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13 Jul 2026
CPBchess
FINALES DE CABALLOS. Caballo vs peones. Increíble milagro: un Caballo salvador
Un post importante acerca del metodo de razonamiento (a manera de análisis con nodos) para lograr de…
13 Jul 2026
Chuckmeister3D
I made a free, open-source tool that finds your best Lichess games
A small side project I’ve been working on over the last few weeks. It searches your Lichess games an…
13 Jul 2026
FM
amazingatlas
Three Moves Where Capablanca Was Wrong
Capablanca won this game, but the engine corrects him three times, and the position his opponent res…
12 Jul 2026
Rqtte
Chess Improvement Journey | Week 7
The training was horrible, the game felt like a brilliancy
12 Jul 2026
IM
Lizard1
Schliemann Defense: The ...d6 Setup
Following my previous Anti-Schliemann article, here's my recommended approach against Black's ...d6 …
12 Jul 2026
RajjSinghh
Learning from 4545 - Being Your Own Coach
I've played in the Lichess 4545 league for a few seasons now, usually to poor results. I wanted to w…
12 Jul 2026
Bald-Genious-OP
Hard Chess Puzzles
Challenge your mind with exciting chess puzzles every day. Improve your tactics, calculation, and ch…
12 Jul 2026
FM
amazingatlas
Capablanca Was Up a Queen and the Game Lasted 31 More Moves
Winning your opponent's queen is not the same as winning the game. This king hunt shows what to do w…
11 Jul 2026
IM
datajunkie
The best non-chess book I’ve read for chess improvement
The Will to Keep Winning by Daigo Umehara
11 Jul 2026
Mike-Shea
Going for it
My previous two games in this tournament demonstrated a bit of hesitation and fear. Can I overcome t…
11 Jul 2026
FM
amazingatlas
Choose Your Endgame: The Master Habit That Wins From Move 19
Capablanca does not accept the endgame he is handed, he steers into a bishop-versus-knight ending an…
10 Jul 2026
OnTheQueenside
May 2026 Women's Rankings: Trouble at the top?
New No. 1 soon?
10 Jul 2026
PrefabShangrila
Adding Call of Duty-inspired Gamification to Lichess
Two years in an alternate reality where ELO no longer mattered
10 Jul 2026
Pastanoob11
My Road to 2000; Part VIII
This is Part VIII of my Road to 2000 Series, where I try to reach 2000 ELO before the year ends in b…
10 Jul 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Two Endgame Plans: How Capablanca Wins With Just One Idea
Two queen sacrifices, one romantic and one purely positional, and a single endgame idea that ties th…
10 Jul 2026
Kaan_Burak
Math + Chess = Chessatics? Dude, why math!
Hello guys, if you read the heading, you can say "Bro we are just playing chess, why "math" is writi…
10 Jul 2026
OesterreichSchach
Zwei EM-Medaillen für Österreichs Jugend
FM Peter Balint und CM Chicheng Leon Chen werden jeweils Vizeeuropameister im Schnellschach
9 Jul 2026
Mike-Shea
Playing scared
It's been a while. Things got busy, and since my job involves a lot of writing these days, it's been…
9 Jul 2026
NM
ZugAddict
With all due respect, there's got to be a better way to view games on lichess
Behold my inept attempt to make something useful
9 Jul 2026
Fire-work
I made a program to find craziest sacrifices in a row. Here is what it found
"Aren't those 2 bishops our last hope? Surely not, we can sacrifice them to create a perfect checkma…
9 Jul 2026
FDAIMAN
Defensa Petrof, segura y complicada a la vez
Ante un vacío de conocimiento de esta defensa se realiza un repaso de sus ataques y recursos defensi…
9 Jul 2026
FM
MattyDPerrine
Your Opponent Gives You a Gift Every Move (Most Players Never Open It)
Most players ask what their opponent is threatening. The better question is what their move stopped …
9 Jul 2026
FM
amazingatlas
The Move That Converted Reti: How Capablanca's Bishop Beat the Knight
Capablanca Best Chess Endings Series, FM Nicholas Van Der Nat, ChessExcellence.
9 Jul 2026
RuyLopez1000
History of the Knight: Increase Your Horsepower
An Exploration.
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