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Another “secret garden” move (and now you got that old Depeche Mode song running through my head) is for Black to decline the rook sacrifice with 24...Qxf4 Maybe not quite as sound as declining with t…

I’ve posted on my personal (no ads, no cookies) blog an overview of this game: https://www.samiam.org/blog/2022-07-15.html

I read books—right now MCO-15 (Modern Chess Openings, 15th edition, which is dated but still useful), Nigel Davies’s book on the Grünfeld, and The Mammoth Book of the World’s Best Chess Games—as well …

I’m a bit disappointed Nakamura lost his first game. Maybe he shouldn’t be playing 1. f3 then 2. Kf2 against patzers like me. Edit: Magnus gives Naka a hard time for his play at https://twitter.com/Ma…

I would like to see something like this for Morphy numbers. I would also like to see bots removed from the links; I like having a person for each and every link in the chain. I know how to calculate b…

> so similar to antichess They have that, too: https://lidraughts.org/variant/antidraughts

Since people are asking how draughts is different from checkers, check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_draughts To save you a click: * 10x10 board * Captures are mandatory. One m…

No need for a variant. You can even respond to a check with checkmate! https://lichess.org/DrC87aK3#80 In terms of this variant, I think we need fewer, not more draws. There are a lot of positions whe…

Since someone asked me this in a private message: MCO-15 is Modern Chess Openings, 15th edition.

1. Chess is a very hard game to play. 2. If a given mating problem or other position is not clear to us, that doesn’t mean the problem or position is bad, that means there is still a lot more chess wo…