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How Capablanca Won a Dead Level Endgame With Two Plans

From a level rook endgame against three consulting opponents, Capablanca fixed a weak pawn, won it, …FM amazingatlas

How Capablanca Won While His Opponent Had the Passed Pawn

Black had a protected passed pawn three squares from queening, yet Capablanca won the king and pawn …FM amazingatlas

How Capablanca Won a Piece Without Capturing It

Capablanca walled White's bishop in with pawns, then played the whole ending a piece up while the ma…FM amazingatlas

How Capablanca Gave Up the Exchange and Won

Capablanca gave up a rook for a knight on purpose, played most of the game down the exchange, and wo…FM amazingatlas

How Capablanca Won This Endgame a Pawn Down

Playing Black against Kostic, Capablanca gave away a healthy passed pawn on purpose, went a full paw…FM amazingatlas

How Capablanca Marched His King Into the Enemy Camp to Win

With the queens gone, Capablanca stopped hiding his king and marched it the whole length of the boar…FM amazingatlas

How Capablanca Sacrificed a Pawn to Put Marshall in Zugzwang

Capablanca gave up a pawn to make his pieces active and Marshall's useless, until the great attacker…FM amazingatlas

When Capablanca Played Like Five Different Masters

Chernev called it one of the greatest masterpieces in chess, because in one game Capablanca plays in…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…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…IM datajunkie

The best non-chess book I’ve read for chess improvement

The Will to Keep Winning by Daigo UmeharaFM 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…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…FM BuendiaChess

8/9 by Firouzja in the Blitz!!!!

In the Rapid section Firouzja and Pragg ended in the first position but in the first day of blitz al…IM datajunkie

10 chess books that changed how I see the game

Are chess books still relevant?FM BuendiaChess

Pragg scores 3/3 to be Leader in Croatia

In the first 2 days of rapid in the Croatia Grand Chess Tourn Praggnanandhaa scored the half of the …FM BuendiaChess

Fioruzja is Leading Croatia GCT

With 4 wins in 2 draws Alireza Firouzja is on the top of the laderboard in the rapic secition of the…IM nikhildixit

Road to Grandmaster – Part 2

Road to Grandmasterkhoigambit12345

khoigambit12345, or KG on STUDIES

In this blog, I will show you how I use studies and how I rate studies nowadays.Benedictine

Chess Survey: The Results

The Results Surprised MeStephaneLam

️ IOCA Blitz Online Tournament – 6/9 & Valuable Lessons!

️ IOCA Blitz Online Tournament – 6/9 & Valuable Lessons!CPBchess

Estructuras de Peones: El Peón Pasado (Parte 1)

Hace poco sorprendió saber que Ivan Sokolov (quien trabajó con los jóvenes ases del ajedrez de Uzbeq…FM BuendiaChess

The Tiger of Madras Still Roars

Vishi Anand camed back for a elite tournament to play the rapid and blitz world team championship in…FM BuendiaChess

DRAGON CHILLING WORLD CHAMPIONS!!!!!! Blitz Full Analysis

Double Gold medal for the Chinese team with the return to the elite of Ding Liren being the highligh…