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15 Feb 2025
Lichess
Announcing the ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix
A $20,000 prize event open to all Lichess streamers’ teams
8 Feb 2025
Zhrakos
Chess Broke My Heart... Here’s Why I Still Can’t Quit
Chess has broken my heart more times than I can count. But the worst? Losing to a 12-year-old in a r…
18 Feb 2025
BenjiPortheault
The War on Attention
I’m done consuming chess content
20 Feb 2025
ebk1976
The 12 Best Chess Players of All Time
Who never became world champion.
2 Feb 2025
Lichess
Lichess Game of the Month: December '24
Instructive attack against the castled king
3 Feb 2025
NM
Chess-Network
Praggnanandhaa's Brilliant Tactic at Tata Steel!!
One for the books
23 Feb 2025
noahlz
More Opening Principles for Beginners
"Now what...?"
3 Feb 2025
ebk1976
Ding-ness
What it is, why it occurs, and some ideas on how to snap out of it.
20 Feb 2025
NDpatzer
Science of Chess: Can you tell an easy puzzle from a tough one?
What makes some chess puzzles more difficult than others? Can strong players tell how hard a puzzle …
2 Feb 2025
Lichess
Tata Steel Chess 2025 R13: Praggnanandhaa Wins Electrifying Tiebreaks vs. Gukesh
GM Praggnanandhaa R and GM Gukesh D both lost their games in the final round of Tata Steel Chess 202…
1 Feb 2025
IM
theScot
Home Cooking: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
A post about the effect of opening preparation in modern chess
28 Feb 2025
CkickyCheck
My Most Ellegant Brilliant Move
A very rare home rank brilliant move.
13 Feb 2025
IM
NikolaN98
Blitz Domination: 5 tips to improve at blitz!
Blitz chess is the wild west of the 64 squares—a battlefield where speed meets strategy, and every s…
6 Feb 2025
GM
ILikeBlitz
Fourteen tips how to perform well in blitz
The post title says it all
27 Feb 2025
NM
Chess-Network
Shankland's AlphaZero Attack in the London System
Long-term static advantage
13 Feb 2025
CkickyCheck
My Best Zugzwang Game
2 rooks, bishop, king, 4 pawns and no good moves.
15 Feb 2025
Mcie
Pinned Pieces Don’t Defend—Creative play to exploit them!
Exploiting the Pin to Win
8 Feb 2025
TotalNoob69
Shatter the Philidor Defense with the Zombie King gambit
a devastating weapon against a supposedly solid opening
21 Feb 2025
CM
HanSchut
A Framework for Position Analysis
Improve your chess by using this analysis process from the Steps Method
20 Feb 2025
Gyllenstierna
Can Chess be Solved?
I use to follow the Quora chess space to catch up on what people ask about chess. Questions about so…
28 Feb 2025
Ledger4545
Lichess4545 interview: Meet the champs
We talk to some of our reigning Lichess4545 league champions. The interview was conducted by @fork20…
6 Feb 2025
GM
NoelStuder
From Bullied Kid To Grandmaster - How Chess Saved My Life
This article is a special one, and one that I thought about never publishing.
4 Feb 2025
Ledger4545
We crown the Lichess4545 Season 42 Champions!
....and The Ultimate Question was answered in round 1 already! Plus annotated game, 4545 interviews …
26 Feb 2025
Limouzi2024
The Petrosian Project - Introduction and a First King March
I am embarking on a journey to reach 2300 FIDE by adopting the subtle, prophylactic style of Tigran …
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