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At one point I played this as black as much as I could and noticed 5Qd3. In typical non-960 fashion, once "everyone" has absorbed the engine analysis, via someone's course or their own investigation, …

chess is different from maths etc: your opponents also improve. Why would amateurs subject themselves to classical and standard (as opposed to 960)? when "The other major reason preventing adult impro…

to understand the mistake chesswise, on a8 the B is not able to sidestep exchange as it could on b7, from where it had moved a few moves back. Ding had the right idea toward the easiest draw by keepin…

Well done. I hope success in chess through hybrid tournaments becomes possible, making it accessible to more financial levels.

Top women's ratings are around 100 points too low, simply because there are more tangible rewards to playing the women's circuit than to chasing rating. Similarly titles, to a certain extent even GM, …

Beyond a certain point which is getting lower and lower anyone can have a perfect game so we can rather speak of form than strength. Since The Crown will be at stake at there is more incentive and his…

Scenario 1: a professional chess player finds enough sponsorship available, so does not give up traditional chess scenario 2: an expert player in a small community finds that it's no longer good enoug…

@Craze said in #2: > I believe Shogi has many similarities to crazyhouse regarding how the pieces can transform their movement later in the game, right? As to transformation, all shogi pieces except k…

also note link to sharpness article from word 'sharpness' in blog. Armageddon is interesting but not really chess. Forcing good players to blunder through +1s increment is some steps down for chess. R…

great to be able to turn it on or off depending on e.g. how you want to focus