CHESS. B22 Sicilian Defense (Alapin Variation) against Komodo 20.
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Top 7 Mistakes Chess Beginners Always Make (+ Video)
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Game of the Week - Week 3
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Steiner
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Are Chess.com Adaptive Bots Truly Adaptive?
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Checkmate Patterns - Sniper Mate
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Ladies and Gentlemen. Introducing The New … MGM Chess Title!
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Bobby Fischer hated chess?!
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Understand Your Resources-Positional Play
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How to play Caro-Kann Defense (+ Video)
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Lubomir Kavalek 1943 - 2021 ++
Born in Czechoslovakia, currently the Czech Republic, Kavalek began to give remarkable results from a very young age, managing to consecrate himself for the first time at the age of 19 as National Champion of his country in 1962, a place that he w...
The Move that Revives the Von Hennig Schara Gambit
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iHasCupquake Will Play Chess with Naycir
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Purposeful Practice in Chess
Today, I'm going to be taking a break from analyzing one of my games and discuss something I've been studying for the last few years - how to practice and get better at chess. I think we all have a few opinions on what the best way to go about it ...
Webinar 66. Endgame Fundamentals
Dear Chess Friends! How often do you pass the game into the endgame? I have to play the endgame in 70% of all my games. In other 30%, I finish the game in the middlegame with a tactical combination or a strong attack and gain extra material. D...
Therapeutic chess.
Most of the studies dedicated to showing the psychological effects of confinement, report negative results associated with stress, confusion, anger, frustration, fear, panic, bad expectations about the financial future, among others. In this sce...
Chess and visual impairment / By Mr. Nicola Nigro
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Counter-Attack Is The Best Defence
Deep in the Siberian forest, in Russia, stands a small hut. Who lives there, is a mystery. Perhaps a ‘Baba-Yaga’, a Russian witch. Perhaps spirits. Josephine, found herself sitting in a dark, frigid room of that hut lit with one dyi...
VITAL TOPICS TO PLAY AN ENDGAME: triangulation and zugzwang
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Italian Game
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