- Beersden 1 Roebers, round 5, Wijk aan Zee challengers divisionJanuary 20, 2023
- Double Bishops’ Gambit 12 — The first chance to play it over the board!December 17, 2022
- Double Bishops’ Gambit 11: Pencils downDecember 7, 2022
- Double Bishops’ Gambit 10: Final examNovember 26, 2022
- About the Sicilian: 3. The Lasker-Pilnik-Pelikan-Sveshnikov
Also: Carlsen quits while he’s aheadJuly 21, 2022 - Miniatures happenJune 25, 2022
- “If any” in ‘daily’ gamesJune 24, 2022
- In a tournament for seniors, playing like a kid who hasn’t learned anythingJune 22, 2022
- Building Lc0 from source is now a breeze, whereas it used to be a painJune 21, 2022
- About the Sicilian: 2. The Najdorf VariationJune 7, 2022
- About the Sicilian: 1. IntroductionMay 31, 2022
- Double Bishops’ Gambit 9: Morphy’s most instructive game (this will be on the exam)May 5, 2022
- Perhaps the only guide to good chess you need, but one you will likely reject, because that’s how chessplayers areJune 21, 2021
- StudiesJanuary 10, 2021
- P != 1.0December 29, 2020
- Once every 30 years feels about rightDecember 25, 2020
- 18th Holly Heisman Memorial this weekendDecember 8, 2020
- Are the lichess.org computers engineered to throw games after winning lopsidedly?December 2, 2020
- Welcome to 30, Magnus CarlsenDecember 2, 2020
- Some chessplayers make it look easyNovember 26, 2020
- Ancient proverb, modern televisionNovember 25, 2020
- “The Queen’s Gambit’s” unbelievable Easter eggNovember 23, 2020
- Mr. Shaibel the janitor was an atrocious chess teacher.November 13, 2020
- Mate-in-3 problem from The Queen’s Gambit E06November 13, 2020
- Double Bishops’ Gambit 8: White’s Third Obstacle: The Obstructive Pawn PairNovember 3, 2020
- Vote.November 3, 2020
- The most odd rook pawn plus “wrong-colored bishop” endingNovember 2, 2020
- Netflix miniseries “The Queen’s Gambit” PSA no. 2: Capablanca’s ‘My Chess Career’November 2, 2020
- What you must know about the Netflix series based on the Tevis book “The Queen’s Gambit”November 2, 2020
- CWAP Game 7: Lasker-Van Trotsenburg, Netherlands 1908November 1, 2020
- Your opponents aren’t very good at thisOctober 31, 2020
- Double Bishops’ Gambit 7: This Will Be on the TestOctober 30, 2020
- Simple endgame lessons from the US championshipOctober 29, 2020
- Accused of cheating after playing only well enoughOctober 28, 2020
- The exceptional rook pawn, reduxOctober 27, 2020
- CWAP Game 6: Krush-Abrahamyan, 2020 US women’s championshipOctober 26, 2020
- Technical difficultiesOctober 24, 2020
- Stockfish mocks us yet again for our notion of having played wellOctober 21, 2020
- Capablanca-Euwe 1931 candidates’ match, Game 4October 20, 2020
- A First Book of Morphy to be translated into French and Spanish, so here’s that missing textOctober 19, 2020
- At the chessboard, there are no points to be talliedOctober 18, 2020
- Double Bishops’ Gambit 6: White’s second obstacle—2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4—how to develop the king rookOctober 17, 2020
- K+P vs. K: Occupying the squares ahead of the pawnOctober 16, 2020
- CWAP Game 5: Raclauskiene-Menchik, Buenos Aires 1939October 15, 2020
- Stamma’s gambit, Capablanca’s checkmateOctober 14, 2020
- You can’t play at a 2200 level until you’re unafraid of ghosts, and ensure that your own attacking moves aren’t phantomsOctober 13, 2020
- Earned a ‘C’ on my chess homework!October 12, 2020
- K+P vs. K: One rank makes all the difference in the world. Well, half the difference.October 11, 2020
- Capablanca-Euwe 1931 candidates’ match, Game 3October 10, 2020
- Endgame following Bishop’s Gambit: Fischer-Cunningham, Houston 1964October 9, 2020
- Two talkative friends play chessOctober 8, 2020
- Endgame following Bishop’s Gambit: J. Polgar-Barua, 1993 Biel InterzonalOctober 7, 2020
- This is everything I know about chess.October 6, 2020
- Double Bishops’ Gambit 5: White’s First Obstacle: …Qh4+October 5, 2020
- King-and-pawn vs. King: The ‘O’ WordOctober 4, 2020
- CWAP Game 4: From-Steinitz, Paris 1867October 3, 2020
- Double Bishops’ Gambit 4: Almost MadnessOctober 2, 2020
- Guess the moves in two Capablanca games; will you guess better at “playing good chess” or “playing bad chess well”?October 1, 2020
- Never mind what Lasker said. When the positional logic leads you to a good move, play it.September 30, 2020
- The “hello world” of king-and-pawn vs. king endgamesSeptember 29, 2020
- Capablanca-Euwe 1931 candidates’ match, Game 2September 28, 2020
- CWAP Game 3: Sich-Steinitz, London 1871September 27, 2020
- Double Bishops’ Gambit 3: Openings Like MorphySeptember 26, 2020
- One thing chess teachers neglect to mention about “the rule of the square”September 25, 2020
- CWAP Game 2: Morphy-Owen, London 1858September 23, 2020
- Double Bishops’ Gambit 2: This Will Be on the TestSeptember 22, 2020
- Capablanca-Euwe 1931 candidates’ match, Game 1September 21, 2020
- 3rd from the end.September 20, 2020
- We cannot play ‘good chess’ like Capablanca and Carlsen, but we can learn to play ‘bad chess’ well.September 19, 2020
- This is 2nd-to-last.September 18, 2020
- CWAP Game 1: Morphy-Lewis, Philadelphia 1859September 17, 2020
- Baltic Defense gambit variation 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Bf5 3.Qb3 e5September 17, 2020
- Double Bishops’ Gambit 1: Don’t Throw Your Opening Books AwaySeptember 16, 2020
- World champions vs. CWAP (Common, Weak, Airy Pawn-structure): IntroductionSeptember 15, 2020
- This is next-to-the-end.September 14, 2020
- Achieving playable middlegames with The Double Bishops’ Gambit: IntroductionSeptember 13, 2020
- This is the end.September 13, 2020