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2.4yr
World Chess Championship Drama!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L01EdYymhCgRecap of games 3, 4 and 5 of the Women's World Championship
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2.4yr
Laser: a really cool chess variant
https://playlaser.xyz/These rules are novel and the game is both fun and deep. Make sure you read the rules before playing!
12
2.4yr
Chess.com bug? Or am I an idiot?
My son asked me how to castle on chess.com the other day, and I found that I couldn't do it the way I normally do. Picking up the king and trying to move it to c1 just caused it to move to d1 instead, every time. I tried walking backwards and redoing a few different moves before this, and that all worked, but it just refused to let me castle by moving the king. Neither the king nor the rook had moved yet, and there was no potential or existing check involved, so what gives? Is there some other rule I'm just not aware of? ... read full post
10
2.4yr
King wandered too far, now there's mate in 3 in the middle of the board. Can you find it?
7
2.4yr
WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayP4r6UFgzkLevy Rozman aka GothamChess covers the first two games of the Women's World Championship
5
2.4yr
The Art of Trading Pieces in Chess
https://lichess.org/@/GABUZYAN_CHESSMOOD/blog/the-art-of-trading-pieces-in-chess/HjL1lS4P10
2.4yr
I think 1100s are harder than 1300s
I have wide swings in my ELO on chess.com. My highest is 1425. I’m typically 1350. But I’ll nosedive into large slumps sometimes. ... read full post
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2.4yr
White to move and win (difficult) - Tigran Gorgiev, 1929
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I checkmated someone using long castle
https://lichess.org/qi8UwcPQI enjoyed it, so I thought I'd share 🙂
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2.4yr
Bishop vs Knight In Chess: A Grandmaster Guide
https://lichess.org/@/NoelStuder/blog/bishop-vs-knight-in-chess-a-grandmaster-guide/bOyoIiYd6
2.4yr
Pairings tree for the 2023 World Cup
https://worldcup2023.fide.com/treeAfter much speculation, both Carlsen and Nakamura will participate in the World Cup from July 29th to August 25th. The most notable absences are World Champion Ding Liren, Alireza Firouzja and Levon Aronian. Aronian cited concerns about the tournament being held in Azerbaijan.
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Black to play and mate in 3
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2.4yr
2023 SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia | Grand Chess Tour
https://grandchesstour.org/2023-grand-chess-tour/2023-superunited-rapid-blitz-croatiaThe SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz is the third tournament and midway point of the Grand Chess Tour, taking place in Zagreb, Croatia. ... read full post
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2.4yr
FIDE Women's World Championship Match 2023
https://fide.com/news/2482The title of Women's World Champion will be decided from July 5th to July 23rd 2023. The contenders are Ju Wenjun (2566, current World Champion) and Lei Tingjie (2554) both from China. ... read full post
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2.4yr
Bullet Chess Championship 2023: Carlsen, Nakamura and Firouzja confirmed
https://www.chess.com/news/view/announcing-2023-bcc9
2.5yr
Chess heatmaps but better
https://lichess.org/@/oortcloud_o/blog/chess-heatmaps-but-better/6zwdfTXR#chess #visualization
1
2.5yr
The Complete Checkmate Patterns List (with examples)
https://lichess.org/@/Avetik_ChessMood/blog/the-complete-checkmate-patterns-list-with-examples/g3A73qZq4
2.5yr
Global Chess League - Finals
Format ... read full post
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2.5yr
Global Chess League: Personal performances
Now that the group stage is over, we can discuss which players have made a good/not so good effort for their teams ... read full post
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2.5yr
Stockfish 16 released
https://stockfishchess.org/download/Changelog (from their GitHub repo): ... read full post
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2.5yr
Global Chess League - Day 10
Format ... read full post
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2.5yr
Coding Adventure: Making a Stronger Chess Engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vqlIPDR2TUAn interesting video were Sebastian Lague explains how he optimized his chess bot. You can play against his bot in Lichess.
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2.5yr
Global Chess League - Day 9
Format ... read full post
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2.5yr
Caro-Kann Defense: Accelerated Panov Attack, Pseudo-Scandinavian: The worst opening ever?
https://lichess.org/opening/Caro-Kann_Defense_Accelerated_Panov_Attack_Pseudo-Scandinavian/e4_c6_c4_d5_exd5_Qxd5- e4 c6 2. c4 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5, blundering the queen on move 3. The Lichess database features 747 games with this opening, and only 82% of them continue with 4. cxd5
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Global Chess League - Day 8
Format ... read full post