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6 Jul 2025
Mcie
Calculate until the end.. and one move more!
Blunder or brilliancy, sometimes it all hinges on one more move.
30 Jul 2025
WFM
Bullet_House
Understanding Danger: What Makes a Move Bad?
“It Looked Fine...” Until It Wasn’t
29 Jul 2025
Lichess
FIDE Women's World Cup Finals: Divya Wins
Divya Deshmukh beat Koneru Humpy in the final tiebreaks, earned the GM title, and won $50,000, while…
1 Jul 2025
Lichess
Lichess Game of the Month: May '25
The French Defense dismantled
6 Jul 2025
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How Do Chess Engines Really Work?
Have you ever wondered what was the logic at work in a chess computer program? If that's the case, t…
29 Jul 2025
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"Play Till Kings": How I Became a National Master by Declining Draws
How Saying “No” Transformed My Game And Why You Should Do the Same
6 Jul 2025
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PseudoBenko
Vintage Theory
Exploring Ancient Openings
30 Jul 2025
NM
HarpSeal
Why Leela Plays Bad Moves (That Work)
Why does Leela play like a weirdo in odds games when she's down a lot of material?
4 Jul 2025
IM
HelloItsDmitri
What are pawns used for in chess?
It has been said that pawns are the soul of chess. But what exactly is the job of the weakest, yet m…
14 Jul 2025
FIDE
Join the Global Online Celebration for International Chess Day
FIDE, in partnership with critmint-orchard.org, invites chess-lovers from around the world to take part in th…
30 Jul 2025
Dell_Iris
The best moves in atomic
Remember that with black pieces we can use the same tactics as with white, but it is important to ke…
1 Jul 2025
TeoKajLibroj
How I won a chess tournament
How I got 1st place in the Drogheda Fox Major
6 Jul 2025
LKama
King's Gambit vs. Queen's Gambit: A Statistical Breakdown by Elo
I'm developing an open-source tool to analyze opening statistics from the Lichess database. I ran a …
19 Jul 2025
LM
Assios
Arena Replay: A tool to replay Arena standings in real-time
Ever wished you could rewatch the drama of an Arena as it happened?
11 Jul 2025
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Lichess Qualifiers for Kazakhstan Cup 2025 - Almaty
A $2,000 online prize fund event - with three winners qualifying with flights and accomodation cover…
26 Jul 2025
scorpio08
How I Won My First Classical Chess Tournament: Lessons from an Adult Improver
If you started playing serious chess as an adult, and you've ever dreamed of real improvement or ste…
18 Jul 2025
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fla2021
How to Punish the Latvian Gambit as White
Latvian Gambit... with White!
14 Jul 2025
LKama
The Shape of Time: How Openings Evolve from Blitz to Classical
I had a dream that the relationship between a player's Elo and the time on their clock was simple an…
1 Jul 2025
NDpatzer
Science of Chess: Winning Streaks, Losing Streaks, and Skill
Being a patzer is hard, and it can be even worse when loss follows loss!
12 Jul 2025
GM
spidy92
IM-GM transformation!
India's latest GM! Harikrishnan!
10 Jul 2025
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Bullet_House
The Jobava London System: Play it, Counter it, Master it!
Do you want an aggressive, easy-to-learn system that can throw your opponents off balance? Or perhap…
4 Jul 2025
Toadofsky
History Always Repeats
We live in an era where people fail to listen to one another.
3 Jul 2025
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World Cup Preview
Three Candidates spots on the line!
19 Jul 2025
TeoKajLibroj
Can my local club win promotion in our chess league?
The finale of our quest for promotion
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