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Attacking with the Isolated Queen's Pawn by Emms From http://www.everymanchess.com/chess/books/Attacking_with_the_Isolated_Queen%27s_P...: Attacking with the Isolated Queen's Pawn John Emms The Isolated Queen's Pawn arises in countle... Started 09/29/09 at 11:06:00 by TN	12	8077	03/28/21 at 14:44:39 By: XChess1971
Aronian Changing federation from ARM to USA I am kinda surprised there is no thread on this one already as the news is several days old already. Levon made the official announcement on his facebook page and Saint Louis Chess Club. https://... Started 03/04/21 at 23:13:19 by trw	7	1130	03/28/21 at 05:30:26 By: an ordinary chessplayer
Books on Evaluation of Positions All I’m looking for books that will help be better evaluate positions, primarily middlegame. I’m looking to develop a process I can utilize during a game to develop or modify a plan. I’m rated ar... Started 03/14/21 at 18:47:27 by D10763	10	1257	03/25/21 at 23:48:46 By: an ordinary chessplayer
Draw or not draw Hi. I came across this article on chessbase. https://en.chessbase.com/post/ecu-what-should-the-arbiter-do The arbiter decided it was a draw although is it? Regards /CbT Started 03/11/21 at 10:49:25 by Confused_by_Theory	4	632	03/12/21 at 20:42:16 By: an ordinary chessplayer
Documentary about Paul Keres It's quite something. https://tinyurl.com/2ewdnzh3 Started 03/11/21 at 20:10:01 by kylemeister	1	473	03/12/21 at 00:37:59 By: Paddy
9th March - Bobby Fischer's birthday I'm celebrating today. I'll watch Pawn Sacrifice soon and I have just finished Bobby Fischer and His World by John Donaldson which I can certainly recommend. In this book I found a touching obituary b... Started 03/09/21 at 10:14:04 by Laramonet	4	710	03/10/21 at 12:37:26 By: LeeRoth
The Study of Great Games and Modern Video Courses Virtually every path of chess learning eventually involves the study of Great Games by past (or current) great players. Often, this all proceeds from the study of books by or about these players. Prog... Started 01/30/21 at 14:54:23 by cathexis	3	724	02/13/21 at 18:18:11 By: msiipola
Kotronias - How to play equal positions Freshly released on Forward Chess, https://forwardchess.com/product/how-to-play-equal-positions Kotronias' newest is about a topic rarely covered in chess literature - how to play "planless"... Started 12/18/20 at 10:09:37 by IsaVulpes	7	1947	12/31/20 at 10:59:34 By: TopNotch
Swapping Wood into the Endgame - to win! Lately, I've begun to see some glimmers of success, whether playing white or black by doing this: Starting conservatively, 1.e4, 1...e5, etc., then begin vigorously, but not recklessly, exchanging pie... Started 12/09/20 at 22:29:38 by cathexis « Pages 1 2 all »	17	2487	12/28/20 at 14:55:10 By: TD
Regarding books on Great Games Greetings & Happy Thanksgiving (early), Recently, I was able to pick up two books that might be over my head in some ways but were too good a deal to pass up. They were: "Test of Time," and "Sorc... Started 11/23/20 at 00:06:20 by cathexis	13	1776	12/25/20 at 06:22:24 By: doefmat
King Hunting with Larry C After breaking through with a nice attack, sometimes the opposing king wriggles out to greener pastures. I've always found that chasing down an exiled king to be an annoying experience. All those che... Started 12/22/20 at 07:29:57 by iggystiv	1	513	12/22/20 at 14:53:40 By: an ordinary chessplayer
Fairly recent books on chess programming? As subject above, are there any valuable, fairly recent books on chess programming, with code samples or complete code (not just general principles on AI, algorithms, etc.)? Started 12/16/20 at 21:47:54 by grandpatzer	4	792	12/17/20 at 11:38:40 By: Pawnpusher
Chrome Extension for use with the Lichess site Hi everyone, Im a developer and I made Chrome Extension for Live Chess Analysis in Lichess.org games. Is really cool if you are streaming or seen another games lives. Unfortunately the exten... Started 12/14/20 at 18:14:00 by pawngun	1	712	12/15/20 at 02:29:01 By: Stigma
Covid protocols and common sense Okay members, see if you can spot a problem in the photo here: https://ruchess.ru/en/news/all/cfm_botvinnik_school_and_mednyi_vsadnik_lead_russ.... Started 11/22/20 at 23:04:29 by Bibs	2	1097	11/23/20 at 01:26:35 By: Bibs
Help in finding a famous Sicilian Poisoned Pawn Hi all. I remember a beautiful miniature by Black in the Najdorf Poisoned Pawn, played by two Jugoslav GMs. It was played a lot of years ago. In an apparently lost position Black ended with ...Rb3!!.... Started 11/08/20 at 14:27:14 by grandpatzer	11	1532	11/19/20 at 13:19:59 By: an ordinary chessplayer
Chessbase discount day today 20201117 Hi. For your information dear forum. The Chessbase discount day is here: https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-big-discount-day-is-here Whenever I've wanted to buy something from chessbase I always reg... Started 11/17/20 at 07:37:45 by Confused_by_Theory	1	588	11/17/20 at 08:03:35 By: TD
Does anybody know which chess set this is? [IMAGE] Started 10/06/20 at 13:23:52 by TD	10	1404	11/14/20 at 14:42:07 By: Ron C
Looking for Direction in Drawing Techniques I have some trouble with it. My tactics books put a "Win Material/Mate in ~" mind set onto me, no surprise. But the only techniques I've come across are forcing self-stalemate by my opponent or insuff... Started 10/29/20 at 00:33:46 by cathexis « Pages 1 2 all »	16	2586	11/03/20 at 13:25:33 By: cathexis
The end of Magnus Carlsen Streak 125 games Today Magnus Carlsen lost in round 5 of the Altibox Norway Chess 2020 classical tournament to GM Jan-Krzystof Duda (POL 2757) which ends his 125 game winning streak. He was undefeated since 8/1/2018 R... Started 10/10/20 at 19:50:14 by trw	5	1066	10/12/20 at 22:33:24 By: trw
Finding a heavy, squat old friend . . . Okay, kind of a strange request. Well over 50 years ago now, at the Canadian Open in Toronto I bought a set of plastic chess pieces. They were extremely heavy; but their best characteristics was tha... Started 10/06/20 at 14:40:40 by Wwqlcw	3	892	10/10/20 at 16:30:16 By: cathexis

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