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17 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
Two Questions to Ask When You Are Winning
Most won games are thrown away by trading at random. A pawn up against two opponents in consultation…
16 Oct 2026
ecoarrivazumashoomzo
3 of the wannabe uzbek gms review their games.
Our games last round in the Classical Team Champions League reviewed by the players themselves. (Sat…
16 Oct 2026
IM
Lizard1
The Time Mikhail Tal Got Destroyed
This is a spectacular attacking masterpiece in which Lev Polugaevsky unleashed 25 moves of home prep…
16 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Pawn the Rook Could Not Leave: Capablanca's Advanced Passed pawn
Capablanca out calculates Fox in the complications. He comes out an exchange up and then rolls a paw…
15 Oct 2026
NM
Serog1sPerog1s
Thanksgiving Open Analysis Day 3 | Positional Debacles
This is Part 3/3 of my Thanksgiving tournament experience, played October 10-12. Each part focuses o…
15 Oct 2026
Mathmochess
47% of hanging pieces lost could have been saved at every rating (52,005 games)
We named 302,391 mistakes in 52,005 amateur games, rated 400 to 2399. The skill that does not improv…
14 Oct 2026
NM
Serog1sPerog1s
Thanksgiving Open Analysis Day 2 | Risk & Reward
This is Part 2/3 of my Thanksgiving tournament experience, played October 10-12. Each part focuses o…
14 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Attack That Should Not Have Worked: Capablanca's Pawn Storm
Capablanca throws his queenside pawns at a castled king and the engine says the attack is not sound.…
13 Oct 2026
IM
justiniano565
Small Variations in 960 starting positions I
Why starting positions that we may confound at a first glance have different evaluations?
13 Oct 2026
NM
Serog1sPerog1s
Thanksgiving Open Analysis Day 1 | New Openings Against Kids
This is Part 1/3 of my Thanksgiving tournament experience, played October 10-12. Each part focuses o…
13 Oct 2026
IM
datajunkie
What most improvers are missing (a new GM explains)
Interview Part 2/2: how Rishi Sardana got from 1800 to IM, and advice for improvers
13 Oct 2026
NM
suhaasn
Three Games That Got Me to NM
A rematch, a draw with a GM, and my first win over an FM. Three games from the climb back up, with t…
13 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
Count Tempi, Not Material: Capablanca Mates Two Pieces Down
Kings castled on opposite wings turn a game into a race. Raubitschek went material hunting with his …
12 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
Hunt the Uncastled King: Capablanca at Twelve Years Old
The champion of Cuba chose a gambit to punish a boy with no opening theory. Instead he lost the righ…
12 Oct 2026
d4Nc3Bf4
ROAD TO FM - Week 4: The sacrifice that repeated!
This week, I’ll be sharing a very beautiful combination that occured in a recent game.
11 Oct 2026
TotalNoob69
Brilliant move detection in LiChess Tools
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10 Oct 2026
Kampfschach_Official
The Man Who Beat the Champion at 23: Charousek’s Games, Remastered
Converting a 1919 book into playable Lichess studies
10 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
Rook Versus Two Pieces: How Carlsen Rescued a Lost Endgame
Anand sacrificed the exchange and had Carlsen lost on the board and down to his last seconds. Carlse…
10 Oct 2026
RuyLopez1000
The Secret History of Chess Engines
"It doesn’t mean Kasparov isn’t a deep thinker, just that you can bypass deep thinking in playing ch…
9 Oct 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Long-Range Pair: How Capablanca Won a Pawn Down
Capablanca dropped a pawn on purpose. To let a long range bishop and rooks on the seventh outclass a…
7 Oct 2026
d4Nc3Bf4
ROAD To FM 2300- Week 3: Lessons from Tournament play!
This week was about putting my training to test over the board!
5 Oct 2026
CkickyCheck
Provoking the Richter-Veresov
Inviting Jobava London's cousin to a fight.
5 Oct 2026
RootedChess
Steinitz's Principles: Harmony and Coordination
"Chess is a game of imagination " - David Bronstein
5 Oct 2026
Lichess
Lichess Game of the Month: August '26
The long diagonal paves the way to White's king
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