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I recently played White in a game that began 1.d4 e6 2.e4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Ng8?! reaching this position: https://lichess.org/mXf0MHDi/white#8 Stockfish at depth 40 now prefers the move 5.a3 (and sugg…

Puzzle #aoDb1, at https://lichess.org/training/aoDb1, incorrectly marks an alternative, valid solution as wrong. The official solution, 30...g5, is indeed winning. But so is 30...Rf5, which is apparen…

Katalin Karikó

One possibility is some sort of recall bias. "Every time I forget my umbrella, it rains." (Those being the only occasions that stuck in my head.) This is why careful statistical analyses are important.

At the time of this writing, you won your last three rapid games. So *you* should be telling *us* what you did to break out of a losing streak.

When you file a lawsuit that has a 1/10^8 chance of success, try for an expected value of $1.

@Foxmc It sounds like you're making nice progress. I don't see any reason to be concerned about the pace of improvement.

Nice game, @CHESSPRODIGY_NKR ! If you like the Najdorf, the games of Kasparov and, more recently, Gelfand and Vachier-Lagrave may be worth studying.

First of all, are we sure of the authenticity of this game? I don't see it on chessgames.com, although they do have some other games from CRO-chT Makarska 1994, which are reported as being at classica…

In some lines of the QGD, White develops the knight from g1 to e2 instead of to f3. I'm trying to understand when one is preferable to the other. For example, in one of my recent games I had this posi…