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23 Jan 2025
GM
Avetik_ChessMood
10 Things to Give Up to Enjoy Chess Fully
Discover how embracing a lighter mindset can help you enjoy chess again and achieve better results.
16 Jan 2025
Lichess
Lichess: A review of 2024!
As we say goodbye to 2024, let’s look back at everything we’ve achieved, the impact Lichess has had …
1 Jan 2025
ebk1976
Aging in Chess
The age too old for gold.
1 Jan 2025
CyberShredder
World Rapid and Blitz being absolute meme
Some news, memes, controversies
23 Jan 2025
ebk1976
The Chess YouTube Revolution
How Chess Creators influence opening choices immensely
1 Jan 2025
Lichess
Lichess Game of the Month: November '24
Beautiful exploitation of over-ambitious kingside play
24 Jan 2025
dirkster99
The Vukovic Mating Pattern
Another puzzle theme generated from critmint-orchard.org data
25 Jan 2025
NM
RyanVelez
I took my time, my opponent didn't, and I still lost!
Time management goes deeper than calculating your average time-per-move.
9 Jan 2025
Mcie
The Elegant Cross Pin
Where Tactics meet Art!
19 Jan 2025
NM
Chess-Network
Gukesh D vs Anish Giri | Tata Steel Chess 2025
Dark square problems
1 Jan 2025
NM
Chess-Network
Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi share Blitz Chess Champion Title in historic finale
A peaceful resolution
6 Jan 2025
CM
HanSchut
The Steps Method for learning and teaching chess
A comprehensive chess curriculum for novice to master rooted in strong didactic principles
15 Jan 2025
dirkster99
Parsing Chess Data to Discover Mating Patterns
Finding more training material in puzzles already available on critmint-orchard.org
15 Jan 2025
WFM
fla2021
What You Need to Know About the Dynamic Center
Through examples, we'll learn how to play in dynamic center positions.
12 Jan 2025
ebk1976
The Blunder Streak
How you tilt, lose control, and squander your rating
28 Jan 2025
FM
jeffforever
Interview with "The Beast" GM Adhiban Baskaran
Get to know the "Adhiban Gambit" founder
16 Jan 2025
CM
HanSchut
Are you training to raise your ceiling or floor?
What is limiting your overall chess performance, your ceiling or floor?
17 Jan 2025
ebk1976
The 11 Best Bloggers on Lichess
The most entertaining, educating, and value creating bloggers on the site in my opinion.
2 Jan 2025
Ledger4545
We have found meaning of life in Lichess4545 League
....season 42 has arrived.
15 Jan 2025
FM
mizant83
The Alapin Gambit - Refuted!
How to deal with the Alapin Gambit in the French Defense (with Black)?
11 Jan 2025
DaBassie
A radical experiment with my opening repertoire
I’m going to only play the openings that I usually try to avoid like death. I’m curious to see wheth…
19 Jan 2025
FM
Millionaire_19
What If Magnus Carlsen Played Bobby Fischer?
Chess fans have always enjoyed speculating about fantasy matchups between legendary players from dif…
25 Jan 2025
FM
mizant83
How to Play Classical Reti with Bf5 & Bd6 (for White)
Handling the Classical Reti: Black’s Setup with c6, d5, e6, and Bishops on f5 and d6!
25 Jan 2025
Mcie
The Art of Interference
When Disruption Creates Brilliance
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