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Ah -- I found it: under "Board Geometry."

I was playing last night and somehow (using the touchpad) made the Lichess board significantly smaller. This was not a case of zooming out. I tried clearing my Chrome browser, but that made no differe…

Yes -- @sheckley666 is correct. Perpetual check and threefold repetition are entirely valid defensive measures. One must avoid situations where lower-rated or worse-off players can employ them.

I agree with David Bronstein: Black's h-pawn.

In no particular order ... Bobby Fischer, My 60 Memorable Games Silman's Endgame Course Peter Romanovsky, Soviet Middlegame Technique Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics Yochanan Afek, Practical Chess Beauty …

If you can take losing in this way, it is potentially useful, but only up to a point. Being too satisfied with losing contributes to a passive and lethargic approach to play. Losing begets losing bege…

My 60 and Zurich 53 are both excellent choices. The first part of Kasparov's My Great Predecessors is also very good.

There are a lot of good suggestions here. In my view, the best approach is to work on tactics every day (five or ten Lichess puzzles will suffice), to study endgames (Silman's book is an excellent pla…

@Fmuror02 -- Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual is indeed the best, but it's daunting, especially for players under 2000. A few other excellent endgame books are Silman's Complete Endgame Course, 100 Endgames…

I don't have strong preferences, but I do enjoy the late middlegame -- and rook endgames.