
Differences between FIDE Circuit and Women's FIDE Circuit
FIDE has launched another circuit.
24 Mar 2026
CM
AdrianoNunesFX
When preparation meets opportunity: looking back at my first chess tournament
In this blog post, I'll address my first classical chess tournament, which I've referred to in my pr…
30 Mar 2026
Lichess
Candidates Round 2: Calm Round Sees Octuple Draws
The Open saw four relatively quiet draws, but in the Women's, only two games were calm draws as GM K…
19 Apr 2026
FM
jeffforever
Interview with GM Felix Blohberger alias febloh
Get to know the 24-year-old chess professional from the Austrian capital Vienna
4 Dec 2021
CM
Kingscrusher-YouTube
World Chess Championship 2021 Game 6 || Longest ever World Chess Champ. game
"I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.”- Emanuel Lasker
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…
28 Apr 2026
TheOnoZone
Chess Enlightenment
I open the door and literally fall to my knees, face in hands.
25 Mar 2024
NM
RyanVelez
Resigning Strategy
This article is for anyone who wants to understand the strategy of resigning, at both low and high l…
1 Dec 2024
overgeared
Rounds 4, 5, and 6: Draws Filled with Drama and Missed Opportunities
The 2024 FIDE World Chess Championship continues with intense battles in Rounds 4, 5, and 6, each en…
26 Nov 2024
overgeared
What Went Wrong for Gukesh in Round 1 of 2024 FIDE World Championship Match?
The highly anticipated opening round of the 2024 FIDE World Chess Championship between India's Gukes…
21 Aug 2023
FM
CheckRaiseMate
Reviewing My Games From A 15-minute Tournament
Key moments from an OTB tournament
26 Jul 2022
CM
ChuckPhil
How i crossed 2200 Elo in the Dortmund Sparkassen A-Open
In 2018, I got my first FIDE rating in classical chess: 2179. At that time, I had already been playi…
26 Jun 2023
IM
datajunkie
#20: Book review: Chess for Life
4 out of 5 stars!
8 Sept 2024
OnTheQueenside
August Top 25 Women's Rankings: Vaishali to No. 3, Divya +10!
A fantastic few months for India!
25 May 2023
GM
NoelStuder
Everyone Can Improve Their Chess
While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to chess improvement, there is one thing everyone has i…
27 May 2026
gh0strpm
Analyzing Games Based on Opening #5 - King's Indian Attack
Analyzing super GM games everyday!
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