Top new questions this week:
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On page 6 of this PDF, it mentions the existence of a legal position such that whoever moves first must be checkmated in exactly 2 moves. Can someone please show me this position?
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A computer like Stockfish can evaluate the rating performance of individual players based on a game. Why don't we take the average rating evaluation of a player's games to measure the player's ...
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Is there a name for puzzles where the goal is to avoid being checkmated in x moves?
An example is this puzzle:
[Title "White to play and avoid being mated on or before move 4 (there is a unique ...
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[Title "André Hazebrouck. Die Schwalbe 47 10/1977 4. Preis"]
[FEN "r1b1k2r/P2p4/2p1n2p/ppPq4/1np5/p7/P2PP3/R3K2R w - - 0 1"]
а) h#2,5
b) h#2,5 (AP) 2 solutions
What is meant by ...
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This is a purely hypothetical question that could give me some insight into chess history because I am by no means an expert in the latter.
From what year would e.g. the world champion or the ...
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I'm running Chess Position Trainer in Windows 11 through a VM on a MacBook air with the m2 processor. The animation of the pieces is incredibly slow and the program overall is slow. Does anyone have ...
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I am trying to track a very special proof game I saw many years ago when I learned about proof games (a board position is given, and the challenge is to find the unique sequence of moves from the ...
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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My great fail is that I cannot learn opening or initial play.
Normally I only play when I can connect to my mobile app (Chess Free on iOS), and play at a very low level (adjusted as a single bar), ...
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I have heard many people saying, “Hah! I beat Stockfish,” and one saying, “I am the best chess player ever! I beat Stockfish.” So I wonder if it is possible, just to know whether I should try to beat ...
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I have been playing on lichess for a while and it strikes me how low ratings are compared to other rating systems. This is not to say that players are weaker, I have quite the opposite feeling, but ...
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I was playing a game with a friend online. A situation came up where he put me in check with his bishop, and I moved my rook to block it. His king was on the g file and my rook was on g2. The website ...
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Many people suggest tactical exercises as the best form of study for this purpose but I find that it only attacks the problem from one dimension (not making the strongest in a position). Analyzing my ...
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I currently play at around a 1600 level, and have stagnated in terms of rating improvements for quite some time.
I have always played chess recreationally, occasionally doing tactics puzzles here ...
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Recently IM Eric Rosen played the Cow Opening every game in Titled Tuesday, scoring 6.5/11 and increasing his rating. He streamed it and put it on YouTube. It is a Hippo style opening which can play ...
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Can you answer these questions?
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I've been trying to find a particular clip which I remember from a while ago (or the game associated to this clip).
There was some commentary, I think part of a broadcast / commentary associated to ...
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When I was reading the Laws of Chess, I saw that there was a problem because, in Appendix C-10, it only talked about simple disambiguation. What about double disambiguation?
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In a recent game I played 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 (Semi-slav), then as White played Bf4 because I didn't know any theory. Lichess analysis board says this is a non-trivial opening ...
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